<p>It goes without saying that Tufts has a phenomenal IR program, and I'm really interested in it! I was just wondering if there were any current Tufts students who can comment on the program: what they like about it/what they don't like about it. And also, would people consider IR the hardest major to get into at Tufts?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that once you’re in you can pursue pretty any major you choose; the only one that I know of that has restrictions on the number of students is Biomedical Engineering, which make it the hardest major to get into.</p>
<p>Tufts University offers some very good opportunities to undergraduates interested in social justice and third world development. As a graduate student at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, I’ve been very impressed with the seminars that students organise and the summer internships that students do. I’ve also been very impressed by undergraduates’ foreign language and presentation skills. </p>
<p>The Institute for Global Leadership provides a programme called Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship:
[EPIIC</a> (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) | Institute for Global Leadership](<a href=“Programs | Tufts Global Leadership”>EPIIC | Tufts Global Leadership)</p>
<p>The Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service also provides interesting programmes:
[Jonathan</a> M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service - Tufts University](<a href=“Homepage | Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life”>http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/)</p>
<p>In 2010-11, Tufts had a better conversion rate than Harvard for applicants getting the Fulbright - 17/63 Tufts students got it, while 17/84 Harvard students got it
[Table:</a> Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Students by Type of Institution, 2010-11 - Global - The Chronicle of Higher Education<a href=“This%20placed%20Tufts%20#7%20for%20best%20conversion%20rate%20for%20universities%20that%20produced%2017%20or%20more%20Fulbrights.”>/url</a></p>
<p>Foreign Policy magazine ranks Tufts undergraduate number 10 for international affairs, after Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, Columbia, Chicago, Dartmouth and Berkeley. It is ranked equal to Michigan, and above Duke, Williams College, Cornell, MIT, Swarthmore, Johns Hopkins, American University, UC San Diego, Brown etc.
[url=<a href=“http://imadahmed.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2009/03/17/international-affairs-programme-ratings/]International”>http://imadahmed.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2009/03/17/international-affairs-programme-ratings/]International</a> affairs programme ratings connecting the dots](<a href=“Table: Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Students by Type of Institution, 2010-11”>Table: Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Students by Type of Institution, 2010-11)</p>
<p>If business is something Alex would like to explore, he may want to look at the Gordon Institute’s Entrepreneurial Leadership programme: [The</a> Gordon Institute - Tufts University](<a href=“http://gordon.tufts.edu/entLeader/]The”>http://gordon.tufts.edu/entLeader/)</p>
<p>Pierre Omidyar, the founder and chairman of eBay (who is also a billionaire), is a Tufts alumnus, as are the publisher and chairman of The New York Times, the CEO of JP Morgan and two other Fortune 100 companies. Tufts ties second place after Harvard with UPenn and Dartmouth for the most Fortune 100 CEOs produced by an undergrad programme.
[Where</a> CEOs at America’s Largest Companies Went to College - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-jobs/articles/2010/11/15/where-ceos-at-americas-largest-companies-went-to-college]Where”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-jobs/articles/2010/11/15/where-ceos-at-americas-largest-companies-went-to-college)</p>
<p>Alex can also take business classes at The Fletcher School, one of the preeminent graduate schools of international affairs and a school which Tufts feeds into. An undergraduate took a class with me taught by a Fletcher alumnus who had been the former CFO of IBM under Lou Gerstner and CEO of Xerox. He had been awarded the French Legion of Honour by Jacques Chirac for his services to France while working as a top five ex at AmericanExpress and currently sits on the Trilateral Commission with Paul Volcker and Henry Kissinger, and sits on the board of Deutsche Bank, as well as 12 other boards. The class had 14 people in it, and we were able to become well acquainted with our professor.</p>
<p>Prominent faculty include Ayesha Jalal, a preeminent South Asian historian, Daniel Dennett, one of the famous atheist philosophers, Vali Nasr, a Middle East and South Asian affairs expert who was recently a special adviser to the Obama administration and is also an alumnus of both Tufts and Fletcher, Daniel Drezner, an international political economist who keeps a well-known blog on Foreign Policy, Jeswald Salacuse, an international law professor who is also the president of the World Bank’s International Arbitration Tribunal and chairman of a fund, and Michael Klein, who is currently serving as the chief economist at the US Treasury of International Affairs.</p>
<p>Here’s a Wikipedia list of Tufts graduates and notable faculty: [List</a> of Tufts University people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“List of Tufts University people - Wikipedia”>List of Tufts University people - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>You’re responding to a two year old post!</p>