"Cornell College is an exclusive and also statutory Ivy Organization research study college in Ithaca, New York City. Established in 1865 by Ezra Cornell as well as Andrew Dickson White, the college was intended to instruct and make payments in all fields of knowledge-- from the standards to the sciences, and also from the academic to the used. These ideals, unique for the time, are recorded in Cornell's starting principle, a popular 1868 Ezra Cornell quotation: "" I would certainly discovered an institution where anybody can find instruction in any kind of study."".

The college is broadly organized right into seven undergraduate colleges and also seven graduate divisions at its major Ithaca school, with each college and division specifying its certain admission requirements and also scholastic programs in close to autonomy. The college also provides 2 satellite medical campuses, one in New york city City as well as one in Education and learning City, Qatar, and also Cornell Technology, a graduate program that incorporates modern technology, service, and creative thinking. The program moved from Google's Chelsea Structure in New York City to its long-term school on Roosevelt Island in September 2017.

Cornell is among minority exclusive land grant universities in the USA. Of its 7 undergraduate universities, 3 are state-supported legal or agreement colleges via the State College of New York City (SUNY) system, including its farming and also human ecology universities along with its industrial labor connections school. Of Cornell's graduate schools, only the vet university is state-supported. As a land give college, Cornell operates a cooperative expansion outreach program in every county of New York and also obtains yearly financing from the State of New york city for certain instructional goals. The Cornell University Ithaca School comprises 745 acres, however is much bigger when the Cornell Botanic Gardens (more than 4,300 acres) as well as the many university-owned lands in New york city City are taken into consideration.

As of Might 2020, 59 Nobel laureates, four Turing Honor winners and also one Area Champion have actually been connected with Cornell University. Cornell counts more than 250,000 living graduates, and its former as well as existing professors and also alumni consist of 33 Marshall Scholars, 33 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, 55 Olympic Champions, 10 existing Ton of money 500 CEOs, as well as 35 billionaire graduates. Since its founding, Cornell has actually been a co-educational, non-sectarian establishment where admission has not been limited by faith or race. The student body contains more than 15,000 undergraduate and also 8,000 college students from all 50 American states and 119 countries.."