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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP--I graduated from Georgetown with an international affairs degree a few years ago and have worked in the field since then, so here's my take:

Georgetown and SAIS are the best two school for international affairs in DC and carry signficantly more weight, reputation-wise, than GW. That being said, unless your goal is to teach international relations at Harvard, in the real world it generally won't matter that much, especially the further you get from graduation. I know plenty of extremely successful grads from the GW int'l studies MA programs and there are very good faculty members there as well.[/quote]

If you want to stay in pure IR (in government, think tank, or policy side) in DC, then I think Elloitt places almost as well as MSFS and SAIS (if you do well, really no difference IMO).

However, if you want to leverage your degree as a career switcher or go into banking/finance or top-tier consulting then SIPA, SAIS, MSFS place a lot better from what i've seen.

Lot of SIPA, SAIS, MSFS grads in private sector finance and banking in New York from what i've seen in my extended network. Have not run into any elliott grads in finance or consulting in new york.

This could be a function of two things. SAIS is definitely more quantitively demanding than MSFS (and I think elliott and to be honest more than almost any IR program from what I know) and i think the three I mentioned bring in more private sector, ex-bankers, MBB consultants with higher frequence than Elliott to begin with.

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