I’m a bit confused. Is the School of Hotel Administration and Dyson now combined together under the College of Business? If someone can clarify for me that would be great!
Yes, College Of Business will be a combination of Dyson, HA, and their Graduate school
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That sounds awesome!
Wow, that sounds really neat!
My interviewer had like a 10 minute vent session to me about the College of Business lol. Apparently a lot of students and alumni aren’t happy with it.
so say you attend SHA, as of next year will that technically mean you are in the College of Business?
The SHA and Dyson will remain separate and distinct, but within the COB.
@HRSMom gotcha…but again so if you are in Dyson or SHA…you are technically enrolled in the Cornell College of Business correct?
The alumni are very upset about this. I am not even clear on how it will work. There’s going to be a webinar for alumni shortly. I am going to sign up.
One prediction I have is this: There will be a lot less competition to get into ILR because all the students who have been using it as an alternative route to business will now apply to the business school instead.
The alumni are very upset about this. I am not even clear on how it will work. There’s going to be a webinar for alumni shortly. I am going to sign up.
One prediction I have is this: There will be a lot less competition to get into ILR because all the students who have been using it as an alternative route to business will now apply to the business school instead.
http://business.cornell.edu/communications/Kotlikoff-BoT-presentation.pdf
what does everyone think of this?
Why not include ILR in the College of Business?
ILR probably wasn’t included because it is a contract college, which may be hard to merge with an endowed college (SHA). Dyson is only a program within CALS, and now will be shared between CALS and the new College of Business.
It sounds like Dyson is getting a bump up, from a program to a college. SHA, which I always thought was kinda odd as a stand alone college, lends it’s prestige as well to the new college (since it is tops in the nation for hospitality). So, maybe this all makes sense. Same number of colleges overall, but now they can tune the “college of business” to compete with Wharton.
Dyson is a contract program/school too. What do they mean when they say it will be “shared”? Will some Dyson students be paying the private tuition?
Dyson right now is a major in a contract college (CALS). What the power point said is that Dyson will be available via both CALS and the College of Business, so yes, that would mean that some Dyson students will be paying private tuition via the CofB verses contract college tuition via CALS. Of course, it only matters if they are NY state residents, otherwise CALS costs the same as all the endowed colleges.
Cornell has lots of shared majors, like Biology (CAS and CALS) and Computer Science (CAS and Engineering). They have different distribution requirements, but the majors are basically the same.
ILR does not perceive itself nor does it promote itself as the right place for students interested in a business education. In fact, they proactively try to weed out “business” applicants.
Until the announcement of the new Business College, there was a web page entitled Business at Cornell. It showcased Dyson, SHA, IRL and JGSM (or whatever the Johnson MBA is called these days). I have absolutely no insight into the decision-making process but I wonder if including ILR had been considered at one time. That website was up for at least two years, and only came down since the Dec announcement.
ILR and A&S Econ merged a few years back. SHA library books moved over to Catherwood (ILR library). JGSM, SHA & ILR are physically much closer to each other, but all of this may mean nothing. Idle speculation, since it ended up being Dyson & SHA in the end.
And while ILR does not promote itself as the place for students to study business, its curriculum lends itself very well to cobbling together one’s own business major with the addition of courses in Ag, ORIE, SHA, A&S and if one plans far enough ahead to line up the pre-reqs, City & Regional Planning in AA&P.
It will be interesting to watch how they manage to integrate the programs by the start of the fall term.
When a university opens a new college, are admissions usually more or less competitive for the first few years? Will it likely be as competitive as Cornell in general?