<p>I will be a senior in the fall and intend on majoring in International Relations at a competitive college. Aside from Georgetown's SFS, what other schools offer a similar foreign service / international relations program?</p>
<p>The Ivies don't have "foreign service" programs per se but many of them have have international relations majors, and the rest have some form of international relations concentration within their PSCI majors. Some even offer both IR and PSCI with an IR concentration.</p>
<p>Schools with great IR programs need great history, economics, PSCI, and area studies departments to back them up.</p>
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<p>i don't believe anything quite compares to georgetown when it comes to FS/IR ;)</p>
<p>The number of Fulbright Scholars a school produces is a good indicator of the strength of its IR program. If you do a search, there are a number of threads (from ~3 weeks ago) that talk about schools with a large number of Fulbrights.</p>
<p>PS Tufts is supposed to be really good in IR</p>
<p>Tufts, Georgetown, and JHU are tops</p>
<p>JHU's IR people (SAIS) are located in DC, not Baltimore...</p>
<p>Is that true for undergrads Johnny?</p>
<p>No, you can study international studies at JHU's undergrad baltimore campus.</p>
<p>What I meant by that is that the powerhouse people that give JHU its (rightful) reputation as an IR powerhouse are at SAIS</p>
<p>i.e. Francis ***uyama is in DC, not Baltimore</p>
<p>^ I love how Francis fu kuyama gets censored haha :D</p>
<p>I'd add Columbia as well, simply because it's location allows for great internship oppurtunities and hands on experience in the field.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins--arguably #1</p>
<p>I'm assuming your goal is to get into international law, diplomacy, some sort of UN track, right?</p>
<p>Majoring in Polisci or Econ, and taking classes regarding international relations from a top school is just as good, or better, than majoring in straight up IR. Many Polisci majors at top schools have an International Relations concentration. </p>
<p>Thats what kids at most Ivies and top schools do, since they don't have an IR major available. Look at lists of Fulbright to see what schools have the largest international scope in their studies. You'll be surprised by the strength of schools that don't have IR majors.</p>
<p>ses - Columbia is close to the UN, yes, but the schools proximity doesn't give it preference for prestigious summer internship programs. The application process for most top internships are open to all schools. It should be recommended for being a top school all-around, not for being in NYC (after all, DC is the center of politics anyways).</p>
<p>Again, Columbia is also an Ivy, all of which are excellent schools for this sort of thing</p>
<p>JHU's undergraduate international studies program, while not a degree from SAIS, their graduate school, is still a top IR program. I still hold my ground that Tufts, Gtown, and JHU have the top intl studies undergraduate programs. Their graduate programs, unsurprisingly, are also top-notch.</p>
<p>Anything in DC will offer great opportunities.</p>
<p>Also try American and GWU.</p>
<p>OK, time for a little thread hijacking.</p>
<p>I like the looks of Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. But I don't know what major to pick. Does Accounting or International Relations give better flexibility? If you're an IR major, do you pretty much have to get a job with lots of travel and the like? Is it possible to get a domestic business job with an IR degree? Is it possible to combine these two majors? </p>
<p>I'm basing these questions on McDonough, but I suppose they apply to any similar business school.</p>
<p>Yes you can get a domestic business job with an IR degree. Naturally, you are going to want to take economics and finance courses, but an IR degree does not force you to travel around the world lol.</p>
<p>It is very common for individuals to supplement IR with Economics or Finance, as it gives them more flexibility.</p>
<p>Anyway, several individuals (I think 2?) in my investment bank summer analyst class are IR majors from Georgetown and one from JHU</p>
<p>You can't study IR at McDonough -- you have to go to the SFS school for that. There is probably, however, an intl business type major in McD.</p>