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Cornell University

Private and statutory land-grant research university in Ithaca, New York, USA

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academic calendar type	semester
admission rate	0.11 point in time: 2020
admission yield rate	0.59 point in time: 2020
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athletics program	Cornell Big Red
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education	doctoral universities: very high research activity majority undergraduate research doctoral: comprehensive programs, with medical/veterinary school four-year, large, highly residential four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in balanced arts & sciences/professions, high graduate coexistence
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:Cornell University alumni
category for employees of the organization	Category:Cornell University faculty
child organization or unit	Cornell University Library Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University Weill Cornell Medicine Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science Cornell Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cornell Law School Cornell University College of Engineering Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Cornell University School of Hotel Administration Cornell University School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University College of Human Ecology Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research Cornell University Press
coat of arms image	Cornell Shield Heraldic.svg
Commons category	Cornell University
Commons Institution page	Cornell University
coordinate location	42.4492, -76.4839
count of students	23,620 point in time: September 2020 24,900 applies to part: full-time equivalent; point in time: 1 September 2021
country	United States
described by source	The Nuttall Encyclopædia subject named as: Cornell University Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition statement is subject of: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Cornell University 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica statement is subject of: 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Cornell University The New Student's Reference Work statement is subject of: The New Student's Reference Work/Cornell University
detail map	Cornell Campus map, ca. 1914.jpg point in time: 1914
donations	672,276,000 United States dollar point in time: 2012 478,613,388 United States dollar point in time: 2013 842,647,482 United States dollar point in time: 2014 584,510,026 United States dollar point in time: 2015 510,356,488 United States dollar point in time: 2016 605,956,875 United States dollar point in time: 2017 437,550,675 United States dollar point in time: 2018 420,726,543 United States dollar point in time: 2019 511,045,032 United States dollar point in time: 2020 660,310,439 United States dollar point in time: 2021 696,997,589 United States dollar point in time: 2022 617,653,886 United States dollar point in time: 2023 621,585,553 United States dollar point in time: 2024
employees	11,062 point in time: September 2020
endowment	6,882,707,803 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2020 9,838,198,000 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2022 10,028,480,000 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2021
flag image	Cornell University logo.svg
founder	Ezra Cornell Andrew Dickson White
funder	Open Society Foundations point in time: 2023; prize money: 150,000 United States dollar; award rationale: to support the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights to empower civil society globally – and in particular across the Global South – to conduct coordinated strategic litigation and other legal strategies that advance the protection of migrants, including refugees, and extend protection to those displaced by climate change Open Society Foundations point in time: 2021; prize money: 100,000 United States dollar; award rationale: to support the Cornell Center for the Death Penalty Worldwide's research, awareness raising and peer learning on the death penalty Open Society Foundations point in time: 2021; prize money: 64,600 United States dollar; award rationale: to support the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights, a project of the Grantee, to disseminate creative legal and policy responses, legal empowerment strategies and solutions from different jurisdictions to advance protections for refugees and forcibly displaced communities Open Society Foundations point in time: 2019; prize money: 65,000 United States dollar; award rationale: to support the Cornell Center for the Death Penalty Worldwide to strengthen intersectional advocacy on women facing the death penalty by fostering new alliances between death penalty activists and the gender rights movement
has part(s)	Cornell Law School
headquarters location	Ithaca coordinate location: 42.4472, -76.4831; street address: Day Hall (Cornell) Ithaca
image	Cornell University, Ho Plaza and Sage Hall.jpg
inception	1865
industry	higher education
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language used	English
located in the administrative territorial entity	Ithaca
location	Ithaca
logo image	Cornell University Sign 20240525.jpg
member of	Ivy League ORCID, Inc. point in time: October 2023 Digital Library Federation Consortium of Social Science Associations Shibboleth Consortium Northeast University Semiconductor Network start time: 2023 DataCite Association of American Universities start time: 1900 Association of American Colleges and Universities American Council on Education National Humanities Alliance Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship start time: 2022 Coalition for Networked Information Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Center for Research Libraries Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Council on Governmental Relations
motto text	I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study
named after	Ezra Cornell
native label	Cornell University
official map URL	https://www.cornell.edu/about/maps/ has characteristic: interactive web map https://www.cornell.edu/about/maps/cornell-university-map-2019.pdf file format: PDF
official name	Cornell University
official website	https://cornell.edu language of work or name: English
on focus list of Wikimedia project	Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 point in time: 31 October 2022
owner of	arXiv Schoellkopf Field Lynah Rink Rand Hall
postal code	14853
ranking	12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2024 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2020 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2021 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2022 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2023 13 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2019 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2018 14 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2017 13 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2016 13 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2015 13 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2014 13 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2013 13 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2012 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2010 13 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2011 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2008 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2003 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2004 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2005 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2006 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2007 21 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2022 20 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2023 13 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2024 14 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2012 15 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2014 19 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2015 17 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2016 16 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2017 14 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2018 14 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2019 14 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2020 18 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2021 16 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2025 13 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2026 18 determination method or standard: Times Higher Education World University Rankings; point in time: 2026 12 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2025
seal image	Cornell University No White Background Logo.svg
significant event	mixed-sex education start time: 1870
social media followers	317,636 point in time: 8 January 2021; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17369110 293,502 point in time: 19 April 2020; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17369110 60,300 point in time: 2 July 2021; YouTube channel ID: UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA 348,822 point in time: 8 January 2022; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17369110 66,800 point in time: 17 March 2022; YouTube channel ID: UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA 387,985 point in time: 4 February 2023; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17369110 76,300 point in time: 17 February 2023; YouTube channel ID: UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA 49,538 point in time: 24 May 2023; subreddit: cornell 83,200 point in time: 29 April 2024; YouTube channel ID: UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA 88,600 point in time: 31 May 2025; YouTube channel ID: UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA
street address	300 Day Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853
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total assets	11,179,645,967 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2020 10,900,413,000 United States dollar point in time: 2012 11,506,007,674 United States dollar point in time: 2013 12,498,894,139 United States dollar point in time: 2014 12,669,538,763 United States dollar point in time: 2015 12,369,905,113 United States dollar point in time: 2016 12,816,316,557 United States dollar point in time: 2017 13,318,967,667 United States dollar point in time: 2018 13,646,556,749 United States dollar point in time: 2019 17,400,544,171 United States dollar point in time: 2021 17,439,114,941 United States dollar point in time: 2022 17,336,489,402 United States dollar point in time: 2023 18,612,463,436 United States dollar point in time: 2024
total revenue	3,380,591,488 United States dollar point in time: 2012 3,372,319,847 United States dollar point in time: 2013 4,368,738,915 United States dollar point in time: 2014 4,351,368,015 United States dollar point in time: 2015 4,369,242,548 United States dollar point in time: 2016 4,700,356,619 United States dollar point in time: 2017 5,023,263,037 United States dollar point in time: 2018 5,001,986,844 United States dollar point in time: 2019 5,126,693,316 United States dollar point in time: 2020 6,105,457,911 United States dollar point in time: 2021 6,503,011,003 United States dollar point in time: 2022 5,877,363,039 United States dollar point in time: 2023 6,551,885,454 United States dollar point in time: 2024

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