Political science???

ril5384
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:05:13 +0000

I’m majoring in international and comparative politics at the American University of Paris. The professors are top notch (I have a few that have worked in NATO, for example. One current one is constantly talking about how he’s “rubbed shoulders” with some of the high-end government official… last time he was talking about Sarkozy - in France that’s probably a bigger thing than in the States, but still…). The student body is international as are the faculty. Many of the teachers have been educated at Ivies in the US or Oxbridge in England and the equivalent prestigious “name” schools around the world. I worked with UNESCO last summer and that wouldn’t have come without my connections from the school. There are a lot of workshops that come each semester with people that work in NGOs and governments (last week, I saw a seminar with a Kuwaiti official and another one with an Israeli politician and Palestinian journalist who had formed a peace coalition and came to speak to us about the Gaza situation). It’s not a cheap school but there IS financial aid and many of my friends are on full. Quite frankly, I feel it’s worth the price.