<p>Johns Hopkins offers 5-year accelerated [BA/MA[/url</a>] programs with both SAIS (the School of Advanced International Studies in DC) and Sciences Po (Sciences Politique et Economique in Paris). Both are among the very best graduate schools of their kind in the world. There may not be any other undergraduate IR programs that can plug you straight into a top graduate school after three years of study. </p>
<p>SAIS was recently ranked as the [url=<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_H._Nitze_School_of_Advanced_International_Studies%5D#1">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_H._Nitze_School_of_Advanced_International_Studies]#1</a> master's degree program in IR](<a href="http://web.jhu.edu/international/undergraduate.html%5DBA/MA%5B/url">http://web.jhu.edu/international/undergraduate.html) -- ahead of Georgetown, Harvard, Tufts, and Columbia -- for students interested in policy careers.</p>