<p>What exactly does the ILR school teach you? What kind of business related fields could you go into after graduation?</p>
<p>bump, i would like to know too.</p>
<p>bump ditto</p>
<p>I don't necessarily need info about what fields it could lead to, but just more general information/experiences from ILR.</p>
<p>There are 2 basic things that ILR teaches you - </p>
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<li><p>The obvious things - econ, history, philosophy, socilogy, psych (all related to business), and the department areas such as law, organizational behavior, HR management, statistics, and so forth. All of these have a unique twist to business and "labor" and accordingly many students will call it "usefull psychology" or "relevant economics" and so forth.</p></li>
<li><p>Equally important are the things you learn not as a result of the material being covered by rather by the way you are asked to think and communicate. By the time they graduate, ILRies are very articulate, able to read and extract information from very difficult sources such as law cases or academic reports, and can formulate very strong arguments into logical thinking (hence why law school is so popular, ILRies typically do extremely well on the LSAT - not a single person I know in ILR has scored below 160ish). </p></li>
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<p>Graduates go into a variety of fields when they graduate. To be exact, around 30% go to law school and 20% into other advanced degree programs, though I will focus on the other 50%. ILR has its very own career fair, and Goldman Sachs has even held info sesions ONLY for ILR students. Some go into the "typical" business fields such as investment banking or managerial consulting, while others go into highly specialized fields such as HR consulting or Org. Development consulting. Others choose to go into union work or non-profit - either way ILR students are among the most recruited at Cornell (the students are very fortunate when it comes to job placement). </p>
<p>It's really difficult to describe "what we study." Students typically take their own path at the ILR school. Even though it's a small school by Cornell's standards, imagine the variety of classes offered to all 800 students. Some of my friends are pursuiting international relations, others economic work, some in social statistics, some finance, others law, and so forth. I'm looking into organizational development (breaking down a company and then re-building it to make it more successful and run smoother). If you guys have a particular field you're looking at, ask me and I can discuss opportunities available through the ILR school. In the end, much of it can be described as using theoritical principles derived form economics, sociology, psychology, history, law and applying them to the business sector, both in the managerial area and in the labor area (everybody else). </p>
<p>You guys asked some really vague questions that's tough to answer since ILR is rather large and very diverse, so ask some specific ones and i'll do my best to answer.</p>
<p>Thanks, gomestar. Well put.</p>
<p>is ilr cheaper for new york state residents?</p>
<p>yeah, about $10,000 less ... but, Cornell does take this into account for financial aid decisions</p>
<p>And speaking of job hiring...ILR students earn the 2nd highest salaries of all Cornell undergrad schools upon graduation (averages)</p>
<p>I swear you know more about ILR than ILR faculty do Gome lol I always get a lot from reading your posts</p>
<p>That's probably true, but mostly because the faculty are really in tune with their own departments and not so much the others.</p>
<p>i have the postgraduate survey from '05 grads, and finance seemed very popular, and was the highest paying out of all the other concentrations</p>
<p>Finance? is that in ILR or art and science?</p>
<p>ILR students all major in Industrial and Labor Relations, but many of them get jobs in finance because of the way in which they concentrate their studies and take advantage of Cornell</p>
<p>ILR most likely..thanks for the info i'll be applying as a transfer student.
gomestar, i read that an interview for ILR is required for transfer students..do you know anything on the interview process? i was never interviewed by a school before. does the ILR interview do things a little more different? thanks..</p>
<p>oh, thanks frankieY
so I'm assuming it's easy to take courses from the other schools at cornell.</p>
<p>every college in the university has a certain number of credits one needs to obtain from their school, and the rest are open to (for the most part) anything at any school in the university</p>
<p>The interview is probably to make sure that u fit the school and that the school fits u. Probably a two way thing (I'd actually probably lean it towards u finding out more about the school b4 u do in fact transfer)</p>
<p>Yeah I had an interview last November (didn't apply though b/c I chickened out lol; I'm def. applying this Fall though) But yeah, the interview was pretty casual. They want to see why you think you'll fit the ILR program, what you're future plans are, how you found out, along those lines. Me and my interviewer actually started talking about how our former HS's were lacrosse rivals lol so it's not a make or break type of interview. Don't blow it off though, b/c from what I understand it can def. help your application</p>
<p>Wow Gomestar, thanks for all the info! </p>
<p>My goal job is to work in a high position at a corporation, and then use the massive corporate clout to develop impoverished communities overseas. Corporation have been given a bad name for creating sweatshops etc., but I see great potential for corporations to do good deeds for humanity. </p>
<p>With that being said, I recognize that foreign communities do not take well to the "American" way of capitalism, so I wish to use sociology in order to ease in the development of impoverished foreign communities. I'd be using sociological research in order to avoid an attack on cultural traditions as much as possible. </p>
<p>Simply put, i'm trying to avoid imposing American consumerism while raising their living standards at the same time. </p>
<p>Is Cornell's ILR program fit for my goals?</p>
<p>Interviews? Cornell does interviews?</p>
<p>John: wow, you're so insightful. I have no idea about my career goals yet.</p>