Cornell University

Cornell University was established on April 27, 1865, as a coeducational, non-sectarian institution by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White. It was inaugurated on October 7, 1868, and enrolled 412 students. The campus encompasses more than 700 acres in Ithaca, New York, and includes around 260 buildings. The university also offers medical campuses in New York City and Qatar. Cornell University is organized into several academic units including:

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Engineering
College of Human Ecology
College of Veterinary Medicine
Cornell Law School
Johnson Graduate School of Management
School of Hotel Administration
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
The Graduate School
Weill Medical College

Cornell University has officially recognized more than 35 fraternities and approximately 10 sororities which are governed by the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council, and Multicultural Greek Letter Council. Some of the fraternities and sororities are Beta Theta Pi, Delta Sigma Theta, Theta Delta Chi, Kappa Alpha Society, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Gamma Rho, and Kappa Phi Lambda.

Campus Location

Ithaca, NY 14853
USA
Main Tel: (607) 255-2000
Web Site

The campus is in a small city.

Cornell University Highlights

Where Cornell University stands out most compared to other schools (details below):

Many students concentrating in engineering, animal science and care, architecture and planning, science, agricultural science and management, hospitality, mathematics, and computer science and engineering.
High faculty salary.
Large number of programs of study offered.
High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
Selective admissions.
Large number of students.
Good faculty-to-student ratio.
Number of dorm rooms for students.
High male/female ratio.

Other important characteristics:

Faculty tenure system
Library on-campus
Campus housing available
Student meal (board) plan
Study abroad option
Part-time classes available
ROTC

Degrees Awarded (in 2007)

Degree	Total Earned	Different Programs
Bachelor	3,467	85
Master	1,701	104
Doctorale	485	89
First-professional degree	267	2
1-2 year certificate	72	1

Cornell Students

The student enrollment at Cornell was 19,800 in 2007 (19,777 full-time equivalent).

About 52% of the freshmen class in 2007 was male and women were 48% of the class.

Undergrads are 69% of enrolled students, graduate students are 27%, and those seeking first-professional graduate degrees represent 4%.

About 9% of freshmen are from countries other than the US. Students living in the US make up 91% of incoming freshmen.

Tuition and Other Costs

Item	Cost
State Tuition and fees	$ 34,781
Room	$ 6,680
Board	$ 4,510
Books and supplies	$ 720
Other	$ 1,460

Financial Aid: Cornell participates in US Title IV financial assistance programs.

Please refer to BrainTrack's financial aid articles section for background information.

Similar Schools

Based on computer comparisons against all other US colleges, these schools appear to be most similar to Cornell:

School	Location	Enrollment
Stanford University	Stanford, CA	19,782
Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh, PA	10,326
Duke University	Durham, NC	13,598
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	19,682
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA	10,220
Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland, OH	9,844
Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	7,261
Vanderbilt University	Nashville, TN	11,847
Lehigh University	Bethlehem, PA	6,845
Northwestern University	Evanston, IL	19,005

Faculty

Tenure (2007):

Full-Time Faculty		Total
With tenure		1,117
Without tenure; working toward tenure		351
Without tenure; tenure not available		371

Housing and Meals

Cornell provides on-campus housing for 8,760 of its 19,777 (full-time) students (as of 2007).

Students may purchase a meal plan which includes 21 meals weekly.

Cornell Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. Cornell is in the Ivy Group for major sports.

Cornell Admissions (2007)

Applicants	Admitted
Men	21%
Women	21%
All	21%

SAT Test Scores:

SAT	Middle 50%
Verbal	630-730
Math	660-770
Writing	630-720

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees awarded in 2007 in parentheses)

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT (328 awarded)

Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations
Agricultural Business and Management
Agricultural Economics
Agriculture
Food Science
International Agriculture

ANIMAL SCIENCE AND CARE (156 awarded)

Agricultural Animal Breeding
Animal Sciences

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (194 awarded)

Architectural History and Criticism
Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
Architecture and Related Services
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Environmental Design/Architecture
Landscape Architecture (BS, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD)

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (790 awarded)

Business Administration and Management
Labor and Industrial Relations

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (226 awarded)

Computer Science
Information Technology

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (68 awarded)

Environmental Science
Natural Resource Economics
Natural Resources/Conservation

COOKING AND CULINARY ARTS (0 awarded)

Institutional Food Workers

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (16 awarded)

Dance
Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (29 awarded)

Agricultural Teacher Education
Biology Teacher Education
Chemistry Teacher Education
Education
Family and Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education
Mathematics Teacher Education
Physics Teacher Education
Science Teacher Education/General Science Teacher Education

ENGINEERING (1,205 awarded)

Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Agricultural/Biological Engineering and Bioengineering
Archeology
Biomedical/Medical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Engineering Mechanics
Engineering Physics
Engineering
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
Materials Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Operations Research
Systems Engineering

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (276 awarded)

Community Organization and Advocacy
Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies
Housing and Human Environments
Human Development and Family Studies
Public Administration
Public Policy Analysis

FINE ARTS (71 awarded)

Art History, Criticism and Conservation
Fiber, Textile and Weaving Arts
Fine Arts and Art Studies
Fine/Studio Arts

HOSPITALITY (271 awarded)

Hotel/Motel Administration/Management

LANDSCAPING AND HORTICULTURE (50 awarded)

Agronomy and Crop Science
Horticultural Science
Ornamental Horticulture
Plant Sciences

LAW (260 awarded)

American/US Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence (LLM, MCJ, JSD/SJD)
Law (LLB, JD)

LIBERAL ARTS (843 awarded)

African-American/Black Studies
American/United States Studies/Civilization
Anthropology
Asian Studies/Civilization
Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics
Comparative Literature
Creative Writing
Development Economics and International Development
East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
East Asian Studies
Economics
English Language and Literature
French Language and Literature
Gay/Lesbian Studies
German Language and Literature
German Studies
Historic Preservation and Conservation
History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
History
Italian Language and Literature
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
Linguistics
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies
Near and Middle Eastern Studies
Political Science and Government
Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Russian Language and Literature
Social Sciences
Sociology
Spanish Language and Literature

MATHEMATICS (90 awarded)

Applied Mathematics
Mathematics
Statistics

MEDIA (84 awarded)

Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (15 awarded)

Health/Health Care Administration/Management

MEDICINE (105 awarded)

Neuroscience
Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies
Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sci, Gen (Cert,MS,PhD)

MUSIC (18 awarded)

Music Theory and Composition
Music
Musicology and Ethnomusicology

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (13 awarded)

Nutrition Sciences

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (8 awarded)

Film/Cinema Studies

REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT (16 awarded)

Real Estate

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (25 awarded)

Philosophy
Religion/Religious Studies

SCIENCE (741 awarded)

Animal Genetics
Animal Physiology
Astronomy
Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
Biochemistry
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Biology/Biological Sciences
Biometry/Biometrics
Biophysics
Botany/Plant Biology
Chemistry
Ecology
Entomology
Environmental Toxicology
Evolutionary Biology
Geology/Earth Science
Immunology
Medical Microbiology and Bacteriology
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Physics
Plant Pathology/Phytopathology
Science, Technology and Society
Zoology/Animal Biology

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (94 awarded)

Developmental and Child Psychology
Psychology