Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations

The School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) is an industrial relations school at Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. The School's departments include: Collective Bargaining, Labor Law and History, Human Resource Studies, Labour Economics, Organizational Behavior; and Social Statistics. The school had 1,661 applicants in 2014 and accepted 231 of them (14% acceptance rate).

Established by the state legislature in 1945, the school is a statutory or contract college through the State University of New York (SUNY) system and receives funding from the State of New York. It was the world's first school for college-level study in workplace issues and remains one of a handful of four-year undergraduate programs focused on work and employment. In addition to its undergraduate curriculum, the school offers professional and doctoral degrees, as well as executive education programs.

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