<p>I was planning on either double majoring or majoring in international relations and minoring in economics. What are some good schools to look at? Particularly those in an Urban environment.</p>
<p>Huntsman Program in Wharton at Penn.</p>
<p>Tufts University!</p>
<p>Georgetown, George Washington University, Syracuse University, & University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Penn, Georgetown, and UChicago</p>
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<p>Rankings
Economics
Ranked in 2009 </p>
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Rank College name Distance Score </p>
<p>1 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Enter your zip 5.0<br>
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Enter your zip 5.0<br>
1 Princeton University Princeton , NJ Enter your zip 5.0<br>
1 University of Chicago Chicago, IL Enter your zip 5.0<br>
5 Stanford University Stanford, CA Enter your zip 4.9<br>
6 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA Enter your zip 4.8<br>
6 Yale University New Haven, CT Enter your zip 4.8<br>
8 Northwestern University Evanston, IL Enter your zip 4.7<br>
9 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Enter your zip 4.4<br>
10 Columbia University New York, NY Enter your zip 4.3<br>
10 University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN Enter your zip 4.3<br>
12 New York University New York, NY Enter your zip 4.2<br>
12 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI Enter your zip 4.2<br>
14 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA Enter your zip 4.1<br>
14 University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Enter your zip 4.1<br>
14 University of California–San Diego La Jolla, CA Enter your zip 4.1<br>
14 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI Enter your zip 4.1<br>
18 Cornell University Ithaca, NY Enter your zip 3.9<br>
19 Brown University Providence, RI Enter your zip 3.8<br>
19 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA Enter your zip 3.8<br>
19 Duke University Durham, NC Enter your zip 3.8<br>
22 University of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD Enter your zip 3.7<br>
22 University of Rochester Rochester, NY Enter your zip 3.7<br>
24 Boston University Boston, MA Enter your zip 3.6<br>
25 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Enter your zip 3.5 </p>
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<p>2009 International Relations Rankings</p>
<p>Undergraduate programs
Rank School Percent
1 Harvard University 21
2 Princeton University 16
3 Yale University 12
4 Stanford University 12
5 Georgetown University 12
6 Columbia University 11
7 University of Chicago 7
8 Dartmouth College 5
9 University of California, Berkeley 4
10 Tufts University 3
10 University of Michigan 3
12 Duke University 3
13 Williams College 2
13 Cornell University 2
13 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2
16 Swarthmore College 2
17 Johns Hopkins University 2
17 American University 2
19 University of California, San Diego 2
19 Brown University 2</p>
<p>strongly recommend Columbia, it’s in the international relations capital of the world. Econ is top notch as is the international politics program.</p>
<p>Other schools fitting your criteria which are in or in the suburbs of a big city:</p>
<p>georgetown, chicago, upenn, harvard, NYU.</p>
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<li>Johns Hopkins University </li>
<li>Georgetown University </li>
<li>Harvard University </li>
<li>Tufts University </li>
<li>Columbia University </li>
<li>Princeton University </li>
<li>George Washington University </li>
<li>American University </li>
<li>Syracuse University </li>
<li>University of California, San Diego </li>
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<p>I would check out Tufts and Georgetown.</p>
<p>A lot of those “international relations” schools are grad schools, not undergrad. Check to see if the school offers an undergrad IR major.</p>
<p>Thanks! So I’m pretty good with my ‘reaches’, what safeties/matches should I consider? I want them to have great economic/international relations programs but still be possible to get into (maybe 40-50% acceptance?)</p>
<p>I don’t feel like posting all my stats, but I have a good shot at the schools on the other lists.
BTW, I live in New Jersey.</p>
<p>Check out Princeton’s Woody Woo 
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<p>American is probably a match.</p>
<p>Those rankings johnadams posted are for graduate programs…pretty meaningless</p>