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The Campus Plan. In 1876, Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of what had been El Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the development of his Palo Alto Stock Farm for trotting horses.
The student-faculty ratio at Stanford University is 4:1, and the school has 71.3 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Stanford University include: Engineering, Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Sciences, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services and Biological and Biomedical Sciences. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 98 percent.