Amherst vs. Georgetown SFS

kwu
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:53:24 +0000

I’ve seen that Foreign Policy Magazine ranking. In truth, SFS isn’t fourth, it’s first. No Ivy League elitism can take away that distinction.

Amherst has departments in Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Russian, and Spanish.
Many current students lament our lack of Italian, and I personally know a number of students who are pursuing studies in Arabic at Mount Holyoke College.

Although our Political Science department is very strong, I cannot in good conscience recommend Amherst specifically for intensely passionate about IR and a future career in IR…