Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) is dedicated to empowering principled leaders to change lives, change organizations, and change the world. Distinguished faculty, including four Nobel laureates, engage with students in three degree programs: the two-year full-time MBA, one-year fulltime Master of Science for experienced leaders (MSx), and PhD. In addition, a vibrant portfolio of more than 60 certificate and short courses, delivered both on campus and online around the world, provide frameworks for executives and leaders to apply innovative solutions within their organizations as well as to the world’s most challenging issues. Alumni join a powerful and close-knit network of trailblazers around the world.

Understanding how the planet works and helping solve the resource and environmental challenges facing humanity are the focus of research and teaching in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. The school’s strengths include subsurface processes and their relationship to energy and water resources, natural hazards and the evolution of Earth, as well as outer envelope processes—the “life support system” of oceans, land, atmosphere and climate. The school awards BS, MS, MA, Engineer and PhD degrees.

The Graduate School of Education enrolls about 400 graduate students, preparing the next generation of education scholars, policymakers, entrepreneurs, executives and school leaders. The GSE’s faculty draw from a variety of disciplines to produce scholarship that shapes teaching and learning worldwide. They partner with schools, nonprofits and governments to improve policies and practice and help prepare all learners for a dynamic future. The GSE offers the Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts and Master of Arts with teaching credential, Master of Science, as well as three joint degrees in public policy, law and business. It also offers an undergraduate program.

Stanford Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for nearly a century, laying the technological and business foundations for what we now know as Silicon Valley and creating pivotal technologies that have transformed the worlds of information technology, communications, health care, energy, business and beyond. With more than 5,000 graduate and undergraduate students and 280 faculty across nine departments and more than 80 laboratories, centers, institutes and programs, the school focuses on seeking solutions to important global problems and educating leaders who will make the world a better place by using the power of engineering principles, techniques and systems. The school aims to educate engineers who possess not only deep technical excellence, but the creativity, cultural awareness and entrepreneurial skills that come from exposure to the liberal arts, business, medicine and other disciplines that are an integral part of the Stanford experience.

The School of Humanities and Sciences is Stanford’s largest school. As the home of Stanford’s world-class liberal arts education, the school encompasses more than 45 departments and interdisciplinary degree programs that span the humanities, arts, languages and literatures, social sciences, mathematics, and the physical and life sciences. H&S enrolls more than 2,300 graduate students and nearly 1,900 undergraduate students and has close to 600 faculty members. H&S serves as the foundation of a Stanford undergraduate education no matter which discipline students pursue as a major. The school’s graduate programs lead to Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Public Policy or Master of Fine Arts degrees.

Stanford Law School combines classic and innovative legal education, with about 65 faculty members and 180 new JD students annually. The student-to-faculty ratio is 4 to 1. The school offers 21 joint degree programs in areas ranging from bioengineering to business to public policy. Eleven clinics allow students to undertake the roles of practicing lawyers, and 25+ academic programs and centers and about 15 policy practicums offer opportunities for research and policy work.

The School of Medicine, the oldest medical school in the western United States, encourages intellectual diversity in students interested in developing a scholarly, investigative approach to problems in medicine and science and using discoveries to transform patient care. The school has 1,098 faculty, including seven Nobel laureates; 1,470 postdoctoral scholars; 484 MD students; 1,194 PhD and MS candidates; and 1,386 residents and clinical fellows. Faculty deliver care and medical students gain experience at Stanford Hospital and Stanford Health Care, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Children’s Health, Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and other affiliated sites, including the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Faculty received $620 million for sponsored research in 2020 and $471 million in NIH funding in 2019.