I’ll currently be applying to Cornell for ED this cycle, specifically to the ILR school, but there is still more information that I’d like to know that I can’t get from fact sheets. If any current or past Cornell students could enlighten me about what are the most popular courses of study/subjects taken by ILR students and why, along with what help they received from ILR in terms of career and MBA placement, that would really help me out during the application process. Thanks!
I’m in CAS, not ILR, so I can’t give first-hand information, but essentially ILR is divided into six departments: human resources; international and comparative labor; economics; labor relations, law, and history; organizational behavior, and social statistics. Everyone in the ILR school is majoring in ILR, but I assume you can take courses across all those departments, although people probably end up specializing in whatever interests them the most. Hopefully someone in ILR can jump in to add to that. You can look at course/graduation requirements here: http://courses.cornell.edu/content.php?catoid=31&navoid=7887
As for career/graduate placement, take a look at the 2016 ILR post-graduate report: https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/sites/ilr.cornell.edu/files/ILR_CS_BachelorsDataBrochure_FINAL.pdf