Amherst vs. Georgetown SFS

mini
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:31:31 +0000

The latest issue of Foreign Policy Magazine ranked undergraduate programs in IR (including those schools that don’t have IR programs, but prepare students for IR careers.) They polled more than 1,700 academics. Georgetown was fourth of fifth. (The other two DC universities - American and GW - were also ranked.) Amherst didn’t make the top 20.

One probable reason for that is obvious - the very small number of language offerings at Amherst. If you are serious about an IR career, you need a minimum of two languages. Amherst has languages, but not that many, and not with the same breadth or depth.

Still, I think Amherst is the better school - just not for IR.