<p>Meh. Rankings aren’t everything. Tufts doesn’t really have many extremely visible, high-profile professors for IR, but they treat us very well. I’ve never had a poli sci or IR prof who didn’t know my name. Last summer one of my profs hired me as a research assistant for the book he was writing; during the course of the summer I formulated some questions of my own, and with his guidance I did original research, wrote up my results, and got them published.
I seriously doubt Robert Keohane or Kenneth Waltz are going to go that far for their students. If they’ve even met their students, that is.</p>