Wellesley vs. NYU?!?

NYU2013
Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:08:20 +0000

(1) At NYU, International Relations is an honors major. You have to apply during your sophomore year after having completed certain pre-reqs and you must have a minimum 3.65 GPA in both your pre-reqs and overall.

(2) Don’t discredit NYU’s academics. NYU is #12 in the country for economics among research universities; #17 for political science; #10 in international politics; #6 for political methodology.

NYU’s politics department specializes in political methodology because Bruce Beuno De Mesquita and Steven Brams sit on the faculty - two of the world’s leading political methodologists. A large percentage of your classes, regardless of whether or not they are in American politics, International Politics, Public Policy, etc. will contain political methodology because of this.

While it’s unfair to use graduate programs to examine academics, I think this should attest to the fact that the faculty at NYU is by no means sub-par compared to that of Wellesley.