Stanford Facts: The Seven Schools

Stanford offers the following degrees: B.A., B.S., B.A.S., M.A., M.S., Ph.D., D.M.A., M.D., M.B.A., J.D., J.S.D., J.S.M., LL.M., M.F.A., M.L.S., M.L.A., M.P.P., ENG

Graduate School of Business

Dean: Garth Saloner
The new campus for the Graduate School of Business is under construction and expected to be completed in early 2011 and will provide greater flexibility for academic programs. The Knight Management Center campus is expected to become a focal point for programs and activities, drawing participants from across Stanford. In addition to the MBA and doctoral degrees, the school offers the Stanford Sloan Master's Program for mid-career managers and enrolls nearly 2,500 annually in executive education programs. The school supports the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the Center for Social Innovation, the Center for Leadership Development and Research and the Center for Global Business and the Economy. It also is involved in interdisciplinary programs, including those with the d.school, the schools of Medicine and Law, and the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. Call (650) 723-2146, e-mail gsb_info@gsb.stanford.edu or visit http://www.gsb.stanford.edu.

School of Earth Sciences

Dean: Pamela Matson
The School of Earth Sciences is home to departments and programs that focus on the study of the planet Earth. Distinguished faculty teach and conduct research in areas including geology, the environment, energy, natural hazards, continental dynamics, oceans and climate, biogeochemical cycles, Earth surface processes and fresh water. Faculty and students examine the Earth’s solid and fluid components from atomic size to global, and from the age of the Earth to the near-term past and immediate future. They address the development and use of resources, the consequences of human activities on the environment and our understanding of global systems. The school has 55 faculty, 150 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. It offers Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Engineer, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Visit http://earthsci.stanford.edu or call (650) 723-2544.

School of Education

Dean: Deborah Stipek
The Stanford University School of Education, with an enrollment of about 380 graduate students, is a leader in groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary research and analysis that help shape educational practice and policy. Faculty integrate practice and research by working collaboratively with administrators, teachers and policy leaders around the world, and they contribute to theoretical and methodological innovations in the social sciences. The school develops the knowledge, wisdom and imagination of its students to enable them to take leadership positions as teachers, researchers, administrators and policy makers. School of Education students benefit from an exposure to real-world challenges and involvement in problem-solving collaborations with practitioners and policy makers. The School of Education runs East Palo Alto Academy, its own K-12 public charter school in the neighboring East Palo Alto community. The school also has sustained collaborations with organizations serving youth in several Bay Area communities and ongoing partnerships with district and school leaders. The School of Education offers the Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts and Master of Arts with teaching credential. Call (650) 723-2109 or visit http://ed.stanford.edu.

School of Engineering

Dean: James Plummer
More than 4,000 students, 25 percent of all Stanford students, are enrolled in the School of Engineering. The school has nine departments, more than 240 faculty members and some 30 research centers. Entrepreneurship education is offered through the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Most departments offer degree programs at all levels of study. Undergraduates are admitted to the university, not the school, and may choose engineering as a major by their junior year. Graduate students are evaluated and admitted by each department; closing dates for filing applications vary by department. Co-terminal students are admitted early to a graduate program and can study for both bachelor’s and master’s degrees simultaneously. Call (650) 723-3938 or visit http://soe.stanford.edu.

School of Humanities and Sciences

Dean: Richard Saller
The School of Humanities and Sciences is Stanford’s largest school, awarding nearly 80 percent of undergraduate degrees. The school has more than 50 departments and interdisciplinary degree programs that span the humanities, arts, languages and literatures, social sciences, mathematics and the physical and life sciences. The school’s graduate programs lead to Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts, Master of Science or Master of Fine Arts degrees.

Programs and research centers in the school include the Abbasi Islamic Studies Program, Cantor Arts Center, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Film and Media Studies Program, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Hopkins Marine Station, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute and the Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies. Visit http://humsci.stanford.edu.

Law School

Dean: Larry Kramer
Stanford Law School combines classic and innovative education to prepare students for an interconnected, global world. There are about 70 faculty members, including clinical, senior lecturers and emeriti, and about 180 new J.D. students annually. The student-to-faculty ratio is 8.6 to 1. The school offers 20 joint degree programs in such areas as Bioengineering, Business, Computer Science, Economics, Education, Electrical Engineering, Environment and Resources, Health Research and Policy, History, International and Comparative and Area Studies, International Policy Studies, Management Science and Engineering, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy and Sociology as well as countless customized joint degrees. Joint degree programs are also offered with Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Johns Hopkins’Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Ten clinical programs allow students to undertake the roles and responsibilities of practicing lawyers, and 20 programs and centers offer opportunities for research and policy-oriented study. The Master of Laws (LL.M.), Master of the Science of Law (J.S.M.) and Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) degrees are offered. Call (650) 723-2465 or visit http://www.law.stanford.edu.

School of Medicine

Dean: Philip Pizzo
The School of Medicine, the oldest medical school in the West, encourages intellectual diversity in students interested in developing a scholarly, investigative approach to problems in medicine and science. The school has more than 800 faculty, 1,450 postdoctoral scholars, 465 M.D. students and 586 Ph.D. and M.S. candidates. Medical students gain clinical experience at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Ph.D. programs offer interdisciplinary research opportunities with faculty from throughout the university. Each year, faculty receive grants and contracts totaling more than $300 million in support for research, teaching and patient care. Call (650) 723-6861 or visit http://med.stanford.edu.

Stanford Continuing Studies

Dean: Charles Junkerman
Each quarter, Continuing Studies offers more than 90 courses, workshops and events to more than 2,500 adult members of the Stanford and surrounding communities. Courses range from archaeology to physics, languages to literature. It also offers the Master of Liberal Arts Program, a Stanford graduate degree program for adults who seek a broad, interdisciplinary course of study in the liberal arts. The program, taught by Stanford faculty, takes four to five years to complete. Call (650) 725-2650.

Summer Session

The Summer Session is the only academic quarter during which Stanford offers open enrollment for university classes. Joining current Stanford undergraduate and graduate students in the Summer Session are exceptional high school juniors and seniors and visiting college and university students from around the world. About 2,000 students enroll in Summer Session. Call (650) 723-3109.