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Forces leading to the creation of the School came from leaders in American business, industry, labor, government, and education, who felt that a new type of school was needed that focused on issues involving the American workplace. Cornell, with its dual Ivy League and state university heritage (see Cornell University for a listing of its state-supported and privately-endowed units), seemed to be an ideal place, among such aforementioned leaders, for a school that specialized in workplace issues.
The School is divided into six departments: Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History; Human Resource Studies; International and Comparative Labor Relations; Labor Economics; Organizational Behavior; and Social Statistics. The School offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science; Master of Industrial and Labor Relations (offered both on the main Ithaca, New York campus as well as in New York City); Master of Professional Studies (designed for those who are already practitioners in the field of industrial and labor relations); Master of Science (designed for those who plan on pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree), and Doctor of Philosophy. It can be noted that the School offers the United States' only full four-year undergraduate program in industrial and labor relations.
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