<p>Do you think that this new tech campus can increase Cornell’s rank and influence somewhat to make it more noticed or recognized. I ask this because some of the people i spoken to don’t consider Cornell an ivy league, heard of it, take it seriously as an academic competitor. Would this tech school lead to Cornell’s endowment increasing?</p>
<p>I am new to this and what i am trying to ask is, how would Cornell benefit from the Tech campus in the long run? I just am curious to hear some predictions that’s all. I know Cornell is an Ivy league university, but it lags behind some of it’s peers. This campus from my view will increase Cornell’s prestige, global influence, and perhaps endowment with all the new cutting edge research that would take place on Cornell Technion Institute.</p>
<p>Just my prediction:</p>
<p>Cornell’s tech campus, in the long run, will produce many profitable tech startups, generate more endowments, strengthen it’s ‘best engineering’ in the ivies image, and improve name recognition. (although it is already very famous in the world, especially to Asians who only want to know the academic reputations which is how Asian countries recruit their best students into their top colleges, it is somehow not well-known to American general public in Midwest and west coast)</p>
<p>Getting better name recognition in the country attracts more undergraduate applicants so lower admission acceptance rate is more likely to happen. With higher endowment and lower acceptance rate, the rank will certainly elevate (I am only talking about using current USNWR ranking criteria. But their methodology may change again to have big shift in the ranking and make them more money by selling the ranking books.) College ranking in America is a ranking business money making game, but colleges cannot ignore it because na</p>
<p>The goal behind the Tech campus is to foster the east coast version of “Silicon Valley” in terms of being a hub of technical academia and industry. We shall see if it produces anything within the decade…</p>
<p>Thank you guys for the input, and i agree with what you guys are saying. I believe the Tech campus will be a success, and it stirs up some competition, which i believe society will be the benefactor in the end.</p>
<p>First off, those people you spoke with sound really ignorant (and the Ivy League is just an athletic conference - Cornell can stand on its own academic rigor no matter who’s across the badminton court). </p>
<p>I think Cornell is well positioned for two reasons:</p>
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<li><p>Younger generations (40ish and below) increasingly want to live in vibrant cities that are walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented. You won’t see another suburban Silicon Valley. Even in tech hubs like highway corridors outside Boston and DC, you’re seeing a migration of start-ups into the city or inner-ring suburbs. New York City is obviously perfectly positioned for this emerging lifestyle and has already skyrocketed as a tech start-up capital.</p></li>
<li><p>There’s no replicating Silicon Valley because it houses the fundamental commercial infrastructure for the web - the big, broad businesses that manage vast amounts of information and provide the tools to access that information. The next phase of web commercialization is technologies catering to specific industries or services. NYC is the epicenter of more industries than anywhere else, so Cornell will be perfectly positioned to capitalize on that phase of the web’s development. That phase needs to happen where non-tech industries already are.</p></li>
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<p>So, yes, I think this could be very good for Cornell. Recognizing this shift toward cities, the school has long been trying to increase its “urban brand” by building satellite campuses and bolstering the medical school with a billion dollar renovation in Manhattan. This is a very natural and logical next step where Cornell already has a sizable footprint at what I think is a perfect time in the evolution of technology. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have a rise like Duke and UPenn saw over the past couple decades.</p>
<p>^^^ Are you implying that Cornell(13) ranks BELOW Penn (14) and Duke (36)?</p>
<p>[Academic</a> Ranking of World Universities - 2012| Top 500 universities | Shanghai Ranking - 2012 | World University Ranking - 2012](<a href=“http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2012.html]Academic”>http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2012.html)</p>
<p>(Just to be clear, I don’t mean to imply that Penn ranks below Cornell either – the difference between 13 and 14 is minimal, rankings being what they are.)</p>
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No, that’s not what I said. I said Duke and UPenn have had precipitous climbs in their rankings, along with Columbia. They were never top 10 schools until very recently.</p>
<p>Most people use USNWR, but I guess you chose the World University ranking because it looks better for Cornell. Anyway, don’t get obsessed with rankings. They matter so little in the real world outside of very broad, general blocks of 50-100 or so universities and liberal arts schools. Even then, you’ll be working with so many competent people from so many different types of schools. That wasn’t the point of my post or the thread.</p>
<p>Thank you, applejack for the reasons that i did not even think about. The people i have spoken to are ignorant, to me all of the ivies are well known, considering Cornell was the last Ivy to be founded in 1865, it is an outstanding college despite being the youngest of them.</p>
<p>^^^ Yes, and in case my point did not come across clearly, rankings are at best an imperfect and at worst a silly game, but if one must play it, there is ranking that is as legitimate as any, the ARWU ranking, in which Cornell still comes off pretty well.</p>