<p>What are the top universities for poli.sci or international relations?</p>
<p>U Chicago, Georgetown, Tufts, and?</p>
<p>Princeton (Woody Woo).</p>
<p>George Washington and American (believe it or not, American is ranked quite high… if you care about that stuff).</p>
<p>Different rankings exist for IR and political science, even though the former is a subset of the latter. For IR specifically, I would probably take UChicago off your list (excellent school, but its emphasis is on poli sci generally and not IR specifically), and add Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia.</p>
<p>Georgetown is the best.</p>
<p>It is a surprise that UChicago has a good poli sci program but not IR, because they usually go together.
I was also wondering about McGill.</p>
<p>I think W&M has a good IR program (may be biased though =P), but its major treats IR as its own field rather than a subset of polisci.</p>
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The difference is emphasis. UChicago has a great poli sci program, but its particular strengths are political theory and American government and policy. Professors usually specialize, not only into broad divisions of political science (generally speaking, American universities recognize four: political theory, American politics, comparative politics, and international relations, but there’s some variation to this) but right down into the minutiae of fields. I have a comparative politics professor who specializes in fascism and far right studies in contemporary Europe. You wouldn’t ever catch him teaching a course on political theory or American government. Some departments choose to select a well-rounded faculty that can cover a broad range of areas, some choose to become dominant powerhouses in a single field. UChicago can offer great instruction in virtually any area, but its faculty clusters around its core strengths and largely leaves IR to the schools who specialize in it.</p>
<p>For many years–there have been five schools at the top–Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Princeton, Columbia and Tufts. GW and AU come after them. Ask anyone who works in the field and you will get the same answer.</p>
<p>^ Sounds about right, but you wouldn’t include Harvard and Yale in your rankings? Of course, those two are more focused on academia than practice, but even so.</p>
<p>[Foreign</a> Policy: Inside the Ivory Tower](<a href=“http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4685&page=1]Foreign”>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4685&page=1)</p>
<p>I’m sitting next to one of the W&M Professors who wrote that^</p>
<p>Does he wish to defend it?</p>
<p>William & Mary- Madeline Albright gave it high praise.</p>
<p>W&M, Claremont McKenna, Carleton, Macalester, Bowdoin (Gov & Politics)</p>
<p>if you want to add colleges to the list as opposed to universities</p>
<p>What is the best university for IR of these three(all three are American Universities in Europe).
- St. Louis University in Madrid
- John Cabot University in Rome
- Hult International Business school in London</p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Any info on John Cabot or SLU Madrid?</p>