Largest Universities (campus/acres)

jamesah1
Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:52:56 +0000

To clarify about the Stanford campus (seeing as how I grew up on it), land that is leased to the city of Palo Alto (because Leland Stanford’s will prohibited the sale of any of his land), such as the land HP is on, is not counted as part of the university. The rolling hills and Jasper Ridge ecological reserve are counted for totall area. Stanford says that over 50% of the campus is farm land, maybe one reason it is nicknamed “the farm.” However, the main campus is still quite large and spread out, very similar to UC Davis.

Also, the reason that the mail is sent to Stanford, CA is because the campus is not part of Palo Alto. I am not a resident of Palo Alto, but Stanford. There is no town of Stanford, however, and it is just part of Santa Clara county.