Stanford School of Engineering - Facts and Figures: Stanford Engineering by the Numbers
Stanford Engineering

Facts and Figures: Stanford Engineering by the Numbers

The School of Engineering is home to nine departments, 241 faculty, about 5,000 students. More than a quarter of all Stanford University students are enrolled in the school. We operate 65 departmental laboratories, centers, and affiliates programs, many of which are multidisciplinary, bringing in academic areas including medicine, business, linguistics, and physics.

Faculty 2007-2008
Professors (includes one in medical center) 132
Associate Professors 37
Assistant Professors 53
Research or Teaching Faculty (non-tenure line) 19
Total 241
Emeritus Faculty | View
Total 105
Faculty distinctions (includes Emeriti) | View
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 32
National Academy of Engineering 75
National Academy of Sciences 15
National Institute of Medicine 3
National Medal of Science 8
National Medal of Technology 4
Nobel Prize 1
Kyoto Prize 2
Turing Award 3
NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Awardees 37
NSF Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) 6
Royal Society of London 3
Academie des Sciences (Paris) 1
Norwegian Academy of Sciences 1
Charles Stark Draper Prize (NAE) 1
Academy Award (Hollywood) 3
Marconi Prize 1
Medal with Purple Ribbon (Japan) 1
Faculty Honors and Awards - 2007-2008 | View
Degrees granted 2006-2007
Bachelor's degrees 334
Masters degrees 996
PhD/Eng degrees 266
Undergraduate enrollment 2006-2007*
Students 1,970
Women 602
Minorities 978
Full time graduate enrollment 2006-2007
Students 3,187
Women 702
Minorities 462

*Declared and intended majors

Finances
Stanford Engineering depends on a broad mix of funding to support the academic and research initiatives in the school. Its total budget for FY2006-2007 was $224,307,491. Its total research volume for the same year was $116,611,179. See this year's Annual Report for more detailed information.

National rankings
The National Research Council's last study of American doctoral programs ranked Stanford number one in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering; number three in Aeronautics and Astronautics and Civil Engineering; and in the top seven for Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering.

The annual US News & World Report graduate school rankings place five Stanford Engineering departments/programs in the top two: Aeronautics & astronautics (#2), computer science (#2), electrical engineering (#2), mechanical engineering (#2), and the environmental engineering program within the civil and environmental engineering department (#1). Stanford holds four top six rankings: Civil engineering (#3), chemical engineering (#5), materials science and engineering (#6), the industrial engineering program in the management science & engineering department (#4). The Department of Bioengineering, which enrolled its first students in Sept. 2004, ranks highly as well (#12). Stanford Engineering as a school is ranked #2 in the country. More

President Bush and Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth, an assistant professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry, received a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from President Bush July 26, 2006. The award is the highest in the nation for a young scientist or engineer.
Diversity at all levels
Ethnic minority students, including African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans composed 48 percent of undergraduate and 23 percent of graduate degrees granted. Foreign students accounted for 9 percent of undergraduate and 47 percent of graduate degrees granted.