<p>Who's got top courses & professors?</p>
<p>Georgetown SFS does. It is the best school hands down for International Relations. :)</p>
<p>Yale is the best or Princeton</p>
<p>Check out the Woodrow Wilson school at Princeton. It is very highly regarded, but it is selective within the Princeton community.</p>
<p>yeah, you've got to work your butt of underclass men years, because it's so selective. I would reccomend falling in love with the school before woodrow wilson</p>
<p>You should look into Tufts University; it has a strong IR program.</p>
<p>I would assume Johns Hopkins. Or so I've been told.</p>
<p>Hopkins is the best</p>
<p>Agreed; hopkins has the best, well-known IR program. Hard to get into (I've heard one has to apply to that specific program during sophomore yr or something )</p>
<p>Tufts > Hopkins. Quality and selectivity wise. I think that georgetown is considered the very best, though. George washington u is a very good too, and extremely easy to get into when compared with the other "top" schools.</p>
<p>Why is international relations so popular of a major?</p>
<p>Sometimes, I think IR is so popular, because people think it might be easy; and when they discover that if you really want high-powered positions after graduation, you should have fluency in at least one other language, they bail out & stick with straight politics or history.
I think this is sometimes true about international business though not as much. Just my opinion!</p>
<p>I agree with you. I've personally decided against it for other reasons, but it's not easy to get those high-powered positions, and those are the jobs that pay. Too many majors in this field don't really know what they're getting into</p>
<p>Most bail out because of the language requirement? I found it because of my love for foreign languages.</p>
<p>same here, mekrob</p>
<p>Wouldn't it be kind of obvious to people that international relations is a field that requires good language skills?</p>
<p>poolio, the only thing Tufts>JHU in is sports...lol ok that was obnauxious but if you look at big names in the senior executive jobs in government etc, a lot spent time at JHU and some went to Tufts but not as many.</p>
<p>George Washington University(called International Affairs here). The Elliot School is amazing and I recommend anyone interested to check it out.</p>
<p>Here's a link: <a href="http://gwired.gwu.edu/adm/classroom/mjrs_elliott_frm.html%5B/url%5D">http://gwired.gwu.edu/adm/classroom/mjrs_elliott_frm.html</a></p>
<p>I really enjoy it and the professors are brilliant. The internships are very good, also. GW offers one of the widest selections of courses and students must pick 2 concentrations that they are interested in to study further. It offers concentrations in:</p>
<p>FUNCTIONAL Concentrations
Comparative Political, Economic, and Social Systems
Conflict and Security
Contemporary Cultures and Societies
Global Public Health
International Development Studies
International Economics
International Environmental Resources
International Politics</p>
<p>and:</p>
<p>REGIONAL Concentrations
Africa
Asia
Europe
Latin America
Middle East
Russia and Eastern Europe </p>
<p>The Elliot School offers majors in Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies on top of an International Affairs degree. This program(if there is a ranking out there) ranks very highly in my opinion.</p>
<p>Our program at American U is very similar to that too, GWColonial! We have some general core courses for it (like world politics, cross cultural communications, macro, micro, leadership seminar) and then an area of the world concentration and a functional field (such as international development, peace and conflict studies, islamic studies, health, int. policy, etc. etc). There are also majors in "Language and Area Studies". The professors are often internationals themselves and are absolute experts in what they teach! </p>
<p>DC and AU are <em>amazing</em> in terms of the speakers and events I have been able to participate in just in the first semester I was here!!</p>