<p>I want to major in International Relations and minor in French and <em>hopefully</em> African Studies (a lot of schools don't offer that).
What would be a good school for this? Please, no Ivy League.
So far I have found Georgetown, Tufts, George Washington, Seton Hall and George Mason.</p>
<p>Check out univ of st andrews in scotland</p>
<p>It is supposedly good for ir, and has african studies and french</p>
<p>woops, forgot to mention that it has to be in the US, preferably on the East Coast… Studying abroad can be so expensive :/</p>
<p>William and mary</p>
<p>Johns hopkins</p>
<p>thanks, I’ll look into those two!</p>
<p>University of Virginia</p>
<p>Boston College</p>
<p>American University</p>
<p>Georgetown and GWU are your best best. UChicago is ranked pretty highly as well; on the decline, but it might be cool to catch Mearsheimer before he retires. American is not bad either. </p>
<p>Too bad that you’re ruling out the Ivy’s; they attract by far the biggest proportion of star faculty.</p>
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<p>Hopefully not so you can get a job as a foreign service officer.</p>
<p>I’m not sure exactly what I want to do yet but I would like to work for the UN</p>
<p>If you’re interrested in African Studies, then you might check into some of the schools that have national resource centers in African Studies:
Boston University (also has a good IR Dept.)
Indiana U (has a good French dept.; also has a Language Flagship program in Swahili)
Michigan State
Florida
Berkeley (has a good French dept., too)
Kansas
UNC
Wisconsin (good French dept; also has the only African Languages & Literatures Dept in the country, though other schools offer African languages too, especially UCLA, which also has a good French dept.)</p>
<p>Northwestern might be another possibility for African studies.</p>
<p>If you want to attend a school with strong programs in all three of those disciplines (especially International Relations) and with small classes to really get to know your professors, I would strongly consider Macalester College. The school has a number of connections with the United Nations, Peace Corps, and other international-based programs.</p>
<p>Check out some of these professors-- Nadya Nedelsky, David Blaney, Wendy Weber, Jean-Pierre Karegeye, Erik Larson, Bill Moseley-- online to get a better idea for what the program entails.</p>
<p>You would absolutely love tufts, so i’m glad you’re looking there! the undergraduate program in IR is great, and allows you to focus on a huge variety of different things- from a region (such as west africa, for your french), to a topic (such as security or economics or development). Definitely apply!</p>
<p>Does anyone know anything about Embry Riddle? Would that be an okay school to look into? I’ve been thinking about ROTC also and I know that’s a good school for that.</p>