Cornell University

Profileuniversity.com - Cornell University is a private research university located in Ithaca, New York, United Ameika. At the time of its founding in 1865, Cornell University initially as New York State's land-grant university. University founded by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White is one of the eight Ivy League schools historic.

Through seven colleges and schools, including the College of Arts and Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical School, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, School of Law, Veterinary School, and Graduate School, Cornell University offers more than 4,000 courses. In addition, with its academic departments, the university also offers 70 undergraduate majors.

With campus locations that stood on a land area of ​​2,300 hectares located in the Finger Lakes region, many historic buildings and unique and magnificent in the university campus. There are about 260 buildings on this campus. And recently, the university is completing construction on Cornell NYC Tech, a science school in collaboration with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, which currently operates in a space donated by Google.

One of the buildings department in the Cornell campus, The Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, has one of only five known copies of the Gettysburg Address, which was handwritten by one of the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

In addition to academic activities, through the organization and sororities, Cornell also provides a wide range of non-academic activities. One of the organizations active in the much-loved Cornell campus students is a sports club. Cornell has several sports clubs which consists of a team of men and women's teams are known as the Big Red, which competes with sports teams from other universities in the NCAA Division I athletics competition.

With the quality of education is highly qualified, Cornell University has delivered many of the best graduates are also highly qualified in their respective fields, including justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, authors EB White and Toni Morrison, former CEO of Citigroup Sanford Weill and CTO of Cisco's Padmasree Warrior. And just information, in 2015, the current President of Cornell University, David Skorton will resign to lead the Smithsonian Institute.



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