Major differences of undergraduate and graduate school, confused: majors

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This is my first time hearing of a economics PhD… I don’t find myself concern with my major/ minor in economics ( and likely won’t be adding math, taking economicsas a major alone will give great knowledge/ options). I’m just concern with the political science major, or international relations/ studies major. Since I do plan to at least get my masters, I’m concern if I decided to graduate school to get my masters in international relations also, I will be basically relearning largely material from undergraduate. Though if I decided to attend graduate school for anything besides international relations ( instead maybe law, buisness, or just something else) I wouldn’t likely have that issue.
Again if I majored in political science instead, if I decided to attend grad school for international relations I will have good knowledge also in other areas… though the other situation I run into is majoring in political science ( along with economics) but attending graduate school for law, buisness ( anything within political science)… now I do not have the large knowledge of international relations.
And then the last thing I ponder on is knowing that I’m not limited to attending grad school once, and so if I did decide to major in political science ( and economics) and go onto graduate school for international relations ( to get the knowledge in that field, and possible career) but then can also from there look into other grad schools like law, buisness etc… Though it’s not likely at all for one to attend graduate school specificly for political science, as it is for international relations ( as that is a specialization).
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This is why I’m really confused on majoring in political science or international relations/ studies along with economics, it would be a largely different debate with myself if I didn’t plan to attend graduate school.</p>

<p>“Since I do plan to at least get my masters, I’m concern if I decided to graduate school to get my masters in international relations also, I will be basically relearning largely material from undergraduate.”</p>

<p>That is what I was saying earlier. The curriculums are very similar in terms of classes/types of classes and subjects. Except in IR Masters you do get to pick a specialization/the classes you want. I am using my undergrad time to learn things that I know I won’t get to learn about in depth in grad school because of the possible specialization that I pick if I do get an IR Masters. </p>

<p>You can get a good international relations background through political science if you choose the right classes. At my school I was going to major in government, and the way it was set up, I could take classes that dealt with international relations that were also counted towards the different requirements I needed for the degree.</p>

<p>Also, looks like you need to decide if you want to do law, business or international relations or what combination: law/ir, business/ir. Have you started college yet?</p>

<p>Im a senior in high school.</p>

<p>I don’t want to decided exactly yet what I want to go to graduate school for, I largely want to attend graduate school for international relations, but do not have a problem attending graduate school twice for another graduate education in law, buisness etc… Though yes, I do plan on attending graduate school for international relations, but likely may attend graduate school twice if needed ( like going back to attend law, buisness, or some other field related).</p>

<p>(Also, I don’t think you can double major in graduate school since some grad schools are only like 2 years long… besides law being 3)</p>

<p>Yeaaah you need to wait a while before you decide on anything. </p>

<p>You shouldn’t have to declare your majors in your first year anyway, at least you don’t have to at my school - you have until Junior year I think.</p>

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Right, but I thought it’s best if you know what you want to major in declare so you can start immediately with courses freshmen year ( or the system works different?). Yeah I do plan to attend graduate school for international relations, but could likely also attend a second time for law, buisness, or some related field.</p>

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<p>I know that at UCLA people planning on studying Econ in graduate school are recommended to do a Math-Econ interdepartmental major.</p>

<p>Cool, IR and polysci should be pretty similar majors. In terms of what you need to take freshman year for either major, the courses should have a huge overlap (even with econ) at most schools. I wouldn’t stress too much over picking one or the other unless it’s junior year and you still have no idea what to do. If you’re pretty sure you want a Master’s in IR or whatever, I’d check out some schools that make it easy for social science students to get a Master’s in 4 or 5 years.</p>