<p>Hi CCers, </p>
<p>I've been researching these colleges for International Relations major and since I don't have a Guidance Counselor (I'm in Singapore), I'm really confused about these colleges. I do have Georgetown, Tufts, Harvard, Princeton in mind because they're really well known. I've heard Denver and Syracuse have strong faculties in polsci but I'm not sure. Any suggestions of other top colleges for IR?</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>Gourman rankings for undergraduate International Relations:</p>
<p>Tufts
Princeton
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
U Penn
Harvard
Cornell
U Wisconsin Madison
MIT
Stanford
UVA
Notre Dame
US Air Force Acad
US Military Acad
Claremont McKenna</p>
<p>If you’re willing to go to Scotland, the University of St Andrews.</p>
<p>+1 for St Andrews. Apparently it’s the ebst in Europe at IR</p>
<p>Foreign Policy Magazine recently ranked The Ohio State University - Columbus as the 15th best Ph.D. program in the world for the study of international relations while noting Professor Alexander Wendt as the third most influential scholar of international relations in the world.</p>
<p>I doubt St Andrews is the best school in Europe for IR. Sciences Po likely and there is a graduate program in geneva cannot remember the name. They might have an undergrad program</p>
<p>Madeline Albright says William & Mary has the best IR dept. Also, they have a joint degree with St Andrews. 2 for 1 deal!</p>
<p>Middlebury has great international studies and international politics and economics programs (as well as, of course, their amazing language departmnents). The ranking above seems to focus on the universities but several liberal arts colleges are also excellent.</p>
<p>That’s a good list - Tufts, JHU, and Georgetown would probably be my top 3 for IR, but you can’t go wrong with any of them. Also add American and George Washington to the list. Both are in DC and have really strong IR programs.</p>
<p>Also GWU and American are much less selective than the others. It’s a fantastic IR program for those students without 4.0/2400</p>
<p>I’m not saying Secretary Albright didn’t say William and Mary is #1 and it is an excellent school in general but I’d only be surprised because she has been affiliated Georgetown for most of her years outside of government service. </p>
<p>Would be curious to know where and when she said it. And again, this isn’t meant as any disparagement of William and Mary - had relatives who went there and loved it. Just kind of surprised if Secretary Albright talked about their IR program.</p>
<p>^ Ouch to Georgetown considering the fact that she teaches there. But I never knew William and Mary had an IR dept. And even then their joint program with St Andrews is a liberal arts one</p>
<p>Emory
Middlebury
Pomona</p>
<p>You have a lot of good choices listed for you.</p>
<p>I’ve actually had a similar question just posted here:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1045538-top-conservative-poli-sci-faculties.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1045538-top-conservative-poli-sci-faculties.html</a>
describing a bit more of where i’m at</p>
<p>But sorry to hijack, if deemed so… do any of these poli sci dep. have relatively conservative faculties?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>William & Mary has produced six Rhodes Scholars since 1989 and 60 students have won Fulbright Scholarships, Truman, and Goldwater fellowships since 2000.[33] According to the Institute of International Education, William & Mary enjoys the highest Fulbright Scholarship acceptance rate (46%) of any major research university in America.[34] William & Mary offers exchange programs with 15 foreign schools, drawing more than 12% of its undergraduates into these programs, and receives U.S. State Department grants to further expand its foreign exchange programs.[35] Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has called W&M International Studies Department “perhaps the finest in the nation.”[36]</p>
<p>From someone in the field, I ca tell you that, for many years, five schools have been held in the highest regard: Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Princeton, Columbia and Tufts. Below those five are Harvard, George Washington and American U.</p>
<p>I don’t know what Albright said, but she was trained at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown. Sometimes people say the darndest things. Woodrow Wilson, who did his graduate work at Hopkins (still the only president with a PhD)’ once called Johns Hopkins the best place to study in America. Since he was president of Princeton,that didn’t sit well with some folks.</p>
<p>My major was not IR nor did I attend W&M but it is a fact that Madeleine Albright made that statement and she is WELL familiar with W&M. So, given that she was educated (trained) at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown, all the more reason to value her assessment! That said, I’m sure that there are more than a few institutions of higher learning that are able to produce IR students who are very well prepared for a career in same. And don’t forget, W&M is a VERY small, uber selective “public Ivy”…with appx. 5000 students. :)</p>
<p>If you are a female, Mt. Holyoke College (MA).</p>
<p>Re: Post #16:
“I don’t know what Albright said, but she was trained at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown.”</p>
<p>Actually, Albright did her bachelor’s degree at Wellesley.
Later, she took Russian classes at Hofstra.
Still later, she began studying international relations and continued studying Russian at the SAIS at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC, but apparently didn’t finish the program.
She earned a certificate in Russian, a Masters of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia. It’s not entirely clear whether her master’s and doctorate were through the political science dept. or the School of International & Public Affairs.</p>
<p>Clarification on Ms. Albrights pedigree:
Awarded a B.A. from Wellesley College with honors in Political Science, she studied at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, received a Certificate from the Russian Institute at Columbia University, and her Masters and Doctorate from Columbia University’s Department of Public Law and Government.</p>