United States Ithaca, NY

Summary

Cornell University is a private institution that was founded in 1865. The Ivy League school is located in Ithaca, New York, which is about 220 miles northwest of New York City. In a recent year, Cornell enrolled more than 21,000 students, about 65 percent of whom were studying at the undergraduate level. The same year, around 20 percent of the total student body was international. Domestic and international students pay the same tuition at Cornell, and various types of university student housing are offered, including themed residence halls as well as apartments for graduate and professional students.

The university has 14 colleges and schools, including seven undergraduate divisions in addition to graduate and professional divisions located in Ithaca, New York City and Doha, Qatar. The undergraduate colleges offer studies in agriculture and life sciences; architecture, art and planning; arts and sciences; business; engineering; human ecology; and industrial and labor relations. The university follows a semester-based academic calendar, and English is the language of instruction. Cornell offers English language courses and other resources, such as a language partner program, for international students. Research opportunities are available for both undergraduate and graduate Cornell students. One such offering that undergrads can take advantage of is the Food Science Summer Scholar Program, a 10-week program that provides students with stipends. A sampling of the university's research centers includes the Cornell Center for Comparative and Population Genomics, the Center for the Study of Inequality and the Center for Advanced Computing.