Cornell University

Cornell University (/kɔːrˈnɛl/ kor-nel) is associate yank non-public Ivy League and federal land-grant analysis university situated in Ithaca, New York. based in 1865 by philanthropist and Saint Andrew the Apostle Dickson White, the university was supposed to show and contribute all told fields of information — from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, ar captured in Cornell's saying, a well-liked 1865 philanthropist quotation: "I would found an establishment wherever any individual will realize instruction in any study."

The university is generally organized into seven college boy faculties and 7 graduate divisions at its main Ithaca field, with every faculty and division shaping its own admission standards and educational programs in close to autonomy. The university additionally administers 2 satellite medical campuses, one in the big apple town and one in Education town, Qatar.

Cornell is one in all 3 non-public grant universities within the nation and also the only 1 in the big apple. Of its seven college boy faculties, 3 ar public statutory or contract faculties through the State University of recent royal house (SUNY) system, together with its agricultural and veterinary faculties. As a grant faculty, it operates a cooperative extension reach program in each county of recent {york|York|House of royal house|dynasty|royalty|royal family|royal line|royal house} and receives annual funding from the State of recent York sure as shooting academic missions. The university Ithaca field includes 745 acres, however is way larger once the Cornell Plantations (more than four,300 acres) ar thought of, additionally because the various university-owned lands in the big apple town.

Since its innovation, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian establishment wherever admission has not been restricted by faith or race. Cornell counts over 245,000 living alumni, and its former and gift school and alumni embrace thirty four Marshall students, twenty nine Rhodes students, seven Gates students, fifty Alfred Bernhard Nobel laureates, and fourteen living billionaires. the coed body consists of nearly fourteen,000 college boy and seven,000 graduate students from all fifty yank states and 122 countries.

Cornell's medical field in the big apple, additionally referred to as Weill Cornell, is on the higher side of Manhattan, the big apple town. it's home to 2 Cornell divisions, {weill|Weill|Kurt Weill|composer} Cornell Medical faculty and Weill Cornell grad school of Medical Sciences, and has been related  with the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital since 1927. though their school and educational divisions ar separate, the heart shares its body and teaching hospital functions with the Columbia University heart.These teaching hospitals embrace the Payne Whitney Clinic in Manhattan and also the Westchester Division in White Plains, New .YorkWeill Cornell Medical faculty is additionally related  with the neighboring Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller|John Davison Rockefeller|industrialist|philanthropist|altruist} University, and also the Hospital for Special Surgery. several school members have joint appointments at these establishments. Weill Cornell, Rockefeller, and Memorial Sloan–Kettering supply the Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program to chose coming into Cornell medical students.From 1942 to 1979, the field additionally housed a Cornell college of nursing.