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Professional Student

Your professional program offers a rich, rewarding, and challenging program designed to nourish and expand your mind. Let us help you take care of your body and spirit.

Gannett offers high quality, friendly, and convenient health services right here on campus. You already know that keeping your body healthy and strong is important to reaching your academic and life goals. As a graduate student, you may be challenged by particular stresses. Our staff can help you face these challenges and get the support you need to succeed.

Stress management for professional students

Professional students often experience unique stresses related to cultural or geographic adjustment, academic pressures, relationship or family concerns, difficulties in dealing with faculty, or social isolation. Managing your stress on a daily basis is important for your overall health and wellbeing. Learn more about stress and view our stress reduction techniques.

Sometimes, it's helpful to talk with someone who is not connected to your academic life. Professional students often experience unique stresses related to cultural or geographic adjustment, academic pressures, relationship or family concerns, difficulties in dealing with faculty, or social isolation. Gannett's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) offers individual, couples, and group counseling to help students address these concerns. Some students are hesitant to seek counseling services and may prefer to speak with a counselor during walk-in hours at off-site locations. CAPS can also provide referrals to mental health professionals in the Ithaca community for students who prefer to be seen off-campus.

Information About (SHIP)

The Cornell Office of Student Health Insurance has a great deal of helpful information about the Student Health Insurance Plan.

International professional students

If you are an international student, you may benefit from checking out information specific to international students.

Professional students with families (spouse/partner or child)

Gannett offers medical services for your spouse or same-sex partner. If you are parenting a child while you are a student at Cornell, you may find these resources helpful.

Ithaca-area medical providers

Cayuga Medical Center (CMC), Ithaca's hospital, has an affiliated medical staff of about 180 physicians. Review the current list of CMC medical providers.


Resources for Grad and Professional Students

Cornell is not just about academics. The Office of Graduate Student Life is here as a support to help you actually have a balanced life while in graduate school. Balance, in turn, will make you a better student. For ways to find balance, get connected and live well, check out the Grad and Professional Student Virtual Community Center.

Graduate Community Initiative

Learn about the Graduate Community Initiative, designed to help Cornell to "direct, support, and protect undertakings that nurture a cohesive graduate and professional student community, with an emphasis on improving graduate students’ quality of life at Cornell."