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What Cornell grads actually do

Based on 623 notable Cornell alumni with Wikipedia pages. Data: Wikidata (CC0).

university teacher
144
writer
72
politician
43
physicist
42
engineer
35
journalist
31
computer scientist
31
lawyer
30
novelist
27
businessperson
26
mathematician
26
chemist
23

Notable Cornell alumni

Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller
geneticist · physician
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck
autobiographer · children's writer
Kurt Mehlhorn
Kurt Mehlhorn
university teacher · computer scientist
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
audiobook narrator · editing staff
Erwin J. Haeberle
Erwin J. Haeberle
university teacher · scholar of English
Paul Graham
Paul Graham
essayist · computer scientist
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
actor · comedian
Michael Tien
Michael Tien
justice of the peace · politician

Salary outlook for top Cornell career paths

National median annual wage (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics).

writer
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr
politician
10th–90th percentile: $21,010$129,510
$47,290
median / yr
physicist
10th–90th percentile: $80,950$232,940
$155,680
median / yr
engineer
10th–90th percentile: $62,130$177,020
$111,970
median / yr
journalist
10th–90th percentile: $31,550$160,360
$57,500
median / yr
computer scientist
10th–90th percentile: $81,450$233,110
$145,080
median / yr

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About Cornell

Cornell University ( korr-NEHL) is a private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson White in 1865. Since its founding, Cornell University has been a co-educational and nonsectarian institution. As of fall 2024, the student body included 16,128 undergraduate and 10,665 postgraduate students from all 50 U.S. states and 130 countries. The university is organized into eight undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions on its main Ithaca campus. Each college and academic division has near autonomy in defining its respective admission standards and academic curriculum. In addition to its primary campus in Ithaca, Cornell University administers three satellite campuses, including two in New York City, the medical school and Cornell Tech, and a branch of the medical school in Al Rayyan in Education City, Qatar. Cornell is one of three private land-grant universities in the United States. Among the university's eight undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges partly financed through the State University of New York – the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Human Ecology, and the Industrial and Labor Relations School – as is one of the graduate divisions, the Veterinary Medicine College. The main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca spans 745 acres (301 ha). As of October 2024, 64 Nobel laureates, four Turing Award winners, and one Fields Medalist have been affiliated with Cornell University. The institution counts more than 250,000 living alumni, which include 34 Marshall Scholars, 33 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 63 Olympic medalists, 10 current Fortune 500 CEOs, and 35 billionaires.

Source: Wikipedia · Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

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