Experience life at Stanford, the largest university campus in the US, and one of the top research universities in the world. Students on campus will have access to historic Spanish architecture and world-class facilities including the Cantor Arts Center and the Rodin Sculpture Garden. With guest speakers including Stanford Professors Dr. Chris Bobonich in Philosophy and Dr. Rob in Political Science, our Stanford program features a reading list focused on philosophical questions raised by classic texts.
Stanford University opened its doors in 1891, and has been one of the finest and most highly-regarded American universities ever since. Its 8,000-acre campus is one of the most beautiful in the nation, offering room to explore as well as carefully-crafted residential and academic spaces for study and comfortable California living.
Stanford University With an $18.7 billion endowment Stanford has access to numerous world-class research resources.
The school’s 1,189 acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve lets scientists study ecosystems first hand. Its 150-foot radio telescope, nicknamed “The Dish,” studies the ionosphere.
Stanford also boasts a 315-acre habitat reserve which is actively trying to bring back the endangered California tiger salamander. And the SLAC Accelerator Laboratory actively advances the U.S. Departments of Energy’s research.
Stanford is also affiliated with the prestigious Hoover Institution, which is one of the nation leading social, political, and economic thinks tanks.
But it takes more than just great laboratories and facilities to build a great research center. Stanford also has some of the finest minds in the world working for it. The school’s faculty currently include 22 Nobel Laureates, 52 members of the American Philosophical Society, three Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, 158 National Academy of Science members, five Pulitzer Prize winners, and 27 MacArthur Fellows.
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- The Great Books Summer Program has been privileged to make its West Coast home at Stanford University for over a decade.
Students who come for two, three or four weeks will be able to experience entirely new academic content each session they attend – new reading, fresh lectures and unique speakers and guests. Also unique to the multi-week programs are the weekend excursions. Taking place on the Saturday in between sessions, all campers head out to an exciting California location. In past summers our students at Stanford have visited the Monterey Peninsula including Cannery Row and The Monterey Bay Aquarium. They also visited the California Academy of Sciences and took in an Oakland A's game.
Traveling to Stanford
Stanford University is located in Palo Alto, California and is less than a thirty-minute drive from both the San Francisco and San Jose airport.
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