In 1916, a committee of 125 professors divided Stanford into 26 separate departments. Thirty years later it was again reorganized into Schools of Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences, Law, Business, and Medicine, with 70 departments.
到一九一六年，學校由一百廿五位教授組成的委員會把史大分成獨立的廿六個系，卅年後又改組為地球科學、教育、工、文理、法、商、醫等七個學院、七十個系，學校現今規模大致底定。