Cornell University was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White and is today one of the 8 "Ivy League" universities of the US.
Cornell University currently stands 16th in the QS Ranking.
Around 27,000 students study at Cornell today, and the chance of admission is just ~8%
What's more, Cornell graduates have:
- founded 5,124 companies in total
- these companies have raised $279 billion in investment
- and 40 of them have become unicorns (startups valued above $1 billion)
On top of that, Pierre Omidyar, founder of the world-famous eBay, studied at this very university
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