What Makes Stanford Such a Strategic Mission Field?

Today They Learn, Tomor­row They Lead

In a very real sense, schools like Stan­ford func­tion as a steer­ing wheel
for our soci­ety. Whichev­er way they turn now deter­mine how our soci­ety
will turn out a few decades down the road.

Alum­ni include

• Gov­ern­ment: 4 cur­rent Supreme
  Court Jus­tices (Chief Jus­tice William Rehn­quist and Asso­ciate Jus­tices San­dra Day O’Con­nor, Antho­ny Kennedy and Stephen Brey­er), Cal­i­for­nia gov­er­nor Gray Davis, 5 U.S. sen­a­tors, and Ehud
  Barak (for­mer Prime Min­is­ter of Israel)
• Busi­ness: the CEOs of 3Com, Hewlett-Packard,
  Nike, and Sun Microsys­tems
• Celebri­ties: Reese With­er­spoon, Chelsea Clin­ton, Ted Kop­pel, Sigour­ney Weaver, Ted Dan­son, Jack Palance, Jen­nifer Con­nel­ly, and Fred Sav­age
• Sports: Tiger Woods, John Elway,
  and John McEn­roe
• Edu­ca­tion: the pres­i­dents of Yale,
  the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ari­zona, and Johns Hop­kins.
• Sci­ence: Vin­ton Cerf “the Father
  of the Inter­net”, and 17 astro­nauts (includ­ing Sal­ly Ride), and the founders of Yahoo! (most
  pop­u­lar site on the Inter­net) and the founders of Google.

In oth­er words, Stan­ford is one of the most strate­gic mis­sion fields in the world! For an even fuller list of alum­ni, check out the Stan­ford famous alum­ni list!