<p>My sister will be a senior in high school and says she's interested in
1. Environmental Studies or
2. Psychology, but
3. she also wants to work for the UN in the future. </p>
<p>Are there good majors to have if you want to do #3? What schools have strong programs in #1 and #2? Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>International Relations, maybe? Law?</p>
<p>There's no single track to the UN. How does she want to work for the UN? Translator? Peon? Ambassador?</p>
<p>she can always go be part of the UN's Army...haha...political science in general is a good major; any language would also be good</p>
<p>but you can pretty much work for the UN as a specialist in any field. If she wants to do environmental science, then she can work as a UN consultant for specific projects, and such.</p>
<p>She should major in accomplishing nothing.</p>
<p>BURNNNNN.</p>
<p>(IR, political science, a language, etc.)</p>
<p>^ hah, so true. </p>
<p>i wanna work for the UN as well. i'm thinking of majoring in international politics and going to law school...who knows?</p>
<p>I had the same question so, I went on to the UN web site and there they have job postings for different positions believe it or not. Most of the jobs have requirements (an example: University Degree (Bachelors or equivalent), preferably in law, political science, international relations or other disciplines related to human rights.)<br>
Here's the site:
<a href="https://jobs.un.org/Galaxy/Release3/vacancy/vacancy.aspx%5B/url%5D">https://jobs.un.org/Galaxy/Release3/vacancy/vacancy.aspx</a></p>
<p>i think your sister needs to be in college to actually know what to major in, and needs to do an internship or two before she knows what career path to settle on. MANY college students have different goals/majors than their original goals/majors coming out of high school. </p>
<p>anyway, the UN has so many different aspects to it, and she can mix interests like enviromental studies with something related that the UN (or a branch of the UN) might be working on. </p>
<p>foreign language is almost necessary though, so try to acquire one, preferably french since many international organizations recommend/require a working knowledge of it.</p>
<p>yes, listen to kfc4u</p>
<p>::She should major in accomplishing nothing.
(IR, political science, a language, etc.)::</p>
<p>I really resent that comment - yes, there are some people who major in a language or political science so they can sit on their asses and twiddle their thumbs, but that can be said of pretty much any major (yes, I know engineering majors who have no clue as well) but there are also a great deal of motivated and goal-oriented Political Science/IR majors. While it may seem odd to major in a language, most people who do go on to grad school in different subjects, just as well prepared as anyone else. What would all you science and math nerds do without political science and language-oriented people?</p>
<p>Actually, I believe that OptimusPrime's comment was referring to the UN itself, and not to a specific major. (correct me if i'm wrong optimus)</p>
<p>Yep, nobody was saying liberal arts majors accomplish nothing. Relax :-)</p>
<p>I'd enjoy working with them as well, but my target language (Danish) is too confined to be considered major. Oh well; I guess I should review my German skills instead.</p>