<p>anybody got any ideas? rankings would be nice...</p>
<p>international relations: Georgetown</p>
<p>Tufts is really good for IR.</p>
<p>In the somewhat less selective range: American University for both areas.</p>
<p>Have heard Emory is very good for IR too.</p>
<p>what about Princeton? I heard that it was good. I'm curious myself.</p>
<p>IR: Princeton, Hopkins, Tufts, Georgetown, Brown, George Washington, Stanford, Chicago
Poli Sci: Harvard, Berkeley, Yale, Michigan, Stanford, Chicago, Princeton, UCSD, Rochester</p>
<p>i'm a northwestern fan...</p>
<p>Macalester if you want a LAC</p>
<p>Isn't Yale good at IR too? They have a very selective International Studies program that I think sophomores have to apply to and if they get in, they study IR as a double major. I heard it was really good.</p>
<p>You can only do International Studies at Yale as a double major, which is difficult because you can only take a certain number of classes for both majors (I think two; that is you can only have two classes count for both majors) and have to write two theses. I wouldn't recommend it if you know you want to do International Studies/ Relations.
Princeton's poli sci program is great, but I don't think its IR program is very good for undergrad. The Woodrow Wilson school tends to focus more on domestic government and public policy at the undergrad level, and they don't have an IR or IS major.
I agree that Tufts, Georgetown, Macalester, and American have great departments.</p>
<p>All of the Ivies, Stanford, Duke, Gtown, NU...</p>
<p>Poli sci in general:</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Michigan
Columbia
Stanford
Cornell
Berkeley
UCSD
UCLA
Chicago
Rochester...
most of the rest of the top 25 are pretty good for poli sci in general. I don't know that as an undergrad the department is going to make that big of a difference. Tufts is a great option, as are the rest of the top LACs.</p>
<p>dittogal,</p>
<p>What's your interest in IR?</p>
<p>One of the reasons I think Yale is a top school for IR is because their Model UN team is the best in the country and therefore, many members of the team have met ambassadors and numerous UN delegates. The connections one can make at Yale and being on that team are priceless.</p>
<p>Well, that and the department is really good if you go the academic route instead.</p>
<p>UCLAri, i want to be an international lawyer and hopefully work at a private firm (preferably in ny) or at the UN someday with a concentration of human rights and war crimes. well, i'm still debating about whether to major in poli science or international relations. anyway, i could double major but to be honest with you i'd rather minor in one of them.</p>
<p>my top dream choice is yale but i really DO NOT think i will get in so my next choices were tufts (favorite), georgetown and columbia which was ranked #2 in international law i think as a grad school. well, right now i'm mostly likely going to tufts or georgetown and majoring in poli science and minoring in IR and very hopefully i'd love to go to yale for law school.</p>
<p>i've got some more questions if you guys dont mind (hehe i must be SO annoying...):</p>
<p>1) can anyone give me anymore info on that yale international studies program you guys have been talking about?</p>
<p>2) for what im interested in, what's the best major for me?</p>
<p>3) how good exactly is columbia in IR?</p>
<p>4) what are the differences between tufts and georgetown in terms of academics?</p>
<p>thanks for all the help so far! i appreciate it!</p>
<p>dittogal,</p>
<p>Don't worry too much about your major for law school, as it's not a huge issue. Most of the skills you will require as an attorney you will learn in law school anyway. The difference between poli sci and IR for many schools is also negligible, with the IR programs at most schools that I know of just being sub-fields of poli sci/government to begin with. </p>
<p>Columbia is easily a top 10, maybe even top 5 IR program. It's VERY good.</p>
<p>American SIS
Columbia
Tufts
Georgetown SFS
Harvard
Princeton
London School of Economics and Politics
Northwestern</p>
<p>subjective. subjective. subjective.</p>
<p>can you guys please post your credentials when replying to these type of posts? The title "Harvard mom" does not cut it...</p>
<p>I believe that at one point recently, the U.S. ambassadors to France, Russia, China, Britain and the United Nations were all Yale graduates. Seems to say something good about Yale IR. To be more serious, though, Yale actually has one of the best programs by far. They have a new building and everything, and major donations allowing students to travel just about anywhere they want to do research, on Yale's dime.</p>
<p>Gourman says (and the National Academy of Sciences/Natl Research Council has the same schools in the top four):</p>
<p>UNDERGRADUATE POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS:</p>
<h1>1 Yale University 4.92/5.0</h1>
<h1>2 Harvard University 4.91</h1>
<h1>3 University of California-Berkeley 4.90</h1>
<h1>4 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 4.89</h1>
<h1>5 University of Chicago 4.87</h1>
<h1>6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4.86</h1>
<h1>7 Stanford University 4.84</h1>
<h1>8 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4.83</h1>
<h1>9 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 4.82</h1>
<h1>10 Cornell University4.80</h1>
<h1>11 Princeton University 4.78</h1>
<h1>12 University of California-Los Angeles 4.76</h1>
<h1>13 Northwestern University 4.75</h1>
<h1>14 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 4.74</h1>
<h1>15 Columbia University 4.73</h1>
<p>jhk43,</p>
<p>I have a BA in political science (admittedly in comparative, though I did take a fair amount of IR) and I am currently enrolled at UCSD IR/PS (classes start in Sept.)</p>
<p>Feel free to message me, and I can set up to have me respond from my email address at either school.</p>