<p>hello, can anyone tell me what the best programs for the following subjects are?</p>
<ul>
<li>museum administration/art history/archeology</li>
</ul>
<p>or</p>
<ul>
<li>international relations/diplomacy</li>
</ul>
<p>THANKS A LOT!</p>
<p>I know University of Washington has well established museum studies program. SIPA, SAIS, UCSD's IR/PS (if your into Asian studies), Fletcher, and HEI are some of the big programs for IR/IS.</p>
<p>Cool - read the first page of posts in the "Grad School Admissions 101" thread. </p>
<p>The fields you mentioned are very wide - the top schools in Classical Archaeology, for example, are not the same as the ones in, say, Egyptology, or pre-Columbian. Same for Art History, and I suspect, for IR (Western or Eastern Europe, China, India...?). Museum admin is a bit less specialized, but still, there is surely some degree of specialization - if you're looking for a job at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, I'm 99% sure the academic pre-requisites will be different than those at the Field Museum.</p>
<p>Incidentally, all of those fields will require at fluency in at least one modern "research" language in addition to the one or two that you'll need for the major itself. For example, a PhD in Classical Archaeology will require Latin, Greek, German, and French or Italian (or possibly modern Greek). So whatever you do, keep the language requirements in mind.</p>
<p>Now, relax and forget about grad school until you have taken some upper level classes in your undergrad major.</p>
<p>If memory serves, the Museum of Natural History just initiated a joint PhD program with one of the New York schools, probably Columbia. Check the museum's website.</p>
<p>If you don't know what you want to do out of that very broad list, then you don't want to go to grad school.</p>
<p>Trust me.</p>