<p>Because I looked for it on the website but it wasn't listed, however, foreign policy magazine ranks it as a top-10 undergraduate IR program. can anyone explain?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>No specific international relations major, but you can:
-major in political science and take courses in IR
-look into the IAS department and explore: PEIS, PACS, Asian Studies (AS)
Development Studies (DS), Latin American Studies (LAS), Middle East Studies (MES), or a minor in European studies</p>
<p>Those are some off them</p>
<p>Or you can apply to Stanford and major in IR.</p>
<p>Different schools have different emphasis in their fields. So while Stanford may have an IR major, the focus of the department may be different than Cal's approach (especially with the multidisciplinary majors of International Political Economy, formerly Political Economy of Industrial Society [PEIS]; Peace and Conflict Studies [PACS]; Development Studies, etc.).</p>
<p>Also note that IR is a very specific and technical term. Some get very particular about what constitutes IR study, and what doesn't.</p>
<p>Also, those rankings may be regarding the graduate programs of the IR departments.</p>
<p>actually his/her best bet would be to major in ISF and create their own international relations major.</p>
<p>I wanted to major in IR, and I was going to go to UCLA, but then I decided to do Cal instead and do the interdisciplinary studies and just make my own international relations/economics major thing.</p>