Cornell University Campus Life
Demographic Breakdown
| % of undergrads on campus: | 54% |
| % of undergrads owning a car?: | N/A |
| % of males in fraternities: | 28% |
| % of females in sororities: | 22% |
| % of students on-campus (weekends): | 90% |
| On-campus housing availibility: | Yes |
| Housing assistance programs?: | 54% |
| Housing available for all students?: | No |
| Off-campus assistance?: | Yes |
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Housing Stats
| Types of available housing: | coed dorms (64%), women's dorms (6%), men's dorms (0%), sorority housing (5%), fraternity housing (11%), apartments for married students (5%), apartment for single students (6%), special housing for disabled students (0%), special housing for international students (1%), cooperative housing (2%), other housing options (0%) |
| % college-owned singles: | 52% |
| % college-owned doubles: | 45% |
| % college-owned triples: | 2% |
| % college-owned apartments: | 0% |
| % college-owned other: | 1% |
| Number of college-owned residences: | 84 |
| % of rooms with sprinkler systems: | 100% |
| % of rooms with fire alarms: | 100% |
| % of rooms with high-speed internet: | 95% |
Campus Geography
| Campus size: | 745 acres |
| Nearest airport location (miles): | Syracuse (60), Ithaca (2) |
| Nearest train station (miles): | Syracuse (60) |
| Nearest bus station (miles): | Ithaca (2) |
| Public transport on campus?: | Yes |
| Cars allowed on campus?: | Yes |
Employment
| School employment opportunities?: | Yes |
| Average undergraduate earnings ($$): | 1,800 |
| Freshmen not encouraged to work?: | No |
% undergraduates employed: | 51% |
ROTC/Alcohol Policy
| Army ROTC presence?: | Offered on campus |
| Navy ROTC presence?: | Offered on campus |
| Airforce ROTC presence?: | Offered on campus |
| Alcohol permitted (wet campus)?: | Yes |
| Other campus rules: | class attendance policies set by individual instructors, hazing prohibited, smoking prohibited, other |
| Well-known campus events | The 21-bell Cornell Chimes, atop 173-foot Jennie McGraw Tower, are played daily by student chimesmasters. Nearly the entire campus turns out just before spring break to watch architecture students parade a student-built beast on Dragon Day. Every fall, the New Student Reading Project introduces all freshmen to a provocative work, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Sophocles' Antigone, Franz Kafka's The Trial and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Noted Asian, American and graphic-arts collections are augmented by many exhibitions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, a distinctive showpiece designed by I. M. Pei. Student and faculty soloists and orchestral and choral groups play in a multiplicity of auditoriums, and there are recitals by every manner of visiting performer, from symphonies to rock stars. (Many say the Grateful Dead's 1977 performance in the university's Barton Hall was their best ever. ) Cornell Cinema, with screens in two campus locations, offers evocative motion picture programming in an academic setting. An annual series of theater and dance productions in large and small theaters at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts feature students and visiting professionals on stage and backstage. Alumni Christopher Reeves and Jimmy Smits performed at Cornell. Visiting lecturers abound, and students enjoy special access to A. D. White Professors-at-Large (recently including John Cleese, Jane Goodall, and Oliver Sachs). Cornell's 36 varsity teams play in such distinctive venues as the Friedman Center, the nation's only freestanding college wrestling arena; Schoellkopf Field, with its crescent-shaped grandstand; and the legendary Lynah ice hockey rink, where 4, 000 fans cheer on the Big Red. Next door in the Bartels field house, the expansive Lindseth Climbing Wall is an indoor training device for the heralded Cornell Outdoor Education program. Cornell University Library has an extraordinary array of holdings and special collections in 17 Ithaca campus facilities and is a national leader in digital technology and electronic resources. |