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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do all of these IR grads do? [b]Are there even enough jobs for them?[/b] It’s such a popular major these days. [/quote]

There aren’t

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who says?[/quote]

There are only a finite number of think tanks and political / gov jobs that are “good” ir jobs

Academia is cutthroat - and the private sector doesn’t really hire ir grads out of ug unless they go to a top school or grad school in something more practical

So yes there is a massive oversupply of kids who are gonna be frustrated[/quote]

[b]This is why a kid who is serious about IR will double major.[/b] I have a different IR/ Russian major than PP.  they are getting a lot of interest and cool opportunities— because of the Russian.  Very hard to find US citizens who can get a security clearance and are fluent in Chinese, Russian, Garsi, Arabic, etc. because native speakers often still have relative in their parents home country.  I recently talked to a parent who is a native Russian speaker whose fluent speaker daughter was denied da clearance— grandparents in Russia.

Another route is to do hardcore data science or econ with IR. You can be very employable in IR— plus something else that’s in demand. [/quote]

Pp you are replying to here

Yeah agreed with everything you said

however the % of kids who are serious about ir vs the total # of ir majoring kids these days is not large

Way too many unserious kids declaring/majoring in it 
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