<p>I'm a rising senior in high school who has already begun looking at colleges. I'm planning on majoring in IR in college, and I've already visited a couple schools with good IR programs (GU, GWU, UR, UVA, Tufts). I was recently looking at Pitt and I found that they offer a major in International and Area Studies through their honors college. However, the degree offered is a BPhil... is this program any good? Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer me some help on this.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about it, but I’m pretty sure that you have to double major for that program; ie you can’t just do global studies.</p>
<p>Yeah, it says that on their [url=<a href=“http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/bphil/bphil-ias.html]website[/url”>http://www.honorscollege.pitt.edu/bphil/bphil-ias.html]website[/url</a>], but I was wondering more specifically if anyone knew if it was a good program or not. Thanks for your help, though.</p>
<p>It is a fairly well respected program and they offer graduate work as well. The BPhil is the degree the honors college confers if you complete its requirements; it is run differently than many other honors programs. As the earlier post stated, many certificate programs are offered as are numerous languages and area studies majors. Pitt also has a global community in the dorms for freshmen.</p>