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COLLEGES AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS
Cornell University comprises these colleges and other grand divi
sions: The Graduate School, the College of Arts and Sciences, the
College of Law, the College of Engineering, the College of Architec
ture the Medical College, the New York State Veterinary College,
the New York State College of Agriculture, and the New York State
College of Home Economics. The New York State Agricultural
Experiment Station at Geneva is administered by the Board of
Trustees through the agency of the State College Council.
The faculties of the several colleges and that of the Graduate
School are denominated the special faculties. The President of the
University is ex officio chairman of every special faculty.
The departments of Military Science and Tactics, Physical Edu
cation and Training, and Hygiene and Preventive Medicine are de
partments of the University, being outside the organization of any
of the colleges. The professors and assistant professors in those three
departments are not members of any of the special faculties but are
members of the University Faculty.
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
Candidates for admission as students should consult the Announcement of the
Graduate School, which the Secretary of the University will send free upon request.
Cornell University confers the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
(Ph.D.) and the degrees of Master of Arts (A.M.), Master of Science
(M.S.), Master of Architecture (M.Arch.), Master of Civil Engineer
ing (M.C.E.), Master of Mechanical Engineering (M.M.E.), Master
of Electrical Engineering (M.E.E.), Master in Forestry (M.F.),
Master in Landscape Architecture (M.L.A.), Master of Chemistry(M.
Chem.), and Master of Science in Agriculture (M.$. in Agr.).
The Graduate School has exclusive jurisdiction over all graduate
work and advanced degrees. The President of the University is ex
officio Chairman of the Faculty of the Graduate School, which con
sists of all those members of the University staff who are actively
engaged in supervising the work of graduate students. The Dean of
the Graduate School is the executive officer of the Faculty.
For the convenient discussion of questions which chiefly concern
those persons who are engaged in related fields of work, the members
of the Faculty of the Graduate School are divided into seven groups, as
follows: Group A, Languages and Literatures; Group B, History,
Political Science, Philosophy, Education; Group C, Mathematics,
Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Physical Geography;
Group D, the Biological Sciences; Group E, Engineering, Architec
ture, the Applied Physical Sciences; Group F, the Science Depart
ments of the Cornell University Medical College in New York City;
Agricultural Sciences.
Group G,
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