New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations

The New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University (ILR) is an industrial relations school and one of the four statutory colleges at Cornell University. The school has five academic departments which include: Labor Economics, Human Resource Management, Global Labor and Work, Organizational Behavior, and Statistics & Data Science. 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 as one of the leading institutions for industrial relations. In addition to its undergraduate curriculum, the school offers professional and doctoral degrees, as well as executive education programs. In Fall 2016, the School received 1,925 freshman applications and accepted 235 students (12.2% acceptance rate).