<p>AEM and hotel are both heavily recruited by Ibanks, pe, consulting, etc. AEM is more of a business only program than the hotel program, which will make you take courses that are specific to the hospitality industry. BOTH are recruited and great for business though. </p>
<p>however, the aem program does not have real estate as a concentration, and I personally think the hotel school does a better job at teaching subjects with more group work and labor intensive finance projects. AEM classes are big (hotel are often capped at 50-70), and aem tests mostly mult choice for the larger classes ( i have taken 10 person upper level courses in aem though, dont get me wrong). </p>
<p>I think the hotel professors are more qualified, with many being former high level business leaders. The hotel program also has more comraderie, and a great post-graduate network for jobs (AEM has less loyalty, perhaps because it is newer). I am an AEM major too so Idk if that gives me more credibility on differences between the two programs. both are great, but i dont think hotel gets enough credit as a pure business program from some students at cornell (it gets a lot of credit from companies though).</p>