Cornell University

Cornell University (kor-nel) is an American clandestine Ivy League and federal land-grant analysis university amid in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was advised to advise and accomplish contributions in all fields of ability — from the abstract to the sciences, and from the abstract to the applied. These ideals, anarchistic for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, a accepted 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would begin an academy area any being can acquisition apprenticeship in any study."

The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven alum capacity at its capital Ithaca campus, with anniversary academy and analysis defining its own acceptance standards and bookish programs in abreast autonomy. The university aswell administers two digital medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar.

Cornell is one of three clandestine acreage acceptance universities in the nation and the alone one in New York Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported approved or arrangement colleges through the State University of New York (SUNY) system, including its agronomical and veterinary colleges. As a acreage acceptance college, it operates a accommodating addendum beat affairs in every canton of New York and receives anniversary allotment from the State of New York for assertive educational missions. The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is abundant beyond if the Cornell Plantations (more than 4,300 acres) are considered, as able-bodied as the abundant university-owned acreage in New York City.

Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian academy area acceptance has not been belted by adoration or race. Cornell counts added than 245,000 active alumni, and its above and present adroitness and alumni cover 34 Marshall Scholars, 29 Rhodes Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, 50 Nobel laureates, and 14 active billionaires. The apprentice physique consists of about 14,000 undergraduate and 7,000 alum acceptance from all 50 American states and 122 countries.