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Stanford Faculty

Professor Lerone Martin teaching a Religious Studies class.

Stanford faculty are leaders in their fields with their accomplishments recognized across the disciplines. Faculty work closely with students and conduct groundbreaking research.

Today, Stanford has 2,323 members of the professoriate faculty. There are 716 members appointed to endowed professorships.


Stanford’s Fall 2023 community of scholars includes:

20
Nobel laureates

36
Nobel Prize winners since the university’s founding

33
MacArthur Fellows

6
National Humanities Medal recipients

4
Pulitzer Prize winners

8
National Medal of Science recipients

4
National Medal of Technology recipients

323
American Academy of Arts and Sciences members

184
National Academy of Science members

114
National Academy of Engineering members

90
National Academy of Medicine members

28
National Academy of Education members

47
American Philosophical Society members

7
Wolf Foundation Prize winners

1
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

7
A.M. Turing Award winners while on faculty

3
Kavli Prize laureates

1
National Medal of Arts winner

Faculty by the numbers