<p>How good is this major at Cornell?</p>
<p>you actually cannot major in aerospace engineering as an undergrad at Corenll. The major is called Mechanical and Aerospace engineering, which is mostly mechanical engineering but you can concentrate in aerospace classes during your junior and senior year. The grad program for aerospace engineering is pretty decent.</p>
<p>spacewacko13 is right, aerospace engineering is only one of the concentrations of the mechanical engineering major.</p>
<p>This really depends on what you want to do in the major and what you want to do with the degree. I wouldn't worry to much about the title of the degree because industry treats them the same. There are mechanical engineers that know more about aerospace than aerospace engineers and vice versa. Cornell has it's strengths and weakness in this department and they are strongly felt. This particular department is really made for gearing its students to be prepared for graduate school, but the design elements suffers alot as a result. In the end you're trained much too heavily as a scientist and not as an engineer. Regardless, it's a worthwhile place to get a degree from but it's overrated. If you really want to do aerospace there are better places to do it.</p>