<p>Only considering IR major, what college would you choose?</p>
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<p>I know JHU has one of the best IR
I also heard Columbia has good IR (but does not have major ?)
I dont really understand it.
help me out
please</p>
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I also heard Columbia has good IR (but does not have major ?)
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<p>Correct. You'd major in political science and take IR-type courses as electives.</p>
<p>so.. where would you choose?
just give me opinions. THanks...
please just consider IR programs.</p>
<p>If you're obsessed with international relations and if it's, in its infinitesmal specificity, all you ever want to study, hold off on Columbia until perhaps grad school. The Core would otherwise frustrate your singular ambitions. </p>
<p>If, however, you view a comprehensive liberal arts education as integral to your pursuit of IR, then absolutely consider Columbia. I mean, it's one thing to study the internal organization of the UN; it's quite another to be able to intelligently discuss Don Quixote with Spanish diplomats or Dostoevsky with Russians (or art or music from the aforementioned places and others) as well as learn about the UN. Not that you couldn't learn these things at JHU, but Columbia will force you to broaden your cultural and disciplinary horizons. Honestly, international relations are exactly that, relations. There's a social component of Columbia as a school with more cosmopolitan flavor than JHU (which strikes me as slightly more bland and American) that I think is indispensible in diplomacy. Conduct during nightlife and intelligent cultural conversation are not things an exclusive IR education can provide.</p>
<p>thank you so much</p>