<p>Here is a Johns Hopkins IR Professor on this matter:</p>
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The undergraduate International Studies program at Hopkins is the 19th <a href=“dead%20last,%20w%20t%20f”>B</a> ** best in the country, according to a study published in the influential Foreign Policy magazine’s March/April issue. </p>
<p>It was the first time that Foreign Policy has ranked undergraduate international relations (IR) programs.The study, conducted by faculty at the College of William & Mary, polled nearly 1,200 international-relations scholars and professors across the United States, comprising over 41 percent of the field. </p>
<p>The respondents were asked which five undergraduate programs they considered to be the best . In a listing of the top 20 undergraduate programs, </p>
<p>While it is commonplace to attack studies that don’t place a program in a positive light, in this case the study warrants an explanation, he said. “I participated in the survey myself , and the undergraduate program question was only one of a much broader 50-question survey . Considering that some of the schools ranked above us in the study don’t even have specific International Relations programs , I don’t think many of those surveyed had a good sense of the best programs. Most knew the graduate schools better ,” David said.</p>
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<p>I am not sure how Michigan could be ranked 12th in International Relations when the university does not have such a department and does not offer such a major!</p>
<p>Same goes for Harvard, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Yale, Dartmouth, UMichigan, Swarthmore, UCSD, Cornell, Williams, Duke. They each do not offer IR BA/BS degrees and not have a dedicated IR faculty or staff, not do they have IR departments.</p>