Does anyone know why the business school at Cornell is in the agriculture school? Opinions on the business school?
Johnson School Of Business is not considered apart of CALS (correct me if i'm wrong?). I'm pretty sure there are business majors for undergrads in CALS but Johnson is a completely separate grad school. It is one of the best business schools in the country and has a huge alumni network.
I assume OP is talking about Dyson AEM rather than Johnson. According to their website, Dyson is located in CALS in order to allow them to double major in various life sciences and “keep Dyson School students one step ahead of the competition by preparing them to lead in a future where the sciences, social sciences, and the arts will increasingly converge.”
Yes I was talking about the undergraduate school. I just wondered if there was some history behind having it in the ag/life science school as opposed to a separate business college.
Just looked it up – apparently AEM started out as agricultural economics and had to do with farm business. It then became Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics (ARME) in 1993, and in 2000 changed to AEM.
There are many majors in CALS you wouldn’t necessarily expect to find in a school with “Agriculture” in its name. Communication is one such example. My daughter is in CALS as a development sociology major and has no interest in Agriculture but loves the school and the program. At first she didn’t even want to apply to Cornell because she didn’t want to be in school of agriculture, but once she looked into it and visited, she discovered CALS is much more than agriculture programs. Cornell is truly a unique University with its schools/colleges where “any person can find instruction in any study.” (Ezra Cornell).