"Cornell College is a personal and statutory Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York. Established in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to show as well as make payments in all areas of expertise-- from the standards to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unique for the time, are caught in Cornell's starting concept, a preferred 1868 Ezra Cornell quotation: "" I would certainly found an organization where anybody can locate instruction in any type of research study."".

The university is generally organized right into seven undergraduate universities and also 7 graduate divisions at its primary Ithaca school, with each university as well as department defining its certain admission requirements and also academic programs in close to freedom. The college additionally carries out 2 satellite medical universities, one in New York City and one in Education and learning City, Qatar, and Cornell Tech, a graduate program that integrates innovation, organisation, and also creative thinking. The program relocated from Google's Chelsea Building in New York City to its irreversible university on Roosevelt Island in September 2017.

Cornell is one of minority exclusive land grant colleges in the USA. Of its 7 undergraduate universities, three are state-supported statutory or contract universities through the State College of New York City (SUNY) system, including its farming and human ecology universities in addition to its industrial labor relationships institution. Of Cornell's graduate schools, just the veterinary college is state-supported. As a land give college, Cornell runs a cooperative expansion outreach program in every county of New york city and obtains yearly funding from the State of New york city for certain instructional objectives. The Cornell University Ithaca School consists of 745 acres, yet is much larger when the Cornell Botanic Gardens (more than 4,300 acres) and the numerous university-owned lands in New York City are considered.

As of Might 2020, 59 Nobel laureates, four Turing Honor winners and also one Fields Champion have been associated with Cornell College. Cornell counts greater than 250,000 living graduates, and its former and also present professors and also graduates consist of 33 Marshall Scholars, 33 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, 55 Olympic Champions, 10 current Lot of money 500 Chief executive officers, as well as 35 billionaire alumni. Given that its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. The trainee body includes more than 15,000 undergraduate and 8,000 college students from all 50 American states and 119 nations.."