The Graduate School of Journalism, founded by Joseph Pulitzer, is the nation's oldest and is very highly regarded. The Faculty of Medicine was the first to offer the Doctor of Medicine in North America. And the new Morris A. Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research is expected to enhance Columbia's leadership position in telecommunications and high tech research. Established in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university is a private endowed university and the federal land-grant institution of New York State. It is also a partner of the State University of New York.
Undergraduates can select from seven colleges and schools, ranging from architecture to engineering.
Cornell awarded the nation's first university degree in veterinary medicine and the first doctorates in electrical engineering and industrial engineering. It also established the first four-year schools of hotel administration and industrial and labor relations in the country. Twenty-seven Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Cornell as faculty members or students. It was the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule, and was built on land provided under charter from King George III of England. The private, four-year college is located in Hanover, New Hampshire .