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Charles H Dyson School of Applied Econo…

Private

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1911

Founded

The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management is a unit within both the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the newly founded Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York.

With an acceptance rate of 3%, The Dyson School is the most selective program in the Cornell University system. The Dyson School houses Cornell's undergraduate business school as well as graduate education in applied economics. The school focuses on business, agribusiness, environmental and resource economics, and international and development economics offering a Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics and Management and three graduate degrees, M.S., M.P.S. and Ph.D, in Applied Economics and Management. As of 2017, the Dyson School has 64 full-time faculty and 17 lecturers or adjunct faculty. In 2015, there were 104 graduate students and 735 undergraduates in Dyson School. Of these 735 undergraduates, 39% are female students and 11% international students. The program was originally named the Department of Agricultural Economics, then renamed Applied Economics and Management in 2002, and most recently, renamed in 2010 in honor of Charles H. Dyson following a US $25 million donation by his family, including his son, John S. Dyson, '65. The program offers students the opportunity to venture into one of 11 distinct concentrations from Accounting to Strategy and these serve to enrich the educational experience of undergraduate and graduate students alike.

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