Cornell University is situated in Ithaca, New York, USA. Cornell University is a private university and that is a member of the Ivy League. It was established in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White as a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission was offered irrespective of religion or race. Its founders intended that the new university would teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, an 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study”.
The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus—for example, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering—with each college and division defining its own academic programs in near autonomy. Cornell is one of two private land grant universities, and its seven undergraduate colleges include four state-supported statutory or contract colleges. The university also administers two satellite medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar. The university ranked 15th in the 2010 U.S. News & World Report National Universities ranking
Cornell counts more than 255,000 living alumni, 28 Rhodes Scholars and 41 Nobel laureates affiliated with the university as faculty or students. The student body consists of over 13,000 undergraduate and 6,000 graduate students from all fifty states and one hundred and twenty-two countries.
Campus:
Cornell’s main campus is on East Hill in Ithaca, New York, overlooking the town and Cayuga Lake. The campus consisted of 209.5 acres (0.85 km²) of Ezra Cornell's roughly 300 acre (1.2 km²) farm. Since then, it has swelled to about 745 acres (3.0 km²), encompassing both the hill and much of the surrounding areas. Some 260 university buildings are divided primarily between Central and North Campuses on the plateau of the Hill, West Campus on its slope, and College town immediately south of Central Campus.
The Ithaca Campus is among the rolling valleys of the Finger Lakes region and, atop the Hill, commands a panoramic view of the surrounding area. Two gorges, Fall Creek Gorge and Cascadilla Gorge, bound Central Campus, and become popular swimming holes during the warmer months (although the university discourages their use). Adjacent to the main campus, Cornell owns the 2,800 acre (11.6 km²) Cornell Plantations, a botanical garden containing flowers, trees, and ponds along manicured trails.
Research and Scholarship:
There are few universities anywhere in the world with the research scope of Cornell University. That research spans a vast array of subjects, and ranges from the basic and theoretical work to applied research.
Colleges and Schools:
* College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
* College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
* College of Arts and Sciences
* College of Engineering
* School of Hotel Administration
* College of Human Ecology
* School of Industrial and Labor Relations
* Graduate School
* Cornell Law School
* Johnson Graduate School of Management
* Weill Cornell Medical College (New York City)
* Weill Cornell Medical College (Doha, Qatar)
* Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (New York City)
* College of Veterinary Medicine
Academic:
Cornell University’s colleges, schools, and other academic units offer more than 4,000 courses, 70 undergraduate majors, 93 graduate fields of study, undergraduate and advanced degrees, and continuing education and outreach programs.
Major Fields : Cornell offers nearly 80 formal major fields, listed below, as well as challenging dual-degree programs and a score of interdisciplinary majors that cross traditional departmental boundaries.
Africana Studies, Agricultural Sciences, American Studies, Animal Science, Anthropology, Applied Economics and Management, Archaeology, Architecture , Asian Studies, Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biological Engineering, Biological Sciences, Biology and Society, Biometry and Statistics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Civil Engineering, Classics (Greek, Latin), College Scholar Program, Communication, Comparative Literature, Computer Science, Dance, Design and Environmental Analysis, Development Sociology, Education, Agricultural Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering Physics, English, Entomology, Environmental Engineering, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fiber Science and Apparel Design, Film , Fine Arts, Food Science , French, German Studies, Government, History, History of Architecture, History of Art, Hotel Administration, Human Biology, Health and Society, Human Development, Industrial and Labor Relations, Information Science, International Agriculture and Rural Development, Italian, Landscape Architecture, Linguistics, Materials Science and Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Music, Natural Resources, Near Eastern Studies, Nutritional Sciences, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Philosophy
Physics, Plant Sciences, Policy Analysis and Management, Psychology, Religious Studies, Russian Literature, Science and Technology Studies, Science of Earth Systems, Science of Natural and Environmental Systems, Sociology, Spanish, Theatre Arts, Urban and Regional Studies, Viticulture and Enology.
International programs: Cornell offers undergraduate curricula with international focuses, including the Africana Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Latino Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Studies, and Russian Literature majors. Cornell was the first university to teach modern Far Eastern languages. In addition to traditional academic programs, Cornell students may study abroad on any of six continents.
Library:
The Cornell University Library is the eleventh largest academic library in the United States, ranked by number of volumes held. Organized into twenty divisions, in 2005 it held 7.5 million printed volumes in open stacks, 8.2 million microfilms and microfiches, and a total of 440,000 maps, motion pictures, DVDs, sound recordings, and computer files in its collections, in addition to extensive digital resources and the University Archives. It was the first among all U.S. colleges and universities to allow undergraduates to borrow books from its libraries.
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