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Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a major research university and a member of the Ivy League. Cornell was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell, a businessman and a pioneer in the telegraph industry, and Andrew Dickson White, a respected scholar. It is the federal land-grant university of New York state.
Cornell is among the most selective universities in the United States, and counts twenty-seven Nobel laureates among its students and affiliated faculty. Cornell was the first major institution in the eastern United States to admit women along with men; the first women enrolled in 1872. It awarded the first university degree in veterinary medicine, taught the first course in American history, formed the first university publishing company, and is a pioneer in many other areas.
The university has seven undergraduate and seven graduate level academic units, as well as three intercollege divisions, the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, and the Cornell University Library. Cornell's main campus is situated on 745 rolling acres overlooking Cayuga Lake, largest of the Finger Lakes, and the central portion is bounded to its north and south by picturesque gorges and waterfalls.
Two units, the Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences are located at the New York City campus. In addition, the university operates a medical school campus in Qatar, the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Shoals Marine Laboratory off the coast of Maine (in cooperation with the University of New Hampshire), the New York State Cooperative Extension system, and several other teaching or research facilities around the world.
The university's 13,700 undergraduates and 6,500 graduate and professional students come from more than a hundred countries and all fifty states. Cornell offers graduate degrees in approximately 100 academic and professional fields. Cornell's professional offerings include schools of law, management (business), medicine, and veterinary medicine.
The school colors are carnelian red and white, a play on "Cornellian" and Andrew Dickson White. Cornell's mascot is the bear, but its sports teams are all nicknamed "Big Red". They participate in the Ivy League and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC).
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