<p>Any ideas for alternative schools to Cornell's School of Industrial Labor Relations? The program is so specific, I haven't heard of any other school with a similar one. I LOVE it. But do you know of any schools with similar programs or majors I could apply to if I don't get accepted to Cornell? What other schools and majors are other ILR kids looking at?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>There's no undergraduate school/program similar to ILR anywhere in the country. What other schools you apply to depends on what you're interested in. I mostly applied to other business schools like NYU Stern, but I also applied to places like the Carroll School of Management at Boston College so that I could have options in different aspects of business.</p>
<p>And don't be afraid to apply to liberal arts schools as well. You can get a great education at a lot of them. There are times when I kind of wish I was in a smaller school but ILR does give you that small school feel as well. You're gonna know most of your classmates, or at least recognize them by their faces just from walking through Ives Hall.</p>
<p>yeah the most similar are business schools with flexible curriculums - most of time, ILR-type classes (such as HR or OB) are offered through business schools anyways.</p>
<p>Penn State has a "Labor Studies and Employment Relations" major.</p>
<p>what other schools/majors did ILR students consider?</p>
<p>"Similar schools" definitely depends on what your main ILR interest is. If I didn't end up at Cornell, I would have studied Econ or Public Policy, and I wanted to stay close to home (so naturally I ended up in rural New York seven hours away?). If you believe a small liberal arts school would be right for you, try looking into Swarthmore and William and Mary; they both had undergrad public policy majors.</p>
<p>great suggestions intl_echo, I was leaning more towards universities though. Did you apply to any bigger schools?</p>
<p>I was definitely limited by location (I wanted to stay in the Mid-Atlantic and definitely on the east coast), so I applied to some DC-area schools. Of those, Georgetown might be a good school for you to consider. If I'm recalling correctly, they don't offer a Public Policy major for undergrads, but Econ there is excellent, and they have a pretty attractive American Studies program. I'm not exactly an expert, but based on my experiences so far, a good American Studies curriculum can mirror what you get in our Labor History department; I'm sure you could pair it with Econ for a well-rounded social studies curriculum like the one we have here. I also considered the University of Maryland.</p>
<p>Rutgers has a good program for HR I heard...and if u r from jersey...its cheap</p>
<p>what about wharton?
along with ILR ED im applying to Northeastern, Penn State, BC, Brandeis, Tufts, Maryland, and Binghamton</p>