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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it's not peers with those schools?

Hopkins is overranked because of federal funding for its medical research and Applied Physics Lab. While I'm sure the medical research has some carryover for undergrad students in biological sciences, it doesn't do much for anything outside of those subjects. The APL is based a 30 minutes drive off campus so it's not of much use to physics/engineering undergrad students.

The Ivies are Ivies, and therefore recognized globally. Duke is well-recognized nationally in every industry due to it's breadth of competencies and also basketball. Hopkins is well recognized nationally but primarily as a pre-med school.[/quote]

How could you live in this area and be totally ignorant of SAIS?  [/quote]
SAIS is a graduate school and based in DC, again not very relevant to undergrads. [/quote]

Exactly. Hopkins' best to offer in terms of academics are not very relevant to undergrads. Be it medical school or SAIS. The political science department, which is actually based in Baltimore, is separate from SAIS and the rankings are in the 40s, which is pretty low for a school of its caliber. Definitely not a top-tier department. [/quote]

Again, you reveal you have no clue what you are talking about.  International studies is a different major than poly sci.  And here’s the rankings.  https://www.collegefactual.com/majors/social-sciences/international-relations-national-security/rankings/top-ranked/[/quote]

Dear, I absolutely know what I am talking about. [b]Foreign Policy[/b]'s rankings on IR programs - https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/20/top-fifty-schools-international-relations-foreign-policy/

Top 5 undergrad IR programs

Harvard 
Princeton
Stanford 
Georgetown
Columbia

and JHU at #15.

Top 5 grad IR programs (Master's degree)

Georgetown
Harvard
[b]JHU[/b]
Princeton 
Columbia

Top 5 grad IR programs

Havard
Princeton
Stanford
Columbia 
Chicago

JHU again at #16

Grad and undergrad, two very different things. Still, my point stands. What is offered at the Homewood campus is very different from its other campuses. There is a big disconnect between grad and undergrad programs at JHU, and it's not uncommon to JHU. Many grad-heavy institutions have a similar problem. Simple as that.[/quote]

The ranking I cited  was obviously different but even using the worst one you could find, undergrad IR at Hopkins is T15.  Sorry it is so difficult for you to ever acknowledge you are wrong.[/quote]
Not PP.

T15 in the US is not "one of the leading centers in the world". Again for someone choosing between say Georgetown, Hopkins and Harvard for foreign affairs, it's obvious that attending a school that has a world-renowned foreign affairs school right on campus is better than one where it's more than an hour away. [/quote]

+1. SAIS really feels like a world of its own, even feels like a separate school in a sense, and very little, almost no interaction between grad and undergrad programs because they are so far away. And I'm saying this having visited both SAIS and Homewood multiple times and know many people on and off campus. Huge disconnection between Homewood and DC/Bologna/Nanjing campuses. [/quote]

As someone who was actually an undergrad at Hopkins and an international studies major (and not just been on both campuses a few times, whatever that means), that isn’t true for all the reasons in my last post.[/quote]

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