<p>Besides academia and government positions, in what businesses do these majors end up? If your college has alumni statistics or you know from personal experience, it would be nice for you to share =)</p>
<p>I was just about to ask this question.</p>
<p>Maybe an embassy?</p>
<p>Their parent's basement? ;)</p>
<p>(I swear, there are so many IR enthusiasts on these boards, both for undergrads and grad students, that I wonder how all of them think they are going to work for the UN one day...)</p>
<p>I wish I knew.
I wanna major in IR, but what i'll work with... Who knows? </p>
<p>Maybe I should just major in Economics instead. Sigh.</p>
<p>I want to major in IR too... but I'm not sure what will happen to me if I do, lol.</p>
<p>Law, predominantly. At the Georgetown School of Foreign Service (which is basically all IR major), an estimated 50% of graduates go on to law school within 5 years of graduation. A lot of people with IR majors end up in finance as analysts (but that's drying up). Really, given the international nature of our world today, IR majors can be found in any of a number of fields, but most of them do end up in law, the government or policy arena, or as financial analysts/consultants.</p>
<p>taking a guess, but prolly think tanks, NGOs, state, cia, basically people doing the behind-the-scenes work for the politicians</p>
<p>Very interesting ^^</p>
<p>Academia, politics ( I think obama had an IR theme in polisci)</p>
<p>Journalism, too.</p>