New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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The New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University (CALS) is a contract college of New York and is considered by many to be the top school of agriculture-related sciences in the world. With about 3,100 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students enrolled, it is the third-largest college of its kind in the United States and the second-largest undergraduate college or school at Cornell. It is the only school of agriculture in the Ivy League.
Established in 1874 as the Department of Agriculture, the department became a college in 1888. In 1904, eminent botanist and horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey, along with New York State farmers, convinced the New York Legislature to financially support the agriculture college at Cornell, a private university that had been established in 1865 as New York's land-grant institution. Thus, it became a contract college, and changed its name from the College of Agriculture to the New York State College of Agriculture. The name of the college was finally changed to New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1971.
As part of Cornell's land-grant mission, the college jointly administers New York's cooperative extension program with the College of Human Ecology and it runs both the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, in Geneva, New York, and the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, in addition to many other research facilities around the state.http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/public/facilities.cfm
The Agriculture Quadrangle
Degrees
The undergraduate programs lead to the Bachelor of Science in at least one of the 23 currently offered majors. The college also offers the following graduate degrees in various field of study through the Graduate School:Departments
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References
External links
- [New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University]
- [Explore Cornell: Ag Quad]
- [Cornell Cooperative Extension]
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Undergraduate Colleges and Schools Agriculture and Life Sciences • Architecture, Art, and Planning • Arts and Sciences • Engineering • Hotel Administration • Human Ecology • Industrial and Labor Relations
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