General Info

Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University is an educational institution that serves more than 20,000 students. It offers a range of bachelor, master and doctoral degrees. The university operates various engineering, medical, law and management colleges. It provides classes in business management, medicine, law, animal science, applied economics, biological statistics and computational biology. The university also offers lessons in entomology, food science, horticulture, landscape architecture, microbiology, sociology and atmospheric science. It operates through human development, labor economics, organizational behavior and social statistics departments. In addition, the university conducts research on several subjects. Cornell University has its administrative office in Ithaca, N.Y.