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Why can't Standford open another campus in, say, Austin?

They tried to open one in NYC (Roosevelt Island, Development, between Manhattan and LIC), but there was major pushback by both faculty and some students/alumi

They felt opening Stanford to more students will dilute its brand/exclusivity feel, and character, yada yada....

Basically, some folks that wanted to keep it an exclusive club, nixed it.

Right now Cornell has a tech campus there.

New York held a competition for establishing a campus on Roosevelt Island, and Stanford competed strongly, and was considered the shoo-in candidate, but they were sent home with their tail between their legs when the Cornell / Technion team won the bid. Nobody on the Stanford side nixed it; they lost and everyone in Silicon Valley was astonished.

UT Austin already exists and is a top CS school? Why would it need to be Stanford?

Satellite campuses never work. They would have to build an entire Stanford University System which would then need to ensure that every individual location was keeping up with their "brand".

There's a reason why "I'm a UC graduate" doesn't mean much, but Berkeley most certainly does.

I don't think it is that definitive. It's hard, but not impossible. Also, it doesn't have to begin with a whole university system. A few departments could be fine. I wouldn't say begin with a small elite campus on a focused area is a task deemed to fail.

Has a satellite campus ever worked anywhere?

Duke has a really amazing and world renowned satellite medical school in Singapore.

It's too early to be sure, but Cornell Tech, the new-ish satellite campus of Cornell in NYC, looks to be on a successful trajectory.

I remember when Cornell Tech was just a fraction of a floor in the Google Chelsea office. If there sheer growth in presence in the city is anything to go by, it looks they have invested a lot in it. I mean, a lot.

Didn’t Stanford open a small campus in Japan, maybe still has one?

A quick google search makes it seem like their Kyoto campus is for a study abroad program. and it's located in Doshisha University. https://ealc.stanford.edu/undergraduate-program/study-abroad

Wharton?

@dang, it seems your software is overreacting. redis_mlc 's comment under this thread is totally fine, not sure why it was killed. Is it bc it mentioned "China"?

I have seen a few overkills recently, so just asking.

Given that the majority of their recent comments are [dead], 'redis_mlc is likely banned. If you see a dead-yet-worthwhile comment, you can vouch for it.

(Also, @dang doesn't do anything special: if you want to contact the moderators, email them using the Contact link in the footer.)

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