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An engineering-heavy Ivy with a dedicated New York City tech campus at Cornell Tech.
Cornell University combines a large engineering and applied sciences base in Ithaca with Cornell Tech, a graduate campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City built explicitly to produce technology companies.
That dual structure is unusual: fundamental research and rural agricultural science on one campus, commercial technology education embedded in a major city on the other.
Cornell Tech was created through a New York City competition to build an applied sciences campus, and its curriculum is structured around product development and company formation rather than traditional coursework alone.
In Ithaca, the ecosystem centres on engineering, agricultural technology, and food science, reflecting Cornell's land-grant heritage and research strengths.
Cornell produces a high volume of technical founders, particularly in engineering, hardware, and agricultural technology. Cornell Tech has shifted a meaningful share of that output into New York City, where graduates found companies with direct access to the city's customers and capital.
Ithaca has limited local capital, though state programmes and Cornell-affiliated funds support early formation. Cornell Tech founders sit directly inside the New York investor market, with access to the same firms serving Columbia and NYU founders.
GCN’s global network includes millions of startups and founders and a broad community of investors, creating opportunities to discover potential connections across university communities.
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