Stanford's press release touted them as being in the top five post-graduate schools in the world.  Oregon is fighting to keeps its research accreditation.  Stanford has both engineering and medical doctorate programs.  The U of O gave away its medical program to form OHSU years ago.    (Knight gave OHSU $500 million last year.)    The engineering program in Oregon is in Corvallis, not Eugene.   I think he chose wisely.  If the U of O wants to get the big academic donations, they have to earn that status;  they  don't get it just because Knight got an undergraduate J-school degree here or even because he likes the Duck sports program.