The most generally agreed upon and only widely-followed rankings place Yale's Model UN team 4th, rather than 1st as this article states. Yale has an excellent MUN team and many great, smart kids- however, the arbitrary, descriptive analysis of an academic survey that this article offers could use some work.

http://bestdelegate.com/fall-2011-college-model-un-rankings-top-1-5/

The campus international relations organization at GU is the Georgetown International Relations Club, rather than the Georgetown International Relations Council as stated above.

So there's no mention of American's brand new School of International Service building? Nor a mention that frequent FP contributor James Goldgeier is the new Dean? There are also a number of well-known experts that are faculty at SIS including Amitav Acharya and David Bosco (another FP contributor). There are probably more in the Peace and Conflict Resolution program, but that's a no-go zone for me.

Moreover, AU's new International Security program far exceeds the UG equivalents at GWU and Georgetown. Our study of violence, war and conflict areas are infinitely more dense than at GW, in particular. As for Georgetown, people are obsessed with its reputation, but its really becoming the lesser school in DC.

There is no shortage of distinguished Faculty at AU and while its "active" student body is certainly a perk, the academic rigor and ongoing program development outweigh SIS' large hipster population camping at K Street.

Obviously I went to AU, but I really disagree with the rankings.

Here's how it should have gone:

1. Woody Woo
2. Kennedy School
3. Stanford
4. SFS
5. Columbia
6. AU and GW (tie - let's be honest, everyone knows this is true)
7. Chicago
8. Tufts
9. Korbel
10. Syracuse

Yale and Dartmouth on the list? Please.

Rank Graduate Programs, that's more telling anyway.

Tufts' absence makes sense because it's a small liberal arts school at the undergraduate level and usually gets overlooked in national polls, but no Johns Hopkins is surprising.

This just reads like a list from US News and World Report, which makes sense because all the survey seems to have done is ask professors and some practitioners what they thought of the undergraduate programs rather than attempt an actual analysis of the the rigor and quality of the programs themselves. The universities with the most famous, wealthiest, and DC-centric undergraduate schools are naturally going to be on top because those are the first ones that come to people's minds when you ask about anything undergraduate in any survey. (Except the DC-centric part is specific to IR, obviously.) The results could have been almost the same if the survey ranked undergraduate English programs.

It's a survey of reputation, not rigor or quality, and should not be misrepresented.

Where would you rank University of Toronto and/or other schools that are outside of the United States? Its a disappointment that only American universities were considered for this list.

This survey asked a large number of professors who know nothing about the content of undergraduate programs beyond which scholars teach at the school to rank them. An undergraduate program's quality is very different from that of a PhD program-- the latter's job is to produce professors, and the former's is to provide an education. If you actually want to rank a specific IR program and not just regurgitate school reputation or a departmental roster, you'd need to examine things like course selection, faculty teaching, opportunities for independent research, internship support, student organizations, career outcomes, IR-related alumni networks, or even average SAT scores to gauge student competitiveness.

So this survey is even more worthless than the master's program one, which is almost a reproduction of common notions of where to go for an IR career, except for the failure to distinguish between full and partial members of APSIA.

FP would do well to explain at the start of the article what exactly the TRIP survey measures in this regard-- the blurbs that mention student groups and such only support the illusion that actual research supports this roster.

I want a redo on my schooling, after having looked at these schools, I wish I would have gone there...they seem like they offer some serious opportunities to students...too bad I did not know how to calculategpa but I was too busy eatin on dulse...better luck next time for me...life must go on.

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blessy

Thank you for the good share. The ideas were so brilliant. Never thought I would find some good ideas from here.

blessy

I always wonder whether the Schools' programs are what make their foreign studies programs so great, or is it due to a school's significant amount of foreign students that are at the school. With the latter, students learn not only learn inside the classroom, but interact will tons of foreign students throughout the day. Especially when shopping at Miami retail shopping centers, one gets to interact with the Hispanic cultures on a daily basis

As a former University of Houston student, you are crazy for leaving it off the list!

Surprisingly Stanford is more expensive than Harvard but drops to number three placement. Condoleeza is probably not happy with these rankings. I had money riding on Princeton. I enjoyed reading how uch they all cost. Regards, VChalets

What a surprise to learn that all the most prestigious schools have the best programs! I guess that means that if you go anywhere else, you might as well forget about it. Perhaps it's simply the stupid bias of someone who teaches at a small liberal arts college but I have seen little evidence from watching the course of US foreign policy over the past 20 years for the proposition that going to the finest schools produces the finest foreign policy. This is insular beltway thinking at its worst. This is all academic politics. You produce not a shred of evidence that these programs actually provide one with the tools for developing a more insightful view of the world.. Its like the Oscars--fun, but everyone knows lot of great movies and performances get passed over each year because they didn't come out at the right time. Likewise, the student who comes out of a Dickinson or Kenyon or any number of other good schools who then goes on to work overseas for a few years for an NGO, the PC, or something like that, master a language on the ground, and then go to a good MIR program. Few things are more annoying than the kind of know-it-alls who to the Harvard-SAIS route and make little effort to actually understand the rest of the world on the ground.

Good food for thought here. Thanks, it's been very interesting.
femmes russes

Not once did I say anything about Jews. It is neo-con Israel who is creating the problems.

Israel is the real terrorists. settlements in the West Bank is untenable, and evacuating settlements there would help Israel hold on to land within Israel itself.

Where would you rank University of Toronto and/or other schools that are outside of the United States? Its a disappointment that only American universities were considered for this list.

Compensation for whiplash

This is a bit interesting
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