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Admissions

ILR Multicultural Affairs
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Cornell has a long history of cultural diversity. We honor this legacy as we welcome all individuals to campus. ILR values diversity and is responsive to the unique social, academic, and cultural needs of minority students. One quarter of ILR students identify as Black/African American, Latino/a, Asian/Asian American, Native American or have a multi-racial background. ILR Multicultural Affairs Assistants — students who assist the Associate Director for Multicultural Affairs in the recruitment and retention of minority students and provide academic and personal support to their peers - can help facilitate your transition to Cornell. Minority students also participate in a variety of student organizations, and are especially active in the Minority Industrial and Labor Relations Student Organization (MILRSO).

Undergraduate Admissions Office

General information for all prospective students wishing to apply to Cornell University for undergraduate study.

Visa Information for International Students
Unit: Johnson Graduate School of Management

Information for potential Johnson School students about types of visas and how to obtain them, and other concerns of international applicants.

Campus Life Resources

Applying Your Experience

Perhaps you’ve already secured your international academic program, you’ve studied abroad, or you are an international student currently on the Cornell campus. If you are eager to apply your valuable international experience to a worthwhile project while you finish your degree, here is a sampling of what you can do.

Cornell Cinema

Here’s a great way to experience countries and cultures around the globe without leaving Ithaca. Pick up a Passport at the Cornell Cinema box office at either Willard Straight Theater or Uris Auditorium during show times, or from the Cornell Cinema Office at 104 Willard Straight Hall any weekday between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Throughout the year Cornell Cinema features a wide array of foreign films and with the passport, every fifth foreign film is free!

Holland International Living Center

HILC is a residential community with a focus on global political, economic, social, and cultural issues, as well as the celebration and appreciation of international cultures. It is home to 144 residents from countries around the world and a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, and grad students.

ILR Global Affairs Club (IGAC)
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Founded in 2008, the ILR Global Affairs Club’s mission is to promote greater awareness about the issues affecting today’s global workplace by pursuing all student members' interests in worker and business relations. This club will work towards its mission by hosting forums, special events and by aiding its members in their pursuit for international travel experiences. Lastly, IGAC will aim to transfer valuable leadership opportunities to its members and provide opportunities for students to explore their specific interest areas of the international workplace.

International Students
Unit: Johnson Graduate School of Management

The Johnson School has a strong international focus and believes that diversity in their student body contributes to greater learning opportunities for all.

Language House
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences

The Language House is a unique residence for students who want to hone their language skills in a friendly setting and make connections to others with similar interests.

Networking

For students, it's never too early to start planning your networking strategy. For current faculty, staff, and alumni it's never too late.

Search All Cornell Student Organizations

Several hundred student organizations are active on the Cornell campus, many with a significant country or culture focus. The best way to find ones that relate to your particular interests is to browse the entire list of student associations. But, if you prefer, you can do a specialized search.

Student Organizations
Unit: College of Veterinary Medicine

Students at the College of Veterinary Medicine are involved in a wide range of both veterinary and non-veterinary extracurricular activities. Participation in organizations and clubs is an integral part of the student experience at the College and provides an excellent opportunity for networking, making friends, developing leadership skills, and learning about specific topics in veterinary medicine.

Career Planning

Cornell Camel Breeders

The Cornell Camel Breeders are a group of students, faculty and staff at Cornell University who are interested in International Development. Many of them are Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, Students from Developing Nations, International Agricultural and Rural Development Students and other people who have lived or worked in the developing world.

Cornell Career Services (CCS) Fellowships

The Cornell Career Services website is intended to students learn what fellowships are, who should consider applying for them, when to apply, and the fellowships services CCS offers to students.

Cornell Career Services International Job Search

Cornell Career Services helps students with career exploration, graduate and professional school advising and preparation, health careers, legal careers, internship and full-time job searches, fellowships, and specialized advising needs. They also have an extensive library of career-related materials, including general information and resources, to help students explore their options for the future.

Cornell University Summer Session
Unit: School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions

The Cornell University Summer Session and the Winter Session, which welcomes international students to the Ithaca campus and provides opportunities for local students to study and/or intern overseas. Among our recent off-campus course and program offerings are Tropical Field Ecology and Behavior in Kenya; Quechua Language Training in Bolivia; Creative Writing Workshop in Rome; and International Business Program and Internship in Hong Kong. Such programs enable students to enrich their understanding of a content area by living, studying, and, perhaps, interning in an environment well suited for their course of study.

Distance Learning
Unit: School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions

Distance Learning, which transforms any place within reach of the Internet into a Cornell classroom. In our distance learning classes, students can earn credits and learn something new without ever setting foot on campus. These courses feature Web-based components and/or related materials. Students interact with their professor and other students by telephone or e-mail.

Master in European Business (MEB) for ILR Seniors
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Region: Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

ILR seniors now have an opportunity to earn a one-year Master in European Business from one of the world's top business schools. The program includes two semesters of study, each at a different campus of the European School of Management (Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin, Torino) or partner institutions in India (MDI Gurgaon), Thailand (AIT) Bangkok and Mexico (ITESM Monterrey). Coursework is followed by a 12-week internship in the country of the student’s choice. This program builds on an existing and successful partnership between the ILR School and the ESCP-EAP European School of Management. Graduate students at both institutions have had an opportunity to participate in a dual degree program at the graduate level. The MEB program now offers ILR seniors the chance to enroll after completing your ILR degree. In addition to acquiring a graduate degree in European business, students will gain invaluable experiences through living abroad, learning new languages, and interning alongside colleagues from around the world. The ESCP-EAP European School of Management was recently ranked 2nd in the 50 best Masters in Management programs worldwide and 6th in the best Business Schools in Europe by the Financial Times. To apply and receive more information please visit ESCP-EAP web site. For more details, please contact: Maë d’Alexis: mdalexis@escp-eap.net, tel: (33) 1 49 23 58 90

Peace Corps Coordinator

For many years, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences International Programs department has had a contract with U.S. Peace Corps to support a graduate student representative on campus. Cornell University has recruited over 1,000 well-trained applicants for programs specifically related to agriculture, plant and animal science, natural resources, health and nutrition, education and community development.

Public Service Center

The Cornell Public Service Center offers links to several international service opportunities.

Courses

CyberTower
Unit: School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions

CyberTower (CT), which provides a Web-based portal to Cornell’s fine teaching and learning resources at no cost to its participants. Available to audiences around the world, CT is an online program that gives alumni, prospective students, and others access to Cornell's best professors at any time and from virtually anywhere. CT currently features study rooms on topics from archaeology, history, and literature to nutrition, engineering, and paleontology. Each study room offers videostreamed lectures, links to specially selected Web sites, informative reading lists, and a place to chat with faculty members and fellow learners. CT also features monthly faculty forums on a wide variety of timely topics.

English for International Students and Scholars
Unit: School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions

English for International Students and Scholars, which helps non-native speakers of English gain basic English-language skills with emphasis on proficiency in the spoken language. The course includes conversational activities, interactive presentations, and discussions to give practice in speaking, pronunciation, and listening skills. Reading and grammar activities are used to reinforce vocabulary and conversational skills. Field trips are scheduled to provide opportunities for discussion with native English speakers and insight into American culture and history.

ILR International and Comparative Labor Courses
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Information on international courses within the ILR school are listed under the "International and Comparative Labor" Department.

ILR/UCD Semester in Dublin Program
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Region: Europe

The ILR/UCD Semester in Dublin Program is the first initiative in what is intended to be a comprehensive educational and professional collaboration between the ILR School at Cornell University and the Industrial Relations and Human Resources Group of the School of Business at University College Dublin. The program’s purpose is to afford eligible ILR juniors and seniors opportunities to enhance their understanding of various international dimensions of the field of industrial and labor relations through courses taught by leading scholars at one of Europe’s most vibrant and dynamic universities. The curriculum, which places a special emphasis on illuminating the most important issues of work and workplace relations affecting the 27 member nations of the world’s largest trading bloc, the European Union, is a joint design of ILR and UCD faculty members.

International and Comparative Labor Department
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations

The Department of International and Comparative Labor is concerned with industrial and labor relations systems and labor markets in other parts of the world. Our world-renowned faculty members are authorities on the labor-markets of Western Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa and bring this knowledge to bear on the courses they teach as they prepare their students to understand the global marketplace.

Summer off-campus courses in Qatar
Unit: School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions
Region: Middle East

In partnership with the Weill Cornell Medical College—Qatar, the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions provides academic and administrative services to the pre-medical component of the program. In addition to assistance with curriculum planning and other matters, the School helps to recruit and appoint qualified faculty members to teach Cornell undergraduate courses in Doha. The School also registers undergraduate students for courses in Doha and for their summer studies in Ithaca.

Faculty

ILR International Studies Expert
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Cornell ILR faculty possess in-depth knowledge and expertise about the world of work. Listed are the broad categories that constitute the interdisciplinary study of workplace issues including many internationally related fields. Read through the list to learn more about what we do, then click on the links to identify an expert who can answer your questions or provide the assistance that will help you and/or your organization.

Funding Resources

Cornell Graduate School Graduate Fellowship Notebook

This is a searchable database for a variety of fellowships and scholarships.

Cornell Graduate School Travel Grants and Research Awards

Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD)

Student Support and Advising-
Over the past 15 years, more than 200 graduate students have received support for their studies or field research in connection with CIIFAD programs. Research focuses are determined jointly with overseas partners so that there is a demand for what is learned. Small amounts of financial support for graduate students to travel and undertake overseas projects are available.

Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program of the U.S. Department of State is administered on the Cornell campus by the Mario Einaudi Center. These grants for study or research abroad are awarded on a nationally competitive basis to U.S. citizens who are graduate students or will have earned the bachelors degree prior to September of the year for which the grant is being awarded.

Fulbright-Hays Awards

The Mario Einaudi Center supports Cornell's graduate students in applying for the annual nationwide Fulbright-Hays awards of the U.S. Department of Education. These awards are prestigious grants that provide generous support (including dependents' allowances, if needed) for six to 12 months of dissertation research in a foreign country.

ILR Funding Sources for Current Students
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Funding resources for current ILR students can be found here.

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Research Travel Grants

The Mario Einaudi Center offers this unique research travel grant program to encourage graduate student research and field work in countries outside the United States. Each year this competitive program supports 100 to 150 graduate students from all fields of study.

International Agreements

Languages

Library Resources

Catherwood Library: International Research Portal
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations

The International Information links from this Portal are designed to lead the researcher and practitioner to the most reliable and fundamental information sources available in matters related to Industrial and Labor Relations. To assist in this process some sources have been grouped into categories such as Best Regional Sites, including Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and Key State Department Sites.

Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia
Region: Asia

STARTED OFFICIALLY IN 1918 with a donation of around 9,500 books, 1600 pamphlets and 550 manuscripts, the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia (http://asia.library.cornell.edu/ac/) is among the top East Asian library collections in the country. Originally named the Charles W. Wason Library on China and the Chinese, the backbone of the collection began as the private library of the late Charles W. Wason (Cornell class of 1876), a railroad magnate based in Cleveland. Over the years, the Wason Collection, now consisting of over 550,000 items in many formats, has expanded its focus to include materials from Japan, Tibet, Manchuria and Korea, offering superb and often unique resources for research and teaching.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

The Cornell University library system subscribes to CIAO, a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Because this is a subscription service, it is restricted to users who access the database from computers connected to the Cornell network.

Cornell Library

This Gateway is the central electronic access point to the more than 7,000,000 volumes, 7,000,000 microforms, 65,000 cubic feet of manuscripts, and 400,000 other materials held by Cornell University Library that place it among the ten largest academic research libraries in North America. Cornell acquires all books published by university presses in the English-speaking world, the output of some 140 American trade publishers, complete sets of thousands of scholarly series from around the world, and more than 60,000 periodical and newspaper titles.

Echols Collection on Southeast Asia
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Region: Asia

As a premier resource on Southeast Asia, the Echols collection annually adds more than 7000 volumes to its collection. It is the most comprehensive body of material on a global region in the Cornell Library system and the largest collection on Southeast Asia in the United States and in the world.

Library Reference Services

The Reference Department and Instruction Division is a team made up of librarians, reference assistants, and support staff working together to provide effective services to the Cornell community. They assist users in finding information, recommending sources for research, suggesting research strategies, and helping users navigate a wide array of electronic and print resources.

Map Collection

The Map and Geospatial Information Collection houses a geographically comprehensive collection of over 240,000 maps, 3,200 books and atlases, 500 compact disks, and many other related research materials.

Middle East and Islamic Studies Collection
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Region: Middle East

The Collection includes materials published both in the Middle East and in Western Europe and the United States about the Middle East and Islam, including over 40,000 books, serials, government documents, and audiovisual materials, housed mainly in Olin Library.

Slavic and East European Collections
Region: Europe

The Slavic and East European Collections contain over 300,000 volumes, both in vernacular languages of the area and in Western European languages. East European language holdings are about 56% Russian, 13% Polish, 8% Czech and Slovak, 10% Serbian, Croatian, and Serbo-Croatian, 5% Ukrainian and Belorussian. The remaining 8% consists of Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, and other Eastern European languages. The overall collection grows by more than 10,000 items per year.

Outreach

Cornell Educational Resources in International Studies
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Region: Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East

The Cornell Einaudi Center for International Studies in partnership with Area Programs is committed to extending its resources to the wider community. Outreach programs in International Studies offer post-secondary conferences, professional development opportunities for teachers, public programming, business workshops, speakers bureaus, and much more.

Programs, Centers, and Institutes

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences, University-wide Centers

The mission of the Einaudi Center is to enhance the international dimensions of Cornell University’s curriculum and facilitate interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching, as well as serving as the umbrella support organization for more than twenty programs in area, thematic, and development studies at Cornell.

Projects and Initiatives

ILR Community Grant
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations

ILR International Programs (IP) is pleased to announce a small grant program for members of the ILR community (faculty, extension associates, staff, and students) for international activities. This program is not intended to be used to fund individual research or travel. Rather, it is designed to help provide funding for international activities that involve MULTIPLE constituents of the ILR School (faculty, students, alumni, labor, management, governments), while simultaneously raising ILR's international profile. IP will set aside a maximum of $12,000 per year to fund one or two (at most) proposals prepared by the ILR community. One condition of this program is that recipients commit to some sort of "public" deliverable (e.g., prepare reports or provide abstracts of papers from conferences that can be shared publicly on this ILR website). The specific "deliverable" in each case will be negotiated by the recipient of the grant and the IP faculty committee.

Publications

Study Abroad

Cornell Abroad

Students can begin their study abroad program search by browsing the links to Cornell sponsored programs and other academic study abroad options found in this site.

Cornell Abroad in Africa
Region: Africa

Cornell students regularly study in several African countries. From direct enrollment opportunities in universities in Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa to field-based programs in Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa and Tanzania, students have many options. The Cornell Abroad website maintains links to many programs, and walk-in advising is available every day from 1:30-3pm at 300 Caldwell Hall.

Cornell Abroad in Asia
Region: Asia

Cornell students regularly study in several Asian countries. From intensive language to field-based programs to immersion in another university, students have a wide range of choices. The Cornell Abroad website maintains links to many programs, and walk-in advising is available every day from 1:30-3pm at 300 Caldwell Hall.

Cornell Abroad in Europe
Region: Europe

Each year hundreds of students study abroad in European countries. The EDUCO program in Paris, jointly run by Cornell, Duke, and Emory Universities enables students to enroll directly in Parisian universities while the Cornell-Michigan-Penn program in Seville gives students the same opportunity in Spain. Students may directly enroll in many British universities and receive the support of the Cornell-Brown-Penn Centre in London. Cornell students may also choose from programs run both other universities or study abroad providers. The Cornell Abroad website maintains links to many programs, and walk-in advising is available every day from 1:30-3pm at 300 Caldwell Hall.

Cornell Abroad in Latin America
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

Cornell students regularly study in many Latin American countries. From intensive language to field-based programs to immersion in another university, students have a wide range of choices. The Cornell Abroad website maintains links to many programs, and walk-in advising is available every day from 1:30-3pm at 300 Caldwell Hall.

Cornell Abroad in the Middle East
Region: Middle East

Cornell students regularly study in several middle eastern countries improving their knowledge of Arabic, Hebrew, and issues affecting the region. With permission from their faculty advisor and college, students can study at the program of their choice. Students must sign an additional waiver to study in countries where there is a travel warning issued by the U.S. State Department. The Cornell Abroad website maintains links to many programs, and walk-in advising is available every day from 1:30-3pm at 300 Caldwell Hall.

Cornell-Michigan-Penn Sevilla Program
Region: Europe

EDUCO
Region: Europe

Engineering Study Abroad
Unit: College of Engineering

No matter what kind of engineering one chooses, there is a high probability that, at some point he or she will work at an international level. Whether dealing with professionals or clients from other countries, accepting an overseas assignment with a multi-national company, or teaching at a university or college outside the United States, professional opportunities are increasingly global.

Exchanges
Unit: College of Human Ecology

In addition to the many international exchanges available to undergraduates through the University’s Study Abroad office the College of Human Ecology maintains exchanges with universities in Kyoritsu, Japan; Göteborg, Sweden; and Seoul, Korea. The Division of Nutritional Sciences maintains formal collaborative networks with academic institutions, research centers, governments, and aid organizations around the world.

ILR School Study Abroad
Unit: School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Students in ILR who wish to study in another country have a choice of programs sponsored by Cornell, or by another institution and endorsed by Cornell, or ones approved external programs with sponsors.

Paris Summer Institute
Unit: Law School
Region: Europe

The Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law is an opportunity to study and compare the American, European, and Asian legal systems in a European setting. It combines the strengths of Cornell's faculty with the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, offering instruction in a uniquely international and culturally rich setting.

Student Opportunities
Unit: College of Human Ecology

The College of Human Ecology offers many internationally-oriented opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, including study abroad, student organizations, and courses, certificates, majors, and degree programs:

UK Cornell-Brown-Penn Centre
Region: Europe