While I know most suggestions will contain the Ivies, I want other options; I am already considering Yale and UPenn, so I would like some different suggestions please!
What schools do you believe to have the strongest IS/IR/GS programs? Schools that have a strong political science background? These are subjects I would like to pursue in college, so I need to start getting back into narrowing down my list. Several months from now I will start on my journey with applications, so thanks to anyone that can help!
UCSD, NYU, Rochester and Ohio State all have good graduate programs in that field, so I can’t imagine their undergraduate programs being bad.
Ohio State will also likely be very generous with scholarships if you are truly a Yale-caliber applicant. Great college football too.
Foreign Policy produced undergraduate and graduate rankings based on a survey of “1,615 IR scholars drawn from 1,375 U.S. colleges and universities.” Those scholars believed the following colleges provided the best undergraduate preparation for a career in IR:
- Harvard University 46.20%
- Princeton University 39.14%
- Stanford University 33.02%
- Georgetown University 28.06%
- Columbia University 24.37%
- University of Chicago 19.62%
- Yale University 18.67%
- George Washington University 11.39%
- American University 9.92%
- University of Michigan 9.49%
- University of California—Berkeley 8.54%
- Dartmouth College 8.23%
- University of California—San Diego 7.70%
- Tufts University 7.07%
- Cornell University 6.43%
- Johns Hopkins University 6.12%
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5.06%
- College of William & Mary 4.54%
- Swarthmore College 3.48%
- Williams College 2.95%
- University of California—Los Angeles 2.85%
- Brown University 2.74%
- University of Virginia 2.74%
- Ohio State University 2.64%
- Duke University 2.22%
Schools that made the MA and/or PhD rankings but not the undergraduate ranking:
NYU
Syracuse
Texas A&M
U Denver
U Minnesota
U Pittsburgh
U Rochester
U Wisconsin