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Ithaca, New York-based Cornell Institution is a private, Ivy League, statutory land-grant research university. Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White established Cornell in 1865 with the goal of teaching and advancing knowledge across all disciplines, from the classics to the sciences and from the theoretical to the applied. The foundation concept of Cornell, which is a remark from founder Ezra Cornell from 1868, sums up these ideals: "I would build an institution where any person can get instruction in any study." One of the best universities in the world is Cornell.

At its main campus in Ithaca, the university is divided into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions. Each college and division sets its own entrance requirements and academic programmes with a high degree of autonomy. Three satellite campuses are also managed by the institution, two of which are in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar.

One of the few private institutions in the US with a land grant is Cornell. Three of its seven undergraduate schools—including its agricultural and human ecology colleges and its industrial labour relations school—are state-supported statutory or contract institutions within the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Only the veterinary college is sponsored by the government out of Cornell's graduate schools. Cornell gets annual funding from the State of New York for specific educational goals and runs a cooperative extension outreach programme in each county of New York as a land grant institution. 745 acres make up Cornell University's main campus in Ithaca, New York (more than 4,300 acres when the Cornell Botanic Gardens and the numerous university-owned lands in New York City are considered).

61 Nobel laureates, four Turing Award winners, and one Fields Medalist were connected to Cornell as of September 2021. Its former and current teachers and graduates include 34 Marshall Scholars, 33 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, 63 Olympic Medalists, 10 current Fortune 500 CEOs, and 35 wealthy alumni. Cornell has more than 250,000 living alumni. Since its inception, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian university with open admissions regardless of race or religion. More than 15,000 undergraduate and 10,000 graduate students representing 119 nations and all 50 American states make up the varied student body.