<p>i heard that us news ranked georgetown #2 in international relations, beehind johns hopkins.... is this true??? why does johns hopkins hae a higher ranking than georgetown for its most prized program??? Oh yeah, and if anybody find this list, where do harvard and yale rank??? Thanks</p>
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i heard that us news ranked georgetown #2 in international relations, beehind johns hopkins.... is this true??? why does johns hopkins hae a higher ranking than georgetown for its most prized program??? Oh yeah, and if anybody find this list, where do harvard and yale rank??? Thanks
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<p>I currently have a Premium OEd of USNWR's rankings (2006, I bought it for a girl who's thinking of transferring)... I don't see an IR curriculum ranking anywhere. JHU is notably absent from, however, USNWR's rankings of study abroad programs. </p>
<p>If one were to justify the statement that JHU has the superior IR program, then it would probably be in regards to the Nitzi School of Advanced International Studies, which I believe is a graduate school.</p>
<p>I have a list that came from counselors office regardeing International Relations programs. I don't think its US News or anything, maybe just a tool published specifically for guidance counselors or something. Anyways I have photocopies of the lists for International Relations, Political Science, Russian, Economics, and Russian/Slavic Studies. These are the lists for undergraduate programs too btw. Harvard is ranked 6th, and Yale isn't on here. I'll list the top 5 for IR, followed by their score:</p>
<p>Tufts University 4.88
Princeton University 4.85
John Hopkins University 4.83
Georgetown University 4.79
U Penn 4.78</p>
<p>Yea i heard JHU relations program is better. They got connection i guess, the previous dean is now the World Bank guy</p>
<p>wait...georgetown doesnt specifically have international relations...neither does princeton...what scores are these?</p>
<p>this has to be graduate school rankings since georgetown and princeton dont have undergrad IR</p>
<p>Hmmm yea thats true. They do specifically say undergraduate so I dont know.</p>
<p>The list you are referring to was published by Foreign Policy magazine, I don't recall if they actually conducted the survey, but Georgetown's IR Masters was ranked #2 and PhD program in the midteens, I think #15.</p>
<p>Ok, I actually took my copy of FP home so I could finish reading it over break, here are the details. FP ran a survey of IR scholars (1,000+ responded). </p>
<p>"...For scholarly pursuits, Harvard easily leads the field...For those who want to walk the corridors of power- not study them- Johns Hopkins and Georgetown University win the most praise."</p>
<p>This most likely is the reason that JHU and GU have much lower rankings for their PhD programs. Scholars and academics tend to get PhDs while those with more pragmatic ambitions tend to only get masters (or law degrees)...(that is my understanding, not the magazine's assertion).</p>
<p>For the record...
Top PhD Programs (for IR)
1. Harvard (75%)
2. Columbia (48%)
3. Stanford (47%)
4. Princeton (43%)
5. U Chicago (36%)
13. Johns Hopkins (9%)
14. Georgetown (8%)</p>
<p>Top Masters IR Programs
1. Johns Hopkins (65%)
2. Georgetown (62%)
3. Harvard (47%)
4. Tufts (45%)
5. Columbia (45%)</p>
<p>The survey was conducted by asking the scholars to name the top five institutions for the Masters and PhD programs. The percentage is the percentage of scholars that listed that university in the top 5.</p>
<p>I remember reading an official (I believe from the SFS deans) response to this, but I cannot recall/track down where.</p>
<p>Hope that helps...it's the November/December issue of FP.</p>
<p>bobbobbob: Princeton does offer IR; it's got "Woody Woo," as Princeton students like to call it (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs).</p>
<p>What he is saying is that Princeton (as well as Georgetown) don't offer IR degrees. Princeton has the WW school but their undergrad degree is more of a multi-disciplinary study as opposed to an explicit concentration of IR.</p>