cornell bear Every fall when the market for new hires heats up, the world's top employers go looking for Bear—the Big Red Bear graduates of Cornell University's premier Undergraduate Business Program.

Why?

They’re Ivy League Smart.

They’re Cornell Visionary. Cornell broadens perspectives like nowhere else. From its founding, Cornell has embraced a revolutionary, egalitarian "any person ... any study" approach to education, reflected in its 14 schools and colleges, almost 100 academic departments, and more than 4,000 courses.

The Undergraduate Business Program's flexible degree requirements give students ample opportunities to explore areas beyond their business classes. Because of the program's unique location in one of the world's leading land-grant colleges, students can easily combine business with a focus or double major in the life sciences, environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, or applied social sciences. It's not unusual, for example, for an undergraduate business student to also be majoring or minoring in biological sciences, communication, natural resources, biometry and statistics, animal science, or development sociology. And that's just 6 of the 24 major fields of study in which a Cornell undergraduate business student can double major or minor.

This rich, unbounded exposure gives Cornell business students the ability to see a world beyond the present, preparing them to lead in a future of constant convergences between the sciences, social sciences, and the arts.

They're AEM Applied. The Department of Applied Economics and Management (AEM), home of Cornell's AACSB International-accredited Undergraduate Business Program, has a 100-year legacy of students and professors applying practical economics and management tools on every continent to solve the world's most significant business and social issues.

They Believe in the Power of Collaboration. Because AEM is the smallest, most selective 4-year undergraduate business program in the U.S., AEM students know each other. They develop lasting mutual respect for each other's talents and views. They work closely together and with professors, alumni, and business partners in AEM's non-cutthroat, can-do culture to achieve results. AEM graduates lead from the front. They build community.

They're "Big Red" Energized. Almost no university demands as much of its students and rewards them as strongly with personal achievement, lifetime friendships, powerful worldwide connections, and a sense of belonging to something of great meaning.

AEM's Undergraduate Business Program opens eyes and doors for lifetimes of accelerated success and meaningful accomplishment. AEM Is Business Beyond Expectations!

Quick Facts

Cornell University Undergraduate Business Program
Accredited by AACSB International	One of only 2 accredited undergraduate business programs in the Ivy League
Degree Granted	Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Name of the Major	Applied Economics and Management
Specializations within the AEM Major (10)	Accounting Agribusiness Management Applied Economics Entrepreneurship Environmental & Resource Economics Finance Food Industry Management International Trade & Development Marketing Strategy
No. of 2008 Graduates	241
Campus Location	Department of Applied Economics and Management, Warren Hall
2008-09 Tuition & Fees	$20,160 (New York State residents) $35,200 (Non-residents)
Student Profile
Total AEM Majors	691
Incoming Freshmen, Fall 2008
No. of Freshmen	97
Admittance Rate	11.9%
Incoming Transfers, Fall 2008
External Transfers	51
Intra-Cornell Transfers	49
Exchange Students, Fall 2008	31
Faculty Profile
Teaching Faculty	44
% Full-Time	98%
% Top Terminal Degree	96%

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