<p>My Cousin goes to the George Washington University, and attends the Elliot School.</p>
<p>I second Virginia, Chicago, and Claremont McKenna. Also recommend:</p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis
UCLA
Michigan
Wisconsin-Madison
Stanford
UC-Berkeley
UC-San Diego</p>
<p>Also, the University of Pennsylvania offers the PPE (politics, philosophy, and economics) major that originated at Oxbridge-<a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ppe/">http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ppe/</a></p>
<p>I don't know your geographic preferences, but I noticed you're from southern cal. so you really lucked with UCLA, Berkeley, and UCSD all in your neighborhood. Best of luck.</p>
<p>the American University of Paris has a good international and comparative politics major and it also offers the PPE program that started at Oxbridge.</p>
<p>Thanks guys, but I’m now a rising sophomore at the George Washington University XD</p>
<p>NYU
JHU
Georgetown
Princeton
UChicago</p>
<p>Bowdoin College has a well respected Government Program </p>
<p>within the gov major you can focus on int relations</p>
<p>OK Colodia, so in retrospect did you make a good choice?</p>
<p>My S is looking at the same path. He’s been accepted into GWU, BU, Brandeis, UConn and BC. We’re waiting on Gtown, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, UPenn (Huntsman), and Brown.</p>
<p>The University of Denver has a great International department. That’s where Condoleeza Rice went to.</p>
<p>Claremont Mckenna, UC Berkeley, Chicago, Rice, JHU, Michigan, Northwestern, Tufts, UCLA, Boston College</p>
<p>How are job prospects for international studies/relations majors? Im interested but I dont want to be unemployed because of my major. Any what are good programs in the midwest?</p>
<p>Many schools have great programs, but GWU and AU are hard to beat because of their prime location for job placements and internships. In fact, at GWU, IR freshman are REQUIRED to take an interview at one of the embassies.</p>
<p>AUP is a good option, too, because you’re in constant contact with people from different cultures. Even if you’re intending to go back to the States to work, learning to have a perspective on the US from outside of the US is an important skill.</p>
<p>I’m amazed by how much time you’ve had over the last week or so to post on threads old and new for the sole reason of promoting AU-Paris…</p>
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<p>Probably depends on the rigor of the program. International Relations can be very rigorous, or it can be some nonsense like “peace studies.” Most IR programs should also give you some background in economics (my school’s IR program required a minimum of 3 economics courses) which employers like to see.</p>
<p>I gotta get my school out there. It’s also a good way to procrastinate. :)</p>
<p>A lot of it comes too from my anxiety as a high school student in the college admissions process, too. Basically I wish I would have known more about this school when I was in that stage, because unfortunately, the school is still relatively unknown in many circles, and finding honest information about it is sometimes hard to come by if you haven’t already experienced it. If you look at most of the threads on collegeconfidential, for example, the posts are often times made by posters who’ve never even attended. So voila, I suppose it’s my little personal crusade to spread the word about a university I love and that I think more people would like, too, if only they had known about it.</p>
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<p>For anyone thinking about an IR program, I strongly disagree here. I don’t think that “peace studies” is nonsense. Would I major only in it? Probably not, but it certainly isn’t nonsense. World peace is unattainable, perhaps, but if we all spent a little more time in “peace studies” courses we could learn something useful. I think it is a great minor or double major.</p>
<p>Agreed! I read something by Kofi Annan recently where he was saying that the more the youth learn about peace as a possible reality, the more they will make it applicable later on. My school doesn’t have “peace studies” but they have a human rights track which I’m on. What school are you at, applicannot?</p>
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<p>I’m actually a junior. I’m looking at George Washington and American primarily. </p>
<p>Kofi Annan is my hero, basically. I completely agree. I think peace studies are important. At the end of every war there is a peace treaty, if nothing else. I think it’s a serious program that will be up-and-coming over the next few years, just like urban studies. Urban studies is another major for which people are like, ***? But in reality it is an important major for population and environmental concerns. I think some students/parents/administrators have trouble seeing into majors that do not easily translate into jobs. I had that problem for a very long time.</p>
<p>Yesterday I was looking at course listings for next semester and I realized my school offers a minor in urban studies. I never would have even given it a second look if I hadn’t read your post.</p>
<p>“I think peace studies are important. At the end of every war there is a peace treaty, if nothing else.”</p>
<p>The thing with studying the treaties, too, is that we have to learn WHAT went wrong in them, as well. I’m taking a 20th century diplomacy class that talks about it right now. Sometimes it makes me a little depressed that these men seriously could not see beyond their own countries’ interests (in general)… at least at the point we’re up to. We studied from the Treaty of Westphalia to WWI and now the causes of WWII at the moment… Sad stuff overall.</p>