Top Ranked Colleges for International Relations Majors

Editorial team Jul 31, 2015 · 2 min read
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world-puzzleIn search of colleges and universities with strong undergraduate international relations programs?

Courtesy of Foreign Policy magazine and the College of William & Mary, we've compiled their list of top 25 programs in the United States, along with admit rate and test score data to help you locate safety, target and reach schools to add to your list.  As always, we've also included a link to each school's websites to help you explore further.

The report also calls out Chinese and Arabic as the two most important languages for aspiring international relations majors to learn, and global climate change as the most important topic to contend with over the next ten years.

Click on Continue Reading for the list, or here for the Foreign Policy article. 

Rank Institution Admit Rate (%) SAT Mid 50 ACT Mid 50 Link to School
1 Harvard University 4 1510-1580 34-36 Link
2 Princeton University 4 1500-1560 34-35 Link
3 Stanford University 4 1510-1570 34-35 Link
4 Georgetown University 12 1400-1540 31-35 Link
5 Columbia University 4 1510-1560 34-36 Link
6 University of Chicago 4 1510-1560 34-35 Link
7 Yale University 4 1480-1560 33-35 Link
8 George Washington University 47 1360-1470 30-33 Link
9 American University 54 1300-1430 29-32 Link
10 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor 16 1360-1530 31-34 Link
11 University of California - Berkeley 11 not reported not reported Link
12 Dartmouth College 6 1440-1550 32-35 Link
13 University of California - San Diego 28 not reported not reported Link
14 Tufts University 11 1480-1540 33-35 Link
15 Cornell University 8 1510-1560 33-35 Link
16 Johns Hopkins University 6 1530-1560 34-36 Link
17 MIT 5 1520-1570 34-36 Link
18 College of William and Mary 36 1400-1530 32-34 Link
19 Swarthmore College 7 1480-1550 33-35 Link
20 Williams College 7 1500-1560 34-35 Link
21 University of California - Los Angeles 9 not reported not reported Link
22 Brown University 5 1510-1560 34-35 Link
23 University of Virginia 13 1410-1520 32-35 Link
24 Ohio State University - Columbus 61 1280-1430 26-32 Link
25 Duke University 5 1500-1570 34-35 Link