Stanford acreage size

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<p>Does Stanford really own 8,813 acres, 6,200 of which are for education purposes (buildings and main areas)? I read that from Stanford's site <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/history/lands.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/history/lands.html&lt;/a>
but the figures seem outrageous for such a small student population. That size is bigger than Cal, which has over 30,000 total students, and alot bigger than the Ivies with similar student populations. </p>

<p>No wonder Stanford students need bikes to get from place to place...</p>

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<p>yes, it does have over 8,000 acres but all of the campus is located together. and i think a lot of the space is leased out to other people</p>

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<p>the campus is huge (you really need a bike to get around)</p>

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<p>Wow. That's awesome. I love big campuses; gives an impression of being "lost," but in a good way.</p>

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<p>Stanford owns that much land (and it can't be sold, I believe); the actual campus only takes up a small part of that.</p>

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<p>I recently read a book in which a different campus was identified as the largest college campus in the country, so it's interesting to see this discussion of the area of Stanford's campus. And the relief from the chances threads here is very refreshing.</p>

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<p>"Stanford owns that much land (and it can't be sold, I believe); the actual campus only takes up a small part of that."</p>

<p>6,200 acres is used for educational purposes right? I assume that figure pertains to the said campus; and that is a big proportion of the 8,000. That area is almost as big as Berkeley, if I'm not mistaken, and Berkeley services over 30,000!</p>

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6,200 acres is used for educational purposes right?

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<p>Er, perhaps for agricultural studies. I really doubt that Stanford actually uses that much land if its agricultural parts were subtracted.</p>

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<p>An admissions officer said something like it had the second largest area in the WORLD.</p>

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<p>From Wikipedia:</p>

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It is sometimes asserted that Stanford University occupies the largest university campus in the world, in terms of contiguous area, and this may be true. Moscow State University, which is built vertically and has a large floor area, is the largest university, but occupies a smaller piece of land. Berry College occupies 28,000 acres (110 km²) of contiguous land, and Paul Smith's College occupies 14,200 acres (57 km²) of land in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, but neither is a university. Duke University occupies 8,709 acres (35.2 km²), but they are not contiguous.[8] The United States Air Force Academy has a contiguous 18,000 acres (73 km²) at its disposal, but it is not a university. Dartmouth College, with its colonial land grant, owns more than 50,000 acres (200 km²), but only 200 of those are part of the campus.[9]

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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford#Campus%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford#Campus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>And we all know how reliable Wikipedia is =P</p>

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<p>And we can all see the numbers representing the citations...</p>

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<p>Thanks for sharing the links. It does appear that there are some definitional issues here. Maybe I should open a thread in my alma mater's forum about the similarly contentious issue of which university has the largest enrollment (which is certainly not Stanford, but might be my alma mater some years).</p>

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<p>The University of the South in Sewanee, TN has a campus made up of 13,000 acres on the Cumberland Plateau.</p>

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<p>It’s a huge campus, but Stanford also owns Jasper Ridge, a huge nature preserve. Plus, most activities are centered around main campus (aka the Quad and White Plaza).</p>

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<p>“Educational purposes” doesn’t mean the campus itself. There’s also Jasper Biological Preserve and other resources, I assume. But the campus itself is pretty large. I walked from FloMo to Frost Ampitheater and it took me about 20 minutes (but I have planar fascitis…).</p>

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<p>Educational purposes definitely is not just the campus. The campus is large (but not that large)
Another part of the educational purposes is also SLAC (the linear accelerator that is ginormous). </p>

<p>A large part of the owned land is not open to the public (protected land that is completely fenced in)</p>