Cornell University

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a small city.

Overview

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.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

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

School characteristics:

• The school is private, not-for-profit.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Doctoral/Research Universities, Extensive.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students may study abroad.
• Part-time classes are available.
• ROTC.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 20,273 in 2009-2010 (19,619 full-time equivalent).

About 50% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 50% of the class.

Undergrads are 68% of enrolled students, graduate students are 27%, and those seeking first-professional graduate degrees represent 5%.

Students under 25 years old represent 77% of the student body. About 1% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

Cornell provides on-campus housing for 7,446 of its 19,619 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010).

Athletics

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

Graduate School Focus

Cornell offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Doctorate (Research/Scholarship & Professional Practice).

Graduate offerings include medical degrees.The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Comprehensive Doctoral With Medical/Veterinary.

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT (362 awarded)

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

ANIMAL SCIENCE AND CARE (142 awarded)

• Agricultural Animal Breeding
• Animal Sciences

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (233 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 (818 awarded)

• Business Administration and Management
• Labor and Industrial Relations

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (215 awarded)

• Computer Science
• Information Technology

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (54 awarded)

• Environmental Science
• Natural Resource Economics
• Natural Resources/Conservation

COOKING AND CULINARY ARTS (0 awarded)

• Institutional Food Workers

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (12 awarded)

• Dance
• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (24 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 (1,213 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
• Engineering/Industrial Management
• Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Operations Research
• Systems Engineering

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (298 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 (84 awarded)

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

HOSPITALITY (307 awarded)

• Hotel/Motel Administration/Management

LANDSCAPING AND HORTICULTURE (47 awarded)

• Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding
• Agronomy and Crop Science
• Horticultural Science
• Ornamental Horticulture
• Plant Sciences

LAW (256 awarded)

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

LIBERAL ARTS (850 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 (101 awarded)

• Applied Mathematics
• Mathematics
• Statistics

MEDIA (66 awarded)

• Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (24 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 (16 awarded)

• Music Theory and Composition
• Music
• Musicology and Ethnomusicology

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (11 awarded)

• Nutrition Sciences

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (9 awarded)

• Film/Cinema Studies

REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT (24 awarded)

• Real Estate

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (37 awarded)

• Philosophy
• Religion/Religious Studies

SCIENCE (697 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
• Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
• 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 (71 awarded)

• Developmental and Child Psychology
• Psychology