Cornell University
Cornell University
Motto:
"I would found an institution
where any person can find
instruction in any study."
-Ezra Cornell, 1865[1]
Established:
1865
Type:
Private with 14 colleges and
schools, including 4 statutory
colleges
Endowment:
$4.5 billion(2008)[2]
President:
David J. Skorton
Faculty:
1,594 Ithaca
1,005 New York City
34 Qatar†
Students:
19,800[3]
Undergraduates: 13,510 Ithaca[3]
Postgraduates:
6,290 Ithaca
818 New York City
135 Qatar[3][4]
Location:
Ithaca, NY, USA
Campus:
Small city, 745 acres
(3.0 km²)
Colors:
Carnelian and white
Nickname:
Big Red
Mascot:
None. The unofficial mascot
is the bear sometimes named
"Touchdown"[5]
Athletics:
NCAA Division I Ivy League
Affiliations:
AAU
Website:
www.cornell.edu
†Regular full-time and part-time professorial
faculty members. NYC Weill medical-division units
have additional external affiliations with 867 full-
time and part-time faculty members elsewhere.
Cornell University located in Ithaca, New
York, USA, is a private university with four
state-supported statutory or contract col-
leges. Its two medical campuses are in New
York City and Education City, Qatar. Cornell
is one of two private land grant universit-
ies,[6] and a member of the Ivy League.
The student body consists of over 13,000
undergraduate and 6,000 graduate students
from all fifty states and one hundred and
twenty-two countries.[7] It is often considered
as one of the top universities in the world,
with consistent top 15 rankings. Cornell
counts more than 255,000 living alumni, 28
Rhodes Scholars and 40 Nobel laureates affil-
iated with the university as faculty or stu-
dents.[4][8][9] Cornell produces more gradu-
ates that go on to become doctors than any
other university in the USA. It also produces
the largest number of graduates in the life
sciences who continue for Ph.D. degrees,[10]
and is ranked fourth in the world in produ-
cing the largest number of graduates who go
on to pursue Ph.D.s at American institu-
tions.[11] Research is a central element of the
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