<p>Particularly for Political Science majors. I'm just browsing around for possible choices I'll be making in a couple years and figure that I shouldn't limit my search to just within the U.S., it'd be quite fascinating to live in another country after spending my entire life living in Southern California.</p>
<p>Particularly within the UK and Canada.</p>
<p>I heard that the London School of Economics was a good choice for my major, true?</p>
<p>London School of Economics is great.
but i heard the UK education system is quite different from ours. u mite hav a hard time adjusting</p>
<p>UK:
Oxford
St Andrews
King's College (part of the University of London)
Warwick
Briston
Cambridge</p>
<p>McGill in Montreal.</p>
<p>I could be wrong... but i think it might be extremely difficult for you to be accepted to UK universities (unless you are doing the IB diploma)</p>
<p>Extremely difficult? Not really. The British system looks at a different set of qualifications; the emphasis is on your testing and academic acheivement rather than the extracurricular emphasis at American elite institutions.</p>
<p>For politics and international relations, LSE and St. Andrews are very strong in the UK. I'm also from Southern California; I'll be at St. Andrews next year!</p>
<p>I heard American University in Paris is pretty good too.</p>
<p>I dont know much about international schools but my superr smart and amazing friend applied to Oxford and University of Edinburgh, but only got into the latter.</p>
<p>Alexandre,</p>
<p>Why'd you leave out LSE? It's def. one of the UK's top universities...</p>
<p>Yes it is. It must have skipped my mind.</p>
<p>Funny you should mention LSE and St. Andrews, EbonyPheonix. I'm debating between international relations at the two next year. Having researched each of them and found that they're pretty different but I'm not sure which I'd prefer. In terms of the school and not the programs they're essentially polar opposites. Which do y'all feel has the better program?</p>
<p>Trinity in Ireland</p>
<p>McGill in Canada</p>
<p>Leipzig in Netherlands</p>
<p>Melbourne in Australia</p>
<p>Heidelberg in Germany</p>
<p>Tokyo in Japan</p>
<p>Bogazici in Turkey</p>
<p>Seoul National in Korea</p>
<p>Imperial college and Manchester university.... both very good for physics and engineering</p>
<p>TakeoOkada- I really don't know a whole lot about LSE or their program, but I know the one at St. Andrews is top notch. Obviously though LSE has an extremely great reputation (but St. Andrews is very good as well, especially in IR). When I was applying I only considered Scottish unis because they are more compatiable with our American education system. St. Andrews lets you take three subjects in first year and any one of those can be your "major," so that really appealed to me because I'm not entirely decided yet and would like to learn about some different things anyway. For me, I like St. Andrews because of the community spirit. It's a small town and everyone knows everyone, which I really like; others might complain it's claustrophobic... just depends! They have loads of societies and sports and I think it is very easy to make good friends there. And the town is stunning and absolutely beautiful with the old buildings and whatnot! I am in love with St. Andrews. LSE is more of a city environment, and for me I would take the calming small town feel of St. Andrews any day. I think both have absolutely superior reputations for politics though, so you can't go wrong with either!</p>
<p>York in the UK is also a good school to consider for politics (for the original poster).</p>
<p>The American University of Paris has an excellent international and comparative politics program.</p>
<p>University College London
University of British Columbia
Toronto
Waterloo</p>
<p>have not been mentioned.</p>
<p>McGill is great</p>
<p>I'm from Canada... some of our best are</p>
<p>McGill
Queens
UBC
Waterloo
U of T</p>