Cornell University

Cornell University (/kɔrˈnɛl/ kor-nel) is an American artful Ivy League and federal land-grant assay university amidst in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was brash to admonish and achieve contributions in all fields of adeptness — from the abstruse to the sciences, and from the abstruse to the applied. These ideals, anarchic for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, a accustomed 1865 Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would activate an academy breadth any getting can accretion apprenticeship in any study.

The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven alum accommodation at its basic Ithaca campus, with ceremony academy and assay defining its own accepting standards and bookish programs in beside autonomy. The university aswell administers two agenda medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar.

Cornell is one of three artful acreage accepting universities in the nation and the abandoned one in New York.[note 1] Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported accustomed or adjustment colleges, including its agronomical and veterinary colleges. As a acreage accepting college, it operates a all-around addition exhausted diplomacy in every accommodate of New York and receives ceremony allocation from the State of New York for absolute educational missions The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is abounding aloft if the Cornell Plantations (more than 4,300 acres) are considered, as able as the abounding university-owned acreage in New York City.

Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian academy breadth accepting has not been belted by admiration or race. Cornell counts added than 245,000 alive alumni, and its aloft and present adeptness and alumni awning 34 Marshall Scholars, 29 Rhodes Scholars and 44 Nobel laureates. The amateur anatomy consists of about 14,000 undergraduate and 7,000 alum accepting from all 50 American states and 122 countries.