Facilities

Cornell University's learning facilities include space for classes, research, study, social interaction, and academic support. Below are some highlights of the facilities, listed by College or School. For additional information, see Cornell locations.

Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

Founded as a bold experiment that united cutting-edge innovation with a deeper understanding of the interplay of technology with humanity, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Cornell Bowers) is shaping the new frontier of tech. Home to three departments — Computer Science, Information Science, and Statistics and Data Science — students and faculty creatively and thoughtfully explore technology’s potential to advance our world by pioneering emerging fields, advancing AI, and developing the algorithms that power the information age.

Bill & Melinda Gates Hall

  • Built in 2014, Gates Hall features 101,455 square feet that house a variety of offices, conference rooms, and small classrooms. Informal study and collaborative spaces are interspersed throughout the building, which was designed for ample daylight penetration and creating energizing work environments that promote student physical and mental well-being.

New Computing and Information Science Building

  • Opened in 2025, the Computing and Information Science building supports growth of the college's innovative, cross-disciplinary research and teaching by bringing the college's three departments together into one complex. Located adjacent to Gates Hall in central campus, and comprising of 135,000 square feet, the building includes new instructional and research spaces including robotics, builder, and research labs, a design studio, and a large active learning classroom, as well as office space and a variety of meeting and informal study spaces.

New York City

  • The college's academic footprint extends well beyond the university's Ithaca campus to New York City, where its ties with Cornell Tech have created a powerful technology ecosystem that is unique in all of higher education. This ecosystem supports a growing range of cross-campus initiatives and highly-engaged, impact-focused research and instruction.

Brooks School of Public Policy

The Jeb E. Brooks School is housed in the second and third floors of Martha Van Rensselaer (MVR) Hall. This building includes administrative and faculty offices, classrooms, auditoriums, and lecture halls.

The school's Cornell in Washington program is housed in the Cornell University Wolpe Center, centrally located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood at 2148 O Street, NW, in Washington, DC. Students reside in the twenty-seven apartments on the upper three floors of the building. The program's classrooms, administrative offices, computer lab, and social spaces are located on the first floor.

The school's Institute of Politics and Global Affairs is located in the General Electric Building in Manhattan (570 Lexington Ave, New York, NY).

College of Agriculture & Life Sciences

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell CALS) maintains many unique and outstanding facilities, including two teaching wineries, a student run organic farm, an orchard, maple research forests and world-class collections of plants, insects and vertebrates. CALS students have easy access to Mann Library, home to an impressive collection of agricultural and biological sciences volumes and other materials. Also located inside Mann Library is the CALSZone (Mann 112), a student community space accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week that offers advising, programming and well-being events.

The iconic Ag Quad is home to several CALS buildings—including the main administrative building, Roberts Hall, which houses the Dean's Office, Undergraduate Admissions, and Student Services. The Quad is located on land that was once part of the Ezra Cornell family farm, so it is fitting that greenhouses and gardens are nestled amongst the classrooms, offices, and research facilities. Cornell CALS conducts research, teaching and extension programs in over 500 facilities statewide.

The college's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, known as Cornell AgriTech, is a 900-acre campus at the northern tip of Seneca Lake dedicated to all aspects of applied agricultural research. Additional CALS' research and extension properties are located throughout New York, including Arnot Teaching and Research Forest, the Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory, Willsboro Research Farm, the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point, and the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center.

College of Architecture, Art & Planning

Ithaca

  • AAP's physical facilities in Ithaca include: The Foundry, Milstein Hall, Rand Hall, Sibley Hall, and Tjaden Hall, located at the north end of Cornell University's historic Arts Quad.
  • Learn more about the facilities, architecture studio spaces and art studios and classrooms.

AAP NYC

  • The Gensler Family AAP NYC Center is housed within the recently redesigned fourth floor of the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus, a hub for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. The new home on Roosevelt Island marks a watershed moment for the college and creates a platform for students and faculty to engage with the city’s buildings, spaces, and communities firsthand, address urban challenges, and rethink possibilities in situ.
  • Learn more about the resources at AAP NYC.

Cornell in Rome

  • The Cornell in Rome program is based in Palazzo Santacroce. Ample studio and classroom space, a library, and a materials shop are all housed in a spectacular 17th-century villa.
  • Learn more about the facilities at Cornell in Rome.

College of Arts & Sciences

The 26 structures that comprise the College of Arts & Sciences' physical space include the first buildings on the Cornell campus and some of the newest. From the classic lines of Morrill Hall to the futuristic design of the Physical Sciences Building, the College's structures reflect the uncommon breadth and diversity of our community. Klarman Hall, a magnificent building for the humanities, provides a gateway to the Arts Quad from East Avenue and recognizes the vitality and importance of the humanities at Cornell. It creates a space that transforms the experience of the Arts Quad, the emotional heart of the campus, by promoting student connections with the arts & humanities.

The college is in the midst of renovating McGraw Hall. The third building constructed at Cornell, this 1868 facility will soon house the History and Anthropology departments for a new century of teaching, research and outreach.

From philosophy to physics, and all the disciplines in between, our facilities support and reflect our breadth of mission.

Duffield College of Engineering

The richness of Cornell's scientific community is enhanced by the presence of interdisciplinary centers, institutes, laboratories, and programs in which members come together from across the campus to collaborate on research, teaching, and outreach. These collaborative partnerships allow faculty members and their students to share facilities, equipment, ideas, and inspiration.

The campus is home to more than 100 other interdisciplinary centers, institutes, laboratories, and programs that support faculty research and enhance graduate and undergraduate education. The research units are of particular interest to the engineering community.

College of Human Ecology

The college is housed in Human Ecology Building (HEB), Martha Van Rensselaer (MVR), Savage, and Kinzelberg Halls, as well as the Biotechnology Building and Weill Hall. The buildings include administrative and faculty offices, classrooms, auditoriums, galleries, and lecture halls; wet chemistry and biochemistry laboratories; design studios and computer-aided design laboratories; woodworking shops; human factors and infant research facilities; and classrooms for distance learning. Also included are learning resource centers for career planning, a historical costume collection, a human metabolic research unit, an animal research facility, cold rooms, and a constant temperature and humidity laboratory.

Specialized equipment for teaching and research includes biochemical and chemical instruments for spectroscopy, chromatography, radioisotope analysis, electrophoresis, microscopy, and ultracentrifugation; physical testing equipment; and cameras, videotape, and sound recording equipment. 

Learn more about Human Ecology facilities.

Cornell Tech

Cornell Tech is Cornell University’s state-of-the-art campus in New York City, developing leaders and technologies for the AI era through foundational and applied research, graduate education, and new ventures. More than 1,000 Cornell students are now educated annually on the campus and 132 new companies have spun out from campus startup programs since it opened in 2012.

Graduate School

The Graduate School is a community of over 5,000 graduate and professional students enrolled in nearly 100 fields of study. The Graduate School central offices are located in Caldwell Hall on the Ithaca campus. The nearly 100 graduate field offices, and their affiliated faculty and support staff, are distributed across Ithaca, Cornell Tech and Cornell Agri-Tech campuses. The Graduate School is organized into fields of study that are independent of traditional college and department divisions. As such, the facilities available are the same that are available within the colleges.

Law School

When the Law School opened in 1887, the school and its library were located on the 4th floor of Morrill Hall, one of the original University buildings, and law was an undergraduate program. The Law Library collection included approximately 4,000 volumes. The Law School and Law Library outgrew Morrill Hall after five years and moved to Boardman Hall in 1892. The Law Library has grown to 22,000 volumes. In 1932, the Law School and Law Library relocated to Myron Taylor Hall.

Today, the Law School and Law Library are housed in Myron Taylor Hall and the Jane Foster addition. The Law Library holds more than 700,000 volumes and volume equivalents.

The Charles Evans Hughes Hall (commonly known as Hughes Hall) provides student and career services support.

Nolan School of Hotel Administration

Statler Hall

  • Statler Hall has been the home to the Nolan School of Hotel Administration since 1950 and is uniquely designed to meet the traditional and experiential learning needs of faculty and students. The building includes the 700-seat Alice Statler Auditorium, state-of-the-art classrooms, a 100-seat Binenkorb computer center that houses the Chartres Lodging capital markets trading room, food and beverage management labs, and our Marriott Student Learning Center, which houses our Nestle hospitality library. Additionally, Statler Hall is home to the Baker Program in Real Estate, the Center for Real Estate Finance, the Center for Hospitality Research, and the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute of Hospitality Entrepreneurship.

The Nolan School of Hotel Administration's Nestlé Library

  • The Nestlé Library resides within the Marriott Student Learning Center, which opened in August, 2012. As one of the finest libraries in the hospitality management field, the Nestlé Library is noted for its excellent collection, knowledgeable staff and service to alumni, industry practitioners, other hospitality schools and trade associations, as well as the students and faculty of the Nolan School of Hotel Administration. The library's collection contains approximately 37,000 books and more than 500 journal, magazine, newsletter, and newspaper subscriptions. Materials on lodging, foodservice, travel and tourism, real estate, and general hospitality business topics comprise the core of the collection.

Statler Hotel and J. Willard Marriott Executive Education Center

  • The Statler Hotel is a 153-room Four Diamond Hotel connected to Statler Hall. The hotel was designed to provide a distinctive lodging and executive education experience in the center of the Cornell campus, while simultaneously providing students of the Nolan School of Hotel Administration with real-world industry and management experiences. During the academic year, students have the opportunity to work in front-line and supervisory positions under the guidance of seasoned hospitality professionals.
  • Learn more about Nolan School of Hotel Administration facilities.

SC Johnson College of Business

From Breazzano, Sage, Statler and Warren halls on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York, to the bustling streets and the Cornell Tech campus in New York City, and from our finance MBA program in China to classrooms across the Americas, the SC Johnson College is transcending geographic—and figurative—boundaries. Through online executive education, lifelong learners can opt to complete programs from anywhere in the world.

College of Veterinary Medicine

One of only 30 veterinary colleges and schools in the United States, the College of Veterinary Medicine is located on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, New York. In the heart of the Finger Lakes region, an area of tremendous natural beauty, Ithaca provides a balanced atmosphere of city and country. The College's central campus has seven main buildings, all part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, on 15 acres with a total of 1.2 million square feet of space.

Learn more about College of Veterinary Medicine facilities.

School of Continuing Education & Summer Session

On-campus Summer and Winter Session classes are held in Cornell's state-of-the-art classrooms and facilities.

School of Industrial & Labor Relations

The ILR School at Ithaca resides in the Ives Hall complex near the west-end of Tower Road. The complex is home to the Catherwood Library and Kheel Center – library and physical archive for labor history. Other buildings include a fully-equipped conference center in King-Shaw Hall, faculty and staff offices, classrooms, auditoriums, conference and study rooms and lounges in Ives Hall West and Ives Hall East, as well as faculty offices and meeting spaces in the Faculty Wing. Ives is also home to ILR's offices for student services, admissions, and graduate studies. There are also multi-media studios for video recording and production and distance-learning productions.

The ILR School has offices in Buffalo, which provide space and resources to those working in the Buffalo CoLab and other ILR outreach and extension projects. These resources include office and meeting spaces and moderate conference facilities.

ILR in NYC provides offices and resources for a number of institutes and extension programs. The ILR Conference Center provides flexible meeting space for conferences, seminars, workshops, training, meetings, classroom instruction, and reception space at a reasonable price. All of these resources are in the heart of New York City on the 12th floor of 570 Lexington Avenue.

Cornell University Library

Cornell University Library is at the center of Cornell’s vibrant intellectual life. Expert librarians are available in person—and online 24/7—to help navigate our world-class collections and assist with papers, exam prep, and research projects. We're a home away from home, with warm, inviting spaces for solo study and high-tech, flexible spaces for group work. Students and faculty agree: The Library is an important contributor to their academic success.

Student Unions and Dining Facilities

The Robert Purcell Community Center, Appel Commons, Willard Straight Hall, and Noyes Community Recreation Center are hubs of activity around campus, especially for students living in Cornell housing. Community centers are great places to meet people, get a bite to eat, experience Cornell's thriving social scene, find a place to study, or work out in a fitness center.

At the heart of the first-year experience for undergraduate and transfer students is the Tatkon Center for New Students, a support and resource center uniquely focused on new students, offering informal peer mentoring and guidance, plus programs and services to ease the transition to Cornell and help new students discover campus opportunities throughout their first year.

Willard Straight Hall Student Union

  • The Willard Straight Hall Student Union is located in the heart of Central Campus. It is considered the central hub of Cornell's wide-reaching campus activities. One of the first college unions in the country, the Straight supports the events and functions of the many units within the Office of the Dean of Students, including student activities, student support, and fraternity and sorority affairs. The Straight also contains the Cornell Cinema, two dining rooms and a café, a ticket office for campus events, an art gallery, a ceramics studio, a browsing library, and a computer lab.

Hasbrouck Community Center 

  • Hasbrouck Community Center is a gathering spot and informational resource for our graduate and professional student residents, offering:
    • full-time staff support
    • programs and events for both adults and children, including regular potluck dinners
    • residential service centers, where you can check your mail, ask questions, and get information
    • shared community spaces, where residents gather to study or socialize
    • support and resources for international residents, including English as a Second Language (ESL) classes twice a week
    • orientation programs to help new residents learn about Cornell, Ithaca, and life in the United States
    • the weekly "Panda Bears" gathering for parents and their young children

Big Red Barn Graduate and Professional Student Center

  • The Big Red Barn, an old carriage house turned student center, is located in the heart of campus and surrounded by lawns and gardens. The Big Red Barn is Cornell's on-campus social center for graduate and professional students. In addition to being a Cornell Dining eatery, the Big Red Barn is a great place to attend social events, meet up with friends, and study.

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