University · Ithaca, United States

Cornell University

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

Official website and accounts

In EduFabTech articles

Everything we know

From this institution's Wikidata record. Figures that change every year show the latest value; earlier years and longer lists open with a click.

About

instance of
inception
  • 1865
founder
named after
official name
  • Cornell University
native label
  • Cornell University
motto text
  • I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study
industry
language used
academic calendar type

Location and contact

country
located in the administrative territorial entity
headquarters location
  • Ithaca · coordinate location: 42.4472, -76.4831 · street address: Day Hall (Cornell)
  • Ithaca
location
street address
  • 300 Day Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853
postal code
  • 14853
coordinate location
  • 42.4492, -76.4839
official website
official map URL

People and numbers

count of students
  • 23,620 · September 2020
  • 24,900 · full-time equivalent · 1 September 2021
employees
  • 11,062 · September 2020
admission rate
  • 11% · 2020
admission yield rate
  • 59% · 2020

Rankings and recognition

ranking
  • 13 · QS World University Rankings · 2026
  • 18 · Times Higher Education World University Rankings · 2026
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2025
Earlier figures (34)
  • 16 · QS World University Rankings · 2025
  • 13 · QS World University Rankings · 2024
  • 20 · QS World University Rankings · 2023
  • 21 · QS World University Rankings · 2022
  • 18 · QS World University Rankings · 2021
  • 14 · QS World University Rankings · 2020
  • 14 · QS World University Rankings · 2019
  • 14 · QS World University Rankings · 2018
  • 16 · QS World University Rankings · 2017
  • 17 · QS World University Rankings · 2016
  • 19 · QS World University Rankings · 2015
  • 15 · QS World University Rankings · 2014
  • 14 · QS World University Rankings · 2012
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2024
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2023
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2022
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2021
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2020
  • 13 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2019
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2018
  • 14 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2017
  • 13 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2016
  • 13 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2015
  • 13 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2014
  • 13 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2013
  • 13 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2012
  • 13 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2011
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2010
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2008
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2007
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2006
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2005
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2004
  • 12 · Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities · 2003
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education

Finances

endowment
  • $9,838,198,000 · 30 June 2022
Earlier figures (2)
  • $10,028,480,000 · 30 June 2021
  • $6,882,707,803 · 30 June 2020
total revenue
  • $6,551,885,454 · 2024
Earlier figures (12)
  • $5,877,363,039 · 2023
  • $6,503,011,003 · 2022
  • $6,105,457,911 · 2021
  • $5,126,693,316 · 2020
  • $5,001,986,844 · 2019
  • $5,023,263,037 · 2018
  • $4,700,356,619 · 2017
  • $4,369,242,548 · 2016
  • $4,351,368,015 · 2015
  • $4,368,738,915 · 2014
  • $3,372,319,847 · 2013
  • $3,380,591,488 · 2012
total assets
  • $18,612,463,436 · 2024
Earlier figures (12)
  • $17,336,489,402 · 2023
  • $17,439,114,941 · 2022
  • $17,400,544,171 · 2021
  • $11,179,645,967 · 30 June 2020
  • $13,646,556,749 · 2019
  • $13,318,967,667 · 2018
  • $12,816,316,557 · 2017
  • $12,369,905,113 · 2016
  • $12,669,538,763 · 2015
  • $12,498,894,139 · 2014
  • $11,506,007,674 · 2013
  • $10,900,413,000 · 2012
donations
  • $621,585,553 · 2024
Earlier figures (12)
  • $617,653,886 · 2023
  • $696,997,589 · 2022
  • $660,310,439 · 2021
  • $511,045,032 · 2020
  • $420,726,543 · 2019
  • $437,550,675 · 2018
  • $605,956,875 · 2017
  • $510,356,488 · 2016
  • $584,510,026 · 2015
  • $842,647,482 · 2014
  • $478,613,388 · 2013
  • $672,276,000 · 2012
funder
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $150,000 · 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 · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $100,000 · award rationale: to support the Cornell Center for the Death Penalty Worldwide's research, awareness raising and peer learning on the death penalty · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $64,600 · 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 · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $65,000 · 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 · 2019

Structure and memberships

child organization or unit
13 more
has part(s)
member of
12 more
owner of
athletics program

Other facts

significant event
Images and media on Wikimedia Commons (6)
coat of arms image
detail map
flag image
image
logo image
seal image
Wikimedia and technical details (10)
Commons category
  • Cornell University
topic's main category
category for alumni of educational institution
category for employees of the organization
on focus list of Wikimedia project
described by source
API endpoint URL
Commons Institution page
  • Cornell University
topic has template
social media followers
  • 387,985 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17369110 · 4 February 2023
  • 49,538 · subreddit: cornell · 24 May 2023
  • 88,600 · YouTube channel ID: UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA · 31 May 2025
Earlier figures (7)
  • 348,822 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17369110 · 8 January 2022
  • 317,636 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17369110 · 8 January 2021
  • 293,502 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17369110 · 19 April 2020
  • 83,200 · YouTube channel ID: UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA · 29 April 2024
  • 76,300 · YouTube channel ID: UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA · 17 February 2023
  • 66,800 · YouTube channel ID: UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA · 17 March 2022
  • 60,300 · YouTube channel ID: UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA · 2 July 2021
Identifiers in other databases (119)
15min.lt topic ID
ACM Digital Library institution ID
article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
ARWU university ID
autonomous system number
BabelNet ID
BHL creator ID
  • 26751 · subject named as: Cornell university.
  • 80544
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
  • 119842648 · subject named as: Cornell university (Ithaca, N.Y.)
BIBSYS ID
  • 90053044 · subject named as: Cornell University
Canadiana Authorities ID (former scheme)
Canadiana Name Authority ID
CiNii Research ID
Comic Vine ID
Crunchbase organization ID
Delfi.ee topic ID
Dialnet author ID
Digital Scriptorium Catalog item ID
domain name
ELMCIP ID
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
  • 49E0Jr · subject named as: 康奈尔大学 · last update: 4 April 2023
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
  • 21220 · subject named as: 康奈尔大学
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
Facebook username
Famous Birthdays ID
FAST ID
FES digital collections entity ID
Freebase ID
GeoNames ID
Global Energy Monitor Wiki ID
GND ID
Google Arts & Culture entity ID
Google Maps Customer ID
Google Scholar organization ID
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
  • 2098431 · subject named as: КОРНЕЛЛСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ
GRID ID
HAL structure ID
Harper's tag
IdRef ID
  • 027900177 · subject named as: Cornell university
IMDb keyword
Instagram username
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID
Interlingual Index ID
IRS Employer Identification Number
ISNI
ITU/ISO/IEC object ID
J9U entity ID
Japan Search name ID
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
KBpedia ID
KISTI ID
Legal Entity Identifier
Lex ID
Libraries Australia ID
Library of Congress Authorities ID
  • n79021621 · subject named as: Cornell University · alternative name: Ithaca (N.Y.). Cornell University · alternative name: Kʻang-nai-erh ta hsüeh · alternative name: Kornelʹskii universitet · alternative name: 康奈爾大學
LibraryThing author ID
LinkedIn company or organization ID
LittleSis organization ID
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
Museum of Modern Art artist ID
MusicBrainz place ID
NACSIS-CAT author ID
  • DA0059950X · subject named as: Cornell University
National Library Board Singapore ID
National Library of Brazil ID
  • 000166228 · subject named as: Cornell University · alternative name: Ithaca (Nova Iorque). Cornell University
National Library of Greece ID
  • 127853 · subject named as: Cornell University
National Library of Iceland ID
  • 000100846 · subject named as: Cornell University
National Library of Ireland ID
National Library of Korea ID
National Library of Lithuania ID
National Library of Poland MMS ID
  • 9810671022405606 · subject named as: Uniwersytet Cornella · alternative name: Kornel'skii universitet · alternative name: Cornell University
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
NE.se ID
New York Post topic ID
New York Times topic ID
NL CR AUT ID
NLA Trove people ID
  • 804036 · subject named as: Cornell University
NLP ID
NUKAT ID
Open Funder Registry funder ID
OpenAlex ID
openMLOL author ID
OpenStreetMap relation ID
PermID
QS World University ID
Quora topic ID
RERO ID (legacy)
Ringgold ID
ROR ID
SAM ID
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts name ID
ScholarGPS institution ID
Science Museum people ID
SCImago Institutions Rankings ID
Scopus affiliation ID
SEVIS school ID
SHARE Catalogue author ID
Slovak National Library (VIAF) ID
SNARC ID
subreddit
  • Cornell · language of work or name: English · subject named as: Cornell · 24 May 2023
Te Papa agent ID
Times Higher Education World University ID
U-Multirank university ID
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
  • 24576 · subject named as: Cornell University
Union List of Artist Names ID
  • 500300609 · subject named as: Cornell University
UniRank ID
Vatican Library ID (former scheme)
Vatican Library VcBA ID
VIAF cluster ID
Wellcome Collection concept ID
Wikisimpsons article ID
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
WorldCat Entities ID
X (Twitter) topic ID
X (Twitter) username
  • cornell · has characteristic: verified account or profile · number of subscribers: 293,502 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17369110 · 19 April 2020
  • Cornell
YouTube channel ID
  • UCfTfuTTALrsxUWjisrdOWtA · has characteristic: verified account or profile · subject named as: Cornell University · number of works: 870 · number of subscribers: 52,800 · number of viewers/listeners: 16,586,929 · 10 December 2020
Zhihu topic ID
  • 19758197 · subject named as: 康奈尔大学 (Cornell University)
‎Private Enterprise Number
‎Scilit organization ID
‎Yale LUX ID