Cornell University is located in Ithaca, a small town of Finger Lake in the northwest of new york (about four hours' drive northwest of new york). The local lakes and mountains are vast. Cornell's campus is located at the top of the southernmost tip of Lake Kayuga, the longest finger lake, overlooking the Great Lakes. It is magnificent and looks like a paradise. The bell tower above the school library is played by students every day. Every day when the sun goes down, the school song and other music will ring, echoing on the hillside of the campus and the lake in Yuga, which is very audio-visual and shocking.

Cornell University covers an area of 2,300 acres. Compared with the typical crowded universities in the northeast of the United States, it presents an open and grand posture. About 700 buildings present various architectural styles, including Gothic, Victorian, neoclassical and a few modern-style buildings, which are distributed in the central campus and the north campus of Dongshan Highland, the west campus on the hillside and the university town adjacent to the central campus in the south. Close to the main campus, the school also owns a Cornell plantation of 1 1.7 square kilometers.

Cornell University's museum is world-famous and an outstanding masterpiece of China architect I.M. Pei. The $35 million National Computer Center allows students to enjoy themselves in the academic hall. In addition, many national research centers have also settled in Cornell Campus, including High Energy Synchrotron Research Center, Science and Engineering Theory and Simulation Center, Freud Newman Nuclear Research Laboratory, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National Astronomy and Ionospheric Research Center, National Fine Structure Research Center, USDA Plant and Soil Research Institute and Bowes Thompson Plant Research Institute.