<p>I am prospective applicant for ED this fall and I am extremely intrigued by Columbia's Political Science. I know it is highly ranked and all.......but I wasn't too impressed with the course lists compared with other schools. In reality, I would like to do International Relations and I heard Columbia definitely has a international outlook, but judging from the course list of the Poli sci dept and some of the other departments it just doesn't seem too impressive. Can anyone comment on this? Is Columbia Poli Sci./IR really the ****?</p>
<p>I can't comment on the undergraduate program specifically, but for what it's worth Columbia</a> has one of the top four academic international relations departments in the US.</p>
<p>I'm thinking of doing Poli-Sci there.</p>
<p>thanks for that study General Rak</p>
<p>I'm going there in the fall, so I don't know from experience. But from everything I've heard, Columbia's poli sci program is amazing -- and you can't get a much more international city than New York.</p>
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<p>Note that Columbia has no IR major. SIPA is a graduate program with its own faculty. Your continued posting of such info -- without telling the full story -- is a bit misleading, to say the least.</p>
<p>Columbia's poli sci department is easily a top 10 program, maybe even top 5 in certain areas. It has some pretty well-known names like Shapiro and (for me at least) Shigeo Hirano.</p>
<p>BTW, Columbia2002, I thought that at least a few of the SIPA faculty will do work from time-to-time in the poli sci department? Am I wrong? I could've sworn my buddy was taking a class with the dean at SIPA (Anderson?). </p>
<p>But yeah, Columbia's a great department.</p>
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Note that Columbia has no IR major. SIPA is a graduate program with its own faculty. Your continued posting of such info -- without telling the full story -- is a bit misleading, to say the least.
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<p>And again I remind you that I am not referring at all to SIPA, but instead to Columbia's academic international relations faculty. Perhaps if you actually read the study I linked to, you might get a clue.</p>
<p>Or perhaps Columbia's [url=<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/lists/faculty-alpha.html%5Dwebsite%5B/url">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/lists/faculty-alpha.html]website[/url</a>] lies when it lists such scholars as Robert Jervis, Jack Snyder, Richard Betts, and Robert Legvold as members of the department?</p>
<p>Columbia's political science department is ranked #1 in the world by a study conducted by LSE. Harvard is #2. I love Columbia but its also important to remember that rankings arent uncontestable facts - its sometimes hard to prove that one school or department is the best in the world (sometimes these rankings dont take into account the quality of one's peers at the school which is vital for good discussion, and other intangibles). </p>
<p>It IS true though that Columbia has the diversity and magnetism of NYC to attract the world's biggest speakers to its campus. It also has an excellent School of Law and has all of the resources for internships at law firms as well as other organizations inside NYC.</p>