Cornell University is a world-renowned private Ivy League statutory land-grant research university founded in 1865 in Ithaca, New York, by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White. Governed by Ezra Cornell’s enduring founding motto—"I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study"—Cornell blends classical humanities and fundamental sciences with world-class engineering, computing, architecture, agricultural sciences, hotel administration, industrial and labor relations, and business management. Home to approximately 26,200 students representing all 50 U.S. states and over 120 countries, Cornell operates seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate and professional schools on its scenic 2,300-acre Ithaca campus overlooking Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York, complemented by the groundbreaking Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City and Weill Cornell Medicine in Manhattan and Doha, Qatar. As one of the world’s foremost research powerhouses with annual research expenditures exceeding $1.4 billion, Cornell has produced 62 Nobel laureates, 4 Turing Award recipients, 35 MacArthur Fellows, and 55 Olympic medalists.

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