Beyond strict academics, Cornell also offers an extremely practical program: Its School of Hotel Administration, founded in 1950 as the first in the U.S., grew out of the home economics department in the college of agriculture in response to the growth in the tourist industry.
學術領域之外，康乃爾也有非常實用的課程﹘ ﹘全美第一所飯店管理學院。這所學院成立於一九五○年，主要的立意是放眼觀光事業成長，因此從農學院家政系分出來，成為獨立學院。