Value74/100
Excellent evidence81/100 profile coverage
Predominantly direct. Missing lenses stay blank and do not become low scores.
Admissions100
Value100
Career65
Experience85
Location55
Scorecard
A balanced read, not one ranking.
Academic94
Career100
Evidence coverage81
About the location
See the city around the campus.
Drag to explore. Select a place for its name and distance from campus.
Browse nearby places as a list
Get to know Stanford
A mix of mapped places and local activities to explore—not a popularity ranking.
Life beyond the classroom
A feel for Stanford.
The seasons, at a glance
Warm summers, chilly winter nights.
Average daily highs & lows · °C · 1991–2020
Average highAverage low
Monthly breakdown & weather definitions
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 14.9° | 4.7° | 9.3 |
| Feb | 16.6° | 5.8° | 9.1 |
| Mar | 18.5° | 7.0° | 9.4 |
| Apr | 20.3° | 8.1° | 4.9 |
| May | 22.7° | 10.2° | 2.9 |
| Jun | 26.0° | 12.0° | 0.9 |
| Jul | 27.2° | 13.7° | 0.0 |
| Aug | 27.1° | 13.6° | 0.2 |
| Sep | 26.3° | 12.4° | 0.5 |
| Oct | 23.7° | 9.9° | 2.5 |
| Nov | 18.2° | 6.6° | 6.3 |
| Dec | 14.8° | 4.6° | 9.3 |
Wet day: at least 0.01 inches (0.254 mm) of precipitation, including melted snow. This is not a rain-only count. Snowy day: at least 0.1 inches (2.54 mm) of new snowfall, not existing snow cover. Annual counts sum monthly average day counts; rare events may round to zero.
Highs and lows are averages of daily maximum and minimum temperatures, not record extremes. These are published 30-year climate normals, not a forecast. Recent years can be warmer or otherwise differ. Season labels summarise June–August highs and December–February lows.
Weather station: REDWOOD CITY, CA US, approximately 8.2 km from Stanford University. Nearby station conditions can differ from campus, particularly with elevation or coastal differences. Retrieved 2026-09-07.
Weather data: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals · U.S. public-domain government data. Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Temperature units converted and monthly day-count normals summed by Univised; no NOAA endorsement implied.
Make the city yours
What’s around town?
A sample of mapped places within 5 km of Stanford University. Browse by your kind of afternoon—or night out.
Theatre & performance
9 mapped- Bishop Auditorium
- Frost Amphitheatre
- Bing Concert Hall
6 more mapped places
- CEMEX Auditorium
- NVIDIA Auditorium
- Children's Theater
- Guild
- Performing Arts Center
- Menlo Atherton Performing Arts Center
Cinema
3 mapped- Aquarius Theatre
- Stanford Theater
- CineArts Palo Alto Square
Museums & galleries
17 mapped- Stanford Art Gallery
- Hoover Tower
- Cantor Arts Center
14 more mapped places
- Anderson Collection at Stanford University
- Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden
- Node
- Portola Art Gallery
- Pamela Walsh Gallery
- Palo Alto History Museum
- Museum of American Heritage
- Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo
- Atherton Fine Art
- The Main Gallery
- Sense Fine Art
- Simon Breitbard
- Peabody Fine Art Gallery and Framing
- West Bay Model Railroad Association
Stadiums & arenas
9 mapped- Taube Tennis Center
- Angell Field
- Stanford Stadium
6 more mapped places
- Sunken Diamond Stadium
- Stanford Beach Volleyball Stadium
- Laird Q. Cagan Stadium
- Boyd & Jill Smith Family Stadium
- Steuber Rugby Stadium
- Ray Field
Parks & green spaces
58 mapped- Werry Park
- Cameron Park
- Frenchman's Park
55 more mapped places
- Lathrop Park
- El Camino Park
- Weisshaar Park
- Mayfield Park
- Peers Park
- Tower Well park
- Scott Park
- Heritage Park
- El Palo Alto Park
- Kite Hill Park
- Bowling Green Park
- Jack W. Lyle Park
- Johnson Park
- Jerry Bowden Park
- Nealon Park
- Timothy Hopkins Creekside Park
- Burgess Park
- Tinker Park
- Rinconada Park
- Camp Fremont Park
- Stanford Hills Park
- Menlo Park Civic Center Complex
- Boulware Park
- Eleanor Pardee Park
- Bol Park
- Seminary Oaks Park
- Hoover Park
- Willow Oaks Park
- Sharon Hills Park
- Sharon Park
- Bridge Pop Park
- Robles Park
- Holbook Palmer Park
- Holbrook-Palmer Park
- Briones Park
- Henry W. Seale Park
- Bell Street Park
- Joel Davis Park
- Reading Park
- Greer Park
- Mitchell Park
- Terman Park
- Lasuen Mall
- Koret Plaza
- Galvez Mall
- Meyer Green
- Escondido Mall
- Lomita Mall
- El Camino Field
- Lytton Plaza
- Cogswell Plaza
- Stanford/Palo Alto Community Playing Fields
- Packard Grove
- Merrill Street Plaza
- Cartan Athletic Fields
About this local snapshot
These are named places in OpenStreetMap, not event listings or a popularity ranking. Examples prioritise named parks and gardens in the green-space category, then distance from Stanford University. Mapping coverage varies: counts do not measure how lively a city is, and an omitted category does not mean there are no venues. Opening status has not been checked for every place; check access and hours before visiting. Snapshot: 2026-09-07.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Filtered and grouped by Univised.
Applying here
Requirements & deadlines
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Official university website ↗Rankings
Reputation & career strength.
Univised career benchmarks
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 1.00× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 1.00×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.210. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 1.00× to 1.00×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 2.57× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 2.73×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.908. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 2.44× to 2.66×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 2.53× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 6.32×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.288. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 1.90× to 3.68×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 1.56× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 5.59×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.122. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 1.30× to 2.18×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 1.10× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 2.02×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.100. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 1.05× to 1.22×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 0.97× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 0.77×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.115. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 0.94× to 0.99×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
Career ratings adjust for evidence strength. Compatible-school estimates are used only where supported; a neutral fallback means unknown, not measured average performance. These are not hiring odds or degree-quality measurements.
Creative paths
Where creative careers have started.
Documented education links for notable people—not graduation counts or hiring odds. This initial Wikidata snapshot samples up to 500 links per field.
Stanford University
22 distinct people in this snapshot
Acting · 2
Design · 7
- Frances Butler
- Michael Stemmle
- Dori Tunstall
- A. Lawrence KocherEmployer history: Black Mountain College
Journalism · 9
- Graham TurnerEmployer history: British Broadcasting Corporation, The Daily Telegraph
- Raymond R. Wong
- Clinton D. McKinnon
- Lydia Adams-Williams
Writing · 7
- Lydia Adams-Williams
- William SposatoEmployer history: Foreign Policy
- Mira Balberg
- Celia Morris
University context
A little more perspective.
Campus community
Faith & belonging
No reported institutional religious affiliation
Institutional affiliation does not describe students’ individual beliefs. A verified campus-wide religious breakdown is not available in this dataset.
Campus experience
Campus ratings and verifiable strengths.
Industry strengths
Observed employment evidence where supported; otherwise ranking-informed or comparable-school estimates. These school-level ratings do not verify programme availability or hiring probability.
Sports snapshot
Soccer WomenArchived rank #2 · 20-1-4
OutdoorTrack MenArchived rank #3
Tennis WomenArchived rank #3 · 19 - 2
Soccer MenArchived rank #5 · 11-4-5
Swimming MenArchived rank #5
Volleyball WomenArchived rank #5 · 29-4
Swimming WomenArchived rank #7
Softball WomenArchived rank #8 · 36-10
Degrees
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Chemical EngineeringDoctoral Degree$163,260 Chemical EngineeringGraduate/Professional Certificate$84,653 Chemical EngineeringMaster's Degree$99,517 ChemistryBachelors Degree$34,777 ChemistryDoctoral Degree$111,996 ChemistryMaster's Degree$55,108 Civil EngineeringBachelors Degree$66,869 Civil EngineeringDoctoral Degree$87,754 Civil EngineeringGraduate/Professional CertificateView degree Civil EngineeringMaster's Degree$80,276 Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and LinguisticsBachelors Degree$38,828 Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and LinguisticsDoctoral Degree$49,748 Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and LinguisticsMaster's Degree$44,093 Cognitive ScienceBachelors Degree$92,632 Cognitive ScienceMaster's Degree$52,941 Communication and Media StudiesBachelors Degree$46,328 Communication and Media StudiesDoctoral Degree$61,814 Communication and Media StudiesMaster's Degree$81,702 Computer ScienceBachelors Degree$136,499 Computer ScienceDoctoral Degree$106,421 Computer ScienceMaster's Degree$168,942 Design and Applied ArtsMaster's Degree$46,936 Drama/Theatre Arts and StagecraftBachelors Degree$24,798 Drama/Theatre Arts and StagecraftDoctoral Degree$41,565 Drama/Theatre Arts and StagecraftMaster's Degree$35,927 East Asian Languages, Literatures, and LinguisticsBachelors Degree$38,828 East Asian Languages, Literatures, and LinguisticsDoctoral Degree$49,748 East Asian Languages, Literatures, and LinguisticsMaster's Degree$44,093 Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population BiologyDoctoral Degree$61,144 Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population BiologyMaster's Degree$64,586
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