STANFORD BY THE NUMBERS
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THE STUDENTS
Undergraduates: 6,524 (3,698 men, 2,826 women)
1986 freshman applicants: 16,000 for 1,550 places
Applicants with 4.0 grade-point averages: 2,720
Graduate students: 5,799 (4,151 men, 1,648 women)
Faculty members: 1,315 Full professors: 700
Non-teaching employees: 7,015
STUDENT HONORS
Rhodes Scholars: 57
Marshall Scholars: 26
FACULTY HONORS
Nobel Prize: 9 (4 more at Hoover Institution)
Pulitzer Prize: 5
Nat. Academy of Sciences members: 80 (plus 3 at Hoover)
National Medal of Science winners: 11 (plus 1 at Hoover)
Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sci.: 124 (plus 10 at Hoover)
Nat. Acad. of Engineering members: 44
Nat. Acad. of Educ. members: 10 (plus 3 at Hoover)
Amer. Philosophical Soc. members: 22 (plus 3 at Hoover)
MacArthur Found. grant recipients: 8
MISCELLANEOUS
Library holdings: 5,447,000 volumes (8th largest among U.S. universities)
Endowment: $1.5 billion (5th largest among American universities)
Annual budget: $300 million ($787.2 million, counting medical schools and hospitals)
Undergraduate tuition: $11,208
Estimated cost of an undergraduate year: $17,458 (includes tuition, room and board, books and supplies, plus $1,000 in personal expenses; transportation extra)
Financial aid: $30 million (all but $2 million from university sources)
Undergraduates receiving financial aid: 65%
Freshmen who graduate within five years: 86%
ATHLETICS
Annual athletic budget: $18 million
Intercollegiate teams, men and women: 29
Teams participating in post-season play, 1985-86: 20
Teams finishing in top 10 in their sport in the country: 16
National champions: 4 (men’s and women’s tennis, men’s swimming, men’s water polo)
Football record, 1986: won 8, lost 4; lost to Clemson in Gator Bowl
Average high school grade-point average of football and basketball players receiving full scholarships: 3.31
Combined verbal and math SAT scores for the same players: 1,050 (200 points higher than closest competitor in the Pac10)
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