<p>The School of Communications at Northwestern is an independent college dedicated to the field. Comm at Cornell is a department in the Agriculture school with distro requirements in the sciences and in Ag that serve mostly to justify its existence in a state sponsored program that is supposed to be advancing the needs of agricultural development in NY State. This has always been a funky relationship. Needless to say, few kids in Comm at Cornell have any intention to do agricultural communications in their future careers.</p>
<p>Northwestern’s program is a much, much stronger one. Having said that, Cornell will still provide a solid comm background. If you’re from NY with the ag school partially NYS subsidized, you can’t ignore the benefits of reduced tuition to the tune of around 64k over 4 years.</p>