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About

A global leader in our fields, the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University drives acts of transformation. Together, we advance multidisciplinary research, critical inquiry, and creative practices to engage with the world’s challenges and build thriving, resilient, and inspired futures.

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  • 1871

    Founding Year

  • 5

    Departments

  • 3

    Campuses

  • 18

    Degrees Offered

  • 583

    Undergraduate Students

  • 420

    Graduate Students

  • 77

    Faculty

  • 69

    Visiting Faculty

  • 73

    Staff

Our Campuses

  • Ithaca

    Cornell AAP is situated on the Arts Quad on Cornell's main campus in Ithaca, NY. Students, faculty, and staff find expansive space for deep inquiry, collaboration, and discovery.

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  • New York City

    Located at the AAP NYC Gensler Family Center in the Tata Innovation building on the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, our New York City-based offerings expand education with first-hand experience, immersion, collaboration, and connection across disciplines and industries.

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  • Rome

    Cornell in Rome offers students an opportunity to study architecture, art, and planning in situ as they explore the past, present, and future in the city and its surroundings.

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The culture at AAP is a combination of super aspirational ideas and directly applied knowledge. It’s not often you get to breathe the air of both at once.

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Our Departments

  • Architecture

    The Department of Architecture is widely recognized as a leader in design education, research, and practice. Architecture students and faculty from around the world come to Cornell AAP to advance the field and make transformative impacts on the built environment.

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  • Art

    The study of art at Cornell AAP means embracing longstanding traditions in creative practice across mediums alongside emerging modes of critical inquiry, making, and expression. The art department offers world-class facilities for artists to teach, learn, exhibit, and explore.

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  • Planning

    City and Regional Planning department faculty and students comprise a community that applies planning practices and scholarship to concerns such as social and environmental justice, equity, climate change, transportation, housing, and development.

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  • Real Estate

    The Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate is a multicollege department that combines expertise across Cornell AAP and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, spanning development, finance, urban design and planning, adaptation and policy, among other timely topics for the industry.

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  • Design Tech

    Spanning five colleges at Cornell and administered by AAP, the Department of Design Tech is a multicollege, transdisciplinary initiative advancing innovation and collaboration in research and teaching across leading-edge design practices and emerging technologies.

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Our Programs

Bachelors

Masters

Doctorates

Dual Degrees

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Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities

The Center for Cities at AAP is a hub for applied, interdisciplinary research that transfers knowledge to action to build more just, equitable, and sustainable urban futures.

Collaborative Research, Partnerships, and Initiatives

AAP’s partnerships across Cornell’s many departments, colleges, and centers foster faculty and student collaborations with colleagues and peers around initiatives that advance community-engaged learning, sustainability, art and culture, social impact, and innovative approaches to multi-disciplinary pedagogy.

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