<p>“Cornell’s school of Hotel Administration? Kind of a dead end field choice to me, but I don’t know much about the school.”</p>
<p>Actually, turns out that’s not the case. At least it wasn’t in my day. Hotelies all seemed to have multiple job offers lined up at graduation and a lot of them seemed like really good jobs (Hilton hotels management training program at the Aruba Hilton, stuff like that). One of the most successful guys I knew from my undergrad graduated from the hotel school, runs some pretty well-known restaurants.
I think some of them leverage their sort-of-business training to land financial services jobs, as well. I think they also have a path to get into real estate development. They do pretty ok, it seems. A while ago I looked up one guy I knew who went there, he was on faculty at an MBA school.</p>