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Hopkins actually placed 17th, with UCSD and Brown coming in behind. Not bad, considering that other good IR colleges (i.e. GWU) didn’t place at all.</p>
<p>If you look at the percentages, you’d see that there’s not a great deal of difference between Tufts (#10) and Brown (#19). It seems fairly clear that Hopkins is not considered a top 10 undergraduate program, but it’s rather less clear exactly where it falls outside the top 10.</p>
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Phead, I can practically hear mini banging his head against the wall in frustration. Once again – the “ranking” measures school success, not program quality.</p>
<p>A program can be extremely strong but not very successful in placing graduates. In my field, Brown has quite a strong program but an absolutely pitiful track record at placing graduates into jobs. Chicago, on the other hand, has a smaller program but has produced 48% of all tenured professors in the field. Which program would you consider better?</p>
<p>Hopkins has a well-deserved reputation for having a strong IR program. It has good students and great placement, which nobody will deny. What the list suggests, however, is simply that a few other universities are better at placing students into IR positions. Let’s face it – aside from IR rankings on USNWR, what do you or any of us really know about the success of IR prospectives at most of these universities? </p>
<p>I’m sure IR at Hopkins has a long list of successful placements, but I’m equally sure other schools can match or even surpass that list. Penn’s list, for example, compares extremely favorably to JHU’s.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.jhu.edu/careers/students/explore/majors/international.html[/url]”>http://www.jhu.edu/careers/students/explore/majors/international.html</a>
<a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/college/majors/intr.html[/url]”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/college/majors/intr.html</a></p>