Cornell University is a private institution that was founded in
1865.
It
has a total undergraduate enrollment of 14,393,
its setting is rural,
and the campus size is 745 acres.
It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar.
Cornell University's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges
is National Universities,
15.
Its tuition and fees are $47,286 (2014-15).
Cornell University, located in Ithaca, N.Y., has more than 500 student
organizations on campus, which range from the Big Red Marching Band to
the International Affairs Society. First-year students live together on
north campus, and the university has housing options for upperclassmen
and graduate students, though many choose to live off campus. Cornell
has a thriving Greek life, with around 70 total fraternity and sorority
chapters. Cornell has more than 30 NCAA Division I varsity teams that
compete in the Ivy League. The Cornell Big Red are perhaps best known
for their successful men’s lacrosse team, which won seven consecutive
Ivy League titles from 2003 to 2009. Cornell also has a strong hockey
program.
Cornell’s 14 colleges and schools each admit their own students and
provide their own faculty, even though every graduate receives a degree
from Cornell University. Cornell’s two largest undergraduate colleges
are the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences. Its graduate schools include the highly ranked S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, College of Engineering, Law School, Weill Cornell Medical College and a well-regarded program in education. Cornell is also well known for its top-ranked College of Veterinary Medicine and
the highly esteemed School of Hotel Administration. One of Cornell’s
oldest traditions is Dragon Day, during which a dragon built by
first-year architecture students is paraded through campus and then
burned during a bonfire celebrating the coming of spring. Notable alumni
include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, author E.B.
White and Bill Nye, the "Science Guy."
Cornell University was founded in 1865 as a
coeducational, nonsectarian institution where "any person can find
instruction in any study."
Once dubbed
"the first American university" in recognition of the revolutionary
principles on which it was founded, Cornell continues to push the limits
of its founder's vision. Renowned for its distinctive mix of eminent
scholarship, academic rigor and commitment to public service, it
attracts more than 20,000 students from every state in the Union and
more than 120 countries. They learn from a world-class faculty teaching
more than 4,000 courses and participate in cutting-edge research in 11
undergraduate, graduate and professional schools on the uniquely
beautiful Ithaca campus, at Cornell's medical college campuses in New
York City and Qatar, and in affiliated programs around the world.
Cornell???s
breadth of study, ranging from legendary programs in the humanities to
world-class interdisciplinary research centers in nanotechnology,
biotechnology, supercomputing and genomics, sets it apart from its Ivy
League peers. As the land-grant university of New York State, Cornell
also boasts the nation's first colleges devoted to hotel administration,
industrial and labor relations, and veterinary medicine. In 2011,
Cornell was awarded the opportunity to create a new graduate school for
information technology in New York City. Cornell NYC Tech is training
the student entrepreneurs who will drive the 21st century???s digital
transformation of publishing, advertising, news and information, and
entertainment.
In recent years, Cornell
has been aggressively expanding its international programs - from the
establishment, in 2001, of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar,
the first American medical school outside of the United States, to the
forging of partnerships and collaborations with major institutions in
China, India, and Singapore - further supporting Cornell's status as the
transnational university of the future.
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