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 colleges. Its two medical campuses are in New
York City and Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of
two private land grant universities,[6] and a member of
the Ivy League.
The student body consists of over 13,000 under-
graduate 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 affiliated with the university as fac-
ulty or students.[4][8][9] Cornell produces more graduates
that go on to become doctors than any other university
in the USA. It also produces the largest number of gradu-
ates in the life sciences who continue for Ph.D. de-
grees,[10] and is ranked fourth in the world in producing
the largest number of graduates who go on to pursue
Ph.D.s at American institutions.[11] Research is a central
element of the university’s mission;