<p>Yes, perhaps you were being just a little, shall we say, cavalier. ;)</p>
<p>I guess we’re quibbling over phrasing, and I’m a terrible writer so I have no room to speak. Regardless, there’s a difference between being “best” in a field like hotel management and being “up there” in a field like physics or math.</p>
<p>Sure is a difference. You’ll make a whole lot more money, and meet an awful lot of interesting people in hotel management.</p>
<p>My degree and work experience are in the hospitality industry. Mini is right- what a cast of characters.</p>
<p>Depends on what you intend to use the math or physics graduate degree for. A math PhD working on wall street will most likely out earn someone with a hotel management background, and the math PhD is clearly more prestigious.</p>
<p>Honestly, though, Hotel Management seems like it would be an interesting field to go into. Who could pass up working at a luxury hotel in a big city or at a big resort in the caribbean?</p>
<p>Thanks all appreciate the input and insight</p>
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<p>Well, the residential college experience is a good thing if you want to experience the Harry Potter-like cameraderie of house-living.</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_colleges[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_colleges</a></p>
<p>well as expected…Cornell offered NO AID…zip zero zilch</p>
<p>Ok…I will retire at 85 not 75.Son is going to CORNELL</p>
<p>If Cornell’s program is that great and the job market in the field is that lucrative, ask S to take out some loans or some additional loans. You don’t have to bear the full burden of his college costs.</p>
<p>Be forewarned that class sizes in Cornell’s Hotel Admin department are quite large compared to other endowed college departments. According to recent enrollment statistics, the median class size for undergraduate courses was about 60 students and 17% of these courses had enrollments exceeding 100 students. No class sections had less than 15 students and 23% of these lower level courses had enrollment between 15-30 students. In additon 67.5% of credit hours are taken within the department.</p>
<p>Do not misunderstand me, I expect that Cornell’s Hotel Admin department is one of the best if not the best in the country. However, the classroom experience will be more similar to a public university than a typical private university, which of course it is.</p>
<p>BTW, I am a Cornell alum, enjoyed my (too many) years there as a grad student oh so long ago.</p>
<p>Many have commented here about the “Ivy experience”. Having attended both Cornell and Ohio State as an undergrad I have first hand knowledge about student life at both. Yes there is a difference but both were wonderful in different ways. Many of my Buckeye classmates were every bit as intelligent and hard working as the typical Cornell undergrad. Even though an engineering major, I was able to choose an academic schedule which was the envy of two hs friends who happened to be engineering majors at Cornell, one reason being that OSU’s engineering degree was a 5 year program on the quarter system which permitted me to take many more non-tech electives than they could. BTW, I grew up about 40 miles from Ithaca which was the primary reason I had 2 friends at Cornell.</p>
<p>I may have missed this in the discussion, but what’s the other school?</p>