Cornell University

located in Ithaca, New York. Founded in  by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's motto, a popular Ezra Cornell quotation: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study

The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, with each college and division defining its own admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers two satellite medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar

Cornell is one of three private land grant universities in the nation and the only one in New York. Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York  ystem, including its agricultural and veterinary colleges. As a land grant college, it operates a extension outreach program in every county of New York and receives annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions.[8] The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is much larger when the Cornell Plantations (more than  are considered, as well as the numerous university-owned lands in New York City.

Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. Cornell counts more than  living alumni, and its former and present faculty and alumni includeMarshall Scholars, 29 Rhodes Scholars, Gates Scholars, and 44 Nobel laureates. The student body consists of nearly 1undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 American states and countrie