<p>If you had a choice between an okay college with an incredible program that would give you a lot of opportunities at the United Nations, but was in NYC (and possibly a full ride) or Georgetown with all the wonders of DC, knowing that you wanted a career in IR, which would you choose?</p>
<p>the full ride one</p>
<p>Hey have you been talking to my Dad? LOL Isn't GU worth the debt? Won't a GU education and all it stands for write my ticket to the future?</p>
<p>Lol no i haven't...but if it's such an incredible program and opens up opportunities in the UN, that can give you a ticket to a career in the UN/IR in general as well. Otherwise I would say Gtown, but also see what finaid you can get from gtown...sometimes it just takes a lot of calling and pleaing</p>
<p>the NYC one deff. youll save your money and get all all the opportunities that gtown has and possibly more. u cant get any more international than the UN. btw which college are u referring to?</p>
<p>I don't know what others think about this college but it's SHU and their Whitehead School of Diplomacy. SHU isn't anywhere near the school that GU is, but the Whitehead School seemed like it had a great program. I really am interested in IR and Whitehead assures me that I will practically live at the UN. All the money my parents have saved for tuition would be money in my pocket because of the full ride. At GU I'm going to be window shopping a lot! But I love DC and can take or leave NYC. I applied to both places and GU probably won't even take me and then the decision will be made for me. What do you think now? (my God, I just read this and I sound like a nut!)</p>
<p>well..then theres not much you can do until you find out wether or not u got into GU :)</p>
<p>So you would like to work at the UN or in IR? Check out LinkedIn:</a> Relationships Matter and do a company search for the United Nations</p>
<p>According to this:</p>
<p>Popular schools at the UN include:
Columbia Univ. - School of Intl. and Public Affairs 2%
London School of Economics and Political Science 1%
New York Univ. 1%
Inst. d'Etudes politiques de Paris 1%
Columbia Univ. in the City of New York </p>
<p>When people leave the UN a lot go to:
UNICEF
The World Bank</p>
<p>Popular schools at UNICEF include:
New York Univ. 1%
Columbia Univ. - School of Intl. and Public Affairs 1%
Univ. van Amsterdam 1%
London School of Economics and Political Science 1%
Københavns Universitet 1% </p>
<p>Popular schools at the World Bank include:
The George Washington Univ. 3%
The Johns Hopkins Univ. 2%
London School of Economics and Political Science 2%
Georgetown Univ. 2% </p>
<p>Granted this link does not differentiate bachelor's degrees from graduate degrees. And you'll obviously need a graduate degree and most likely a foreign language to get a professional position in any of these organizations, but LSE, Columbia, NYU, Hopkins and Georgetown may be good places to look for graduate school. They'll be happy to take the money you saved on undergrad.</p>
<p>So young but so very wise! Thank you for the info.</p>
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<p>Maybe I'm cynical, but having a graduated from Gtown had I the opportunity to do it over again I would have gone to a state school and saved the money. Gtown is a great school but I think I could have succeeded anywhere and liked it. That's easy for me to say in retrospect, but at the time I was making a college decision the name was too much for me to turn down.</p>
<p>But state colleges don't open doors like the name GU does. Are you doing what you wanted to do? Are you getting the salary you wanted to get? Could you have even gotten an interview let alone a chance if you didn't have GU on your diploma? Sorry, I think I'm more cynical than you.</p>
<p>For what I'm doing, where I went to college made no difference. If I wanted to go into investment banking or consulting it probably would have. The name will help for your first job, but after that no one cares. Most people care about your work experience, not where you went to college. Trust me, there's a lot to be said for coming out of school with no debt. You should see if Whitehead has a list of where their alumni work (most colleges do) and see if it's the kind of jobs your interested in.</p>
<p>This link shows where Georgetown students went after graduation. Other schools should have something similar.</p>
<p>Thank you sportula and 1789, you've been really helpful. My parents are bribing me now, saying that all the money they put aside for tuition can be money in my pocket to do all the traveling and things that I wouldn't be as able to do if I went to GU. With the right investments, I could be debt free and well traveled. Lots to think about... Have a nice Thanksgiving!</p>