Cornell Tech offers "startup postdocs"

The campus itself is being built on Roosevelt Island, a thin strip of land on the East River, and offers courses such as "startup postdocs" that help individuals "identify a market opportunity, implement a technological solution, demonstrate its commercial viability, and found a new venture." Although the Roosevelt Island site won't be fully built until 2043, it's slated to open in 2017, with teaching already underway at a temporary Manhattan site on loan from Google.

When fully built, the Cornell Tech site will cover 12 acres of ground and house some 2,500 students and teachers. Buildings on the site will include the first ever high-rise passive house (an international design standard that is extremely energy efficient), a "corporate co-location building" for the offices of both established tech companies and startups, and The Bloomberg Center — an academic building named after Bloomberg's daughters, Emma and Georgina. "The Bloomberg Center will, in perpetuity, carry the name of the person whose idea the whole campus was," said Cornell president Dr. David J. Skorton.