"Cornell College is an exclusive as well as statutory Ivy Organization study university in Ithaca, New York City. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to instruct and make payments in all areas of knowledge-- from the classics to the scientific researches, as well as from the theoretical to the used. These perfects, unusual for the time, are recorded in Cornell's founding concept, a prominent 1868 Ezra Cornell quotation: "" I would found an establishment where anyone can discover instruction in any type of study."".

The college is broadly arranged right into seven undergraduate colleges as well as seven graduate divisions at its major Ithaca school, with each university and also division defining its specific admission requirements as well as academic programs in near freedom. The college additionally administers two satellite clinical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education and learning City, Qatar, and Cornell Tech, a graduate program that includes technology, organisation, and creative thinking. The program moved from Google's Chelsea Structure in New York City to its irreversible campus on Roosevelt Island in September 2017.

Cornell is among minority private land grant colleges in the USA. Of its 7 undergraduate universities, 3 are state-supported legal or contract universities with the State University of New York (SUNY) system, including its farming as well as human ecology colleges in addition to its industrial labor connections school. Of Cornell's graduate schools, only the veterinary college is state-supported. As a land give college, Cornell operates a cooperative expansion outreach program in every area of New York and also receives annual financing from the State of New York for sure educational missions. The Cornell College Ithaca University consists of 745 acres, yet is much larger when the Cornell Botanic Gardens (more than 4,300 acres) and also the countless university-owned lands in New york city City are taken into consideration.

As of May 2020, 59 Nobel laureates, 4 Turing Honor winners as well as one Area Medalist have actually been connected with Cornell College. Cornell counts greater than 250,000 living alumni, and also its previous as well as existing professors as well as alumni consist of 33 Marshall Scholars, 33 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, 55 Olympic Champions, 10 present Fortune 500 CEOs, as well as 35 billionaire graduates. Given that its founding, Cornell has actually been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has actually not been limited by religion or race. The trainee body includes greater than 15,000 undergraduate and 8,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and also 119 nations.."