<p>It just seems to be an odd place to put the business school. I'm just trying to make sure that this doesn't actually specialize in agribusiness or something before I look at transferring to Cornell. It's really confusing to me. And is there any additional information that would be useful to know before I apply? Thanks.</p>
<p>My tour guide actually talked about this when I visited the school. You know how within Cornell there are land-grant schools and privately funded schools? The guy who donated a bunch of money to make the AEM school made them promise that they’d put it in a land-grant school so NY kids could have lower tuition. Cool story, right?</p>
<p>Hmm, info before you apply… they like essays and why you’ll fit well at Cornell. Why it’s your dream school, your one and only! Good luck!</p>
<p>AEM used to be purely known as Agricultural Economics back in its earlier years. After a few decades, it expanded to teach more of a “general” business curriculum. To this day, there are still specializations within the major for agribusiness management and food industry management.</p>
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<p>Ok, awesome, thanks for clearing that up for me.</p>
<p>AEM is a department in CALS. Cornell renamed it the “Dyson School” after it received a huge donation. </p>
<p>AEM majors get all sorts of jobs in business.</p>
<p>*AEM used to be a department, until it received a huge donation and became the “Dyson school”. *</p>
<p>It’s still a department in CALS.</p>
<p>It was originally in the school of agriculture because it was designed to help farmers run their farms better, from a business standpoint, and also to teach agribusiness. Although it seems odd now that it’s a more general business program, there isn’t another logical place to put it.</p>
<p>As others have said, it morphed from AgEc into what it is now. Just as years ago, if you said you were admitted to CALS, no one would have known what you were talking about – you were an aggie!!</p>
<p>The current name recognizes the expanded focus of the school.</p>