Stanford vs Wharton!!

lolabelle
Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:29:32 +0000

According to this year’s Gourman Report, the best undergraduate programs in International Relations are, in order:

Tufts
Princeton
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
U Penn
Harvard
Cornell
U Wisconsin Madison
MIT
Stanford
UVA
Notre Dame
US Air Force Acad
US Military Acad
Claremont McKenna



(FYI: The Gourman Report states that its ratings are based on “extensive reseach” into the following criteria:


auspices, control, and organization of the institution
numbers of educational programs offered and degrees conferred (with additional attention to “sub-fields” available to students within a particular discipline
age (experience level) of the institution and the individual discipline or program and division
faculty, including qualifications, experience, intellectual interests, attainments, and professional productivity (including research)
students, including quality of scholastic work and records of graduates both in graduate study and in practice
basis of and requirements for admission of students (overall and by individual discipline)
number of students enrolled (overall and for each discipline)
curriculum and curricular content of the program or discipline and division
standards and quality of instruction (including teaching loads)
quality of administration, including attitudes and policy towards teaching, research and scholarly production in each discipline, and administration research
quality and availability of non-departmental areas such as counseling and career placement services
quality of physical plant devoted to undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels
finances, including budgets, investments, expenditures and sources of income for both public and private institutions
library, including number of volumes, appropriateness of materials to individual disciplines and accessibility of materials
computer facility sufficient to support current research activities for both faculty and students
sufficient funding for research equipment and infrastructure
number of teaching and research assistantships
academic-athletic balance


The weight given to each criterion above varies by discipline. )
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