
??? In the U.S. News and World Report's list of the country???s best national universities, Stanford was tied with MIT and Caltech for fourth overall.
??? Among the companies Stanford faculty and alumni have helped create are Charles Schwab & Company, Cisco Systems, eBay, Gap, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo!
??? Stanford has one of the most distinguished faculties in the nation. Among the scholars are 18 Nobel laureates, 23 MacArthur Fellows, four Pulitzer Prize winners and three Presidential Medal of Freedom Winners.
??? More than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students live in the 78 residential facilities on campus.
??? There are an estimated 12,000 bicycles in use on the Stanford campus.