It confers most of the university's professional and research master's and doctoral degrees.

The departments under which instruction and research take place are housed in Cornell's other schools and colleges.

The administrative offices for the Graduate School are located in Caldwell Hall, on the Ag Quad.

Instead, it organizes the faculty of other colleges into "fields" representing distinct subject areas.

[2] In 2010, the Graduate School had 3,367 students with faculty advisors employed in Cornell's endowed units and 1,604 students with faculty advisors employed in statutory colleges.