<p>What are the best undergraduate political science, international relations, arabic, and european studies programs in the US and abroad?</p>
<p>bump .</p>
<p>hm..I am going to be doing the same..except not Arabic but Geography...so I will just give you what I have found so far...</p>
<p>USA</p>
<p>HYPS
big publics (Mich, OSU, Wisconsin, Berkeley, UCLA etc.)
most of the universities in the US give great Poli Sci courses, so it is not that big of a deal</p>
<p>UK</p>
<p>Cambridge
Oxford
Edinburgh (Great for Arabic too...see Politics & Arabic joint honours course)
St. Andrews
LSE</p>
<p>Sciences Po in France is also great for Poli Sci</p>
<p>Undergrad is, as Smash pointed out, the usual suspects:</p>
<p>HYPS (and to an extent MIT)
top publics (don't forget UCSD, which is actually better than UCLA for poli sci and IR)
and a few others, including the DC schools (Georgetown in particular).</p>
<p>Abroad</p>
<p>Oxbridge
LSE
Edinburgh
St. Andrews</p>
<p>Now if we're talking grad, it gets interesting...MIT all of a sudden gets really quite good, and Cal Tech also gets pretty good.</p>
<p>Undergrad, however, matters a good deal less. Brown and Dartmouth may not have the highest ranked poli sci departments in the country, but I'd argue that you'll get a better education there than at OSU despite OSU's great faculty.</p>
<p>Three American universities offer all those majors, and I'd say they're pretty good for those fields:</p>
<p>George Washington
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Washington</p>
<p>"Washington" is present in all three...how interesting...</p>
<p>as always HPYS will give you amazing oppurtunities. However, look into georgetown</p>
<p>Could someone explain more about Sciences Po?</p>
<p>What about La Sorbonne?</p>
<p>Sciences Po is a university in France focused entirely on the Study of Political Sciences (hence, Science Po, from Sciences Politiques)...most of the best politicians in France graduated from there. Not too familiar with La Sorbonne, though.</p>
<p>Are there a lot of Americans there?</p>
<p>Georgetown. George Washington. If it has any mixture of "George" and "Washington", its probably good for any of these, just like someone pointed out.</p>
<p>is there any sort of formal list or ranking of undergrad political science programs?</p>
<p>bump.......</p>
<p>There's Gourman, but beware...</p>
<p>American University is amazing for IR.</p>
<p>it is in DC.</p>
<p>If you are planning on pursuing a graduate degree in IR your foreign language skills, test scores(gre), and work experience will be more important than the school you go to. I would look at Middlebury.</p>
<p>I personally wouldn't go abroad for a major like IR or Poli Sci...granted, La Sorbonne and Oxford are amazing schools, but they make students focus on just one area of study. Personally, for a social sciences major I think it's better to study a variety of subject areas...try Wake Forest for IR too</p>
<p>For all these majors (IR, poli sci, arabic)
would you choose
UWisconsin or Ohio State ? and why ?</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins University</p>
<p>This is one of my older posts in another IR thread. Hope it helps!</p>
<p>It's rather to safe to say that Hopkins has one of the best IR programs in the country (as rated by Foreign Affairs journal) So, if you want to talk reputation, we are it. When you talk to people in politics and mention JHU, they immediately think of all of the big names here at JHU (Prof. David, Prof. Deudeney, Prof. Blyth, Prof. Tsai, etc.) and of all the SAIS professors in DC (Prof. Mandelbaum, Prof. Fuikuyama, etc.). I would encourage you to go to the department web pages and check out the different professors' recent publications. These guys are doing some amazing stuff!</p>
<p>As for careers, you couldn't ask for a better sampling. Law school (over 95% of Hopkins grads applying to law school get in), non-governmental organizations (UN? Amnesty international? Oxfam?), finance (World bank? Paul Wolfowitz - now the head of the World Bank - was a Hopkins prof., futures?, research?). </p>
<p>As for grad school, JHU has its own School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C. Frequent guests at SAIS include...</p>
<p>-Senator John Kerry
-Senator Chuck Hagel
-Lt. General David Petraeus (commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center)
-CBS Journalist Bob Schieffer
-U.K. Defense Minister Des Browne
-Pakistani Ambassador Mahmud Ali Durrani
-Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill
-N.Y. Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner
and many many more....</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins also has two separate campuses for International Studies worldwide in: Nanjing, China, and Bologna, Italy. Hopkins students are always welcome to complete their studies at the two international campuses.</p>
<p>As for the university in general, Johns Hopkins is one of the most prestigious colleges nationwide. It has a VERY well-respected reputation especially in the fields of medicine and international studies. </p>
<p>Lastly, some fast facts about JHU:
Enrolled undergraduates: 4,417
Enrolled graduate students: 1,608
Student/Faculty ratio: 9:1
More than 67% of classes are "29 or less" students
Applicants: 13,863
Admitted: 3,698
Admit rate: 27% </p>
<p>Nationwide, JHU's undergrad program is among the top 20, and its Grad IR program ranks 2ND place right after Harvard. International studies is also the most popular major at Johns Hopkins (yes, even more influencial than our famous medicine programs like BME).</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>i have also heard many great things about JHU. some people are surprised when they hear about the great IR program there--but truly, it is supposed to be phenomenal.</p>
<p>as for foreign schools, i've also heard that mcgill is okay--but i don't know if they offer a major in IR.</p>
<p>With all due respect to Mr. ***uyama...nah...I won't go there. :p</p>