<p>Businessweek online has a ranking of the best undergraduate business schools and Cornell is 14th.
<a href="http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/06rankings/%5B/url%5D">http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/06rankings/</a></p>
<p>However, when I went to their site, there were no undergraduate business schools.<br>
I don't get it. Do they have a separate business school or is it all together with the regular college?</p>
<p>The undergraduate business program is part of the Department of Applied Economics and Management, which is part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. </p>
<p>Yes, this is weird, but it's an excellent program anyway.</p>
<p>Go here for information on the undergraduate business program: <a href="http://business.aem.cornell.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://business.aem.cornell.edu/</a></p>
<p>You might also want to check out the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). gomestar gave a good description in this thread.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=256975%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=256975</a></p>
<p>Yes, there is a graduate business school: the Johnson School of Management. <a href="http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/</a>
Have you really been looking around?!</p>
<p>ummm, he said undergrad....</p>
<p>and the AEM program is headed to top 5 by the time this entering class graduates</p>
<p>business week rankings are very flawed....but i must say cornell is pretty awesome. getcrunk, you should take a look at usnews rankings. they tend to be more accurate.</p>
<p>the hotel school is pretty much the business school</p>
<p>"the hotel school is pretty much the business school"</p>
<p>My impression is that this is not really true at all. "Business type" majors are housed with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.</p>
<p>...of prebusiness opportunities at Cornell.</p>
<p>Wharf Rat, thanks for that link; it's helpful. It's too bad Cornell doesn't have a single admissions gate for all programs, or at least a way to indicate a second choice.</p>
<p>why does AEM take only 90 kids again?</p>
<p>WS17,</p>
<p>Yeah, nothing is perfect. Keep in mind that anyone can take courses in other colleges. So its possible to build quite an awesome program. For instance, you could be an Econ major in CAS and take courses in AEM, ILR, Hotel, and even the Johnson School.</p>
<p>AEM is great, but its not the only way to get a good pre-business education at Cornell.</p>
<p>I was a History major and I'm doing just fine out here in the real world...I did take a number of business type courses in CALS,</p>
<p>Wharf</p>
<p>Wharf Rat, most private schools have an open admissions policy, short of an audition for the arts or a porfolio review for architecture. Cornell operates their admission like a state school, except with an even more rigid lack of an alternative program designation. I have heard Cornell might change this next year.</p>
<p>Anyway, it presents a dilemma for applicants, who just want to get admitted and not feel like they got rejected because they happened to select the "wrong" program.</p>
<p>WS17,</p>
<p>I wouldn't get too hung up on your comparison. If you like the profile of a private college like Dartmouth for example, then apply to CAS. They are totally comparable.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a more specialized program like Hotel or ILR then by all means go ahead. If you're unsure (which is totally normal) then go CAS. It is not uncommon to switch once inside Cornell.</p>
<p>As someone recently said, apply to the school at Cornell that best suits your tastes and interests. That will give you the best chance of getting in.</p>
<p>By the way, if I am not mistaken, other Ivies have schools that you have to apply directly to. Columbia's SEAS and Penn's Wharton as well as others.</p>
<p>Cornell is a very diverse place which can be confusing looking in from the outside, but I assure you that it is also one of its great strengths as an institution.</p>
<p>They have considered the 2nd choice route, but I believe that it it is on the back burner right now.</p>
<p>Wharf</p>