<p>The Hotel school at Cornell is DEFINITELY more prestigious than USC’s business program. It is the best Hospitality school in the world. Cornell is a world renowned name, an ivy, and the hotel school is also a finance and management school, not just hospitality. And I’m pretty sure a Cornell degree is great with or without the asterisk. I dont even understand what you mean about the asterisk and why it is negative or less prestigious than a CAS degree.</p>