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Marks of Distinction:Cornell was the first university to teach modern Far Eastern languages.
Cornell's Full-Year Asian Language Concentration (FALCON) program
provides unusually comprehensive and intensive one-year study of
Chinese or Japanese.
- FALCON is a registered certificate program with the New York State Department of Education. For more information visit:
- MA Asian Studies/MBA Dual Degree Program
- Of particular interest for graduate business students is the MBA/MA
in Asian Studies. This program affords an opportunity for students
interested in Asian business to combine the study of language and Asian
area studies with the MBA. The program generally takes three- to
three-and-a-half years to complete, with a three-semester (rather than
four-semester) residency requirement. Successful completion of a
one-year FALCON intensive language program may count as one of the two
semesters of residency in the Graduate School required for the M.A. in
Asian Studies. Fifteen "elective" Asian Studies credits can be applied
against the sixty-credit total required by the Johnson School. Students
should apply to both the Johnson Graduate School of Management and the
Cornell Graduate School; if denied admission to one of these programs,
students may enroll in the other.
