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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your experience with IR? Or your kid's? What college? What did you/they study within IR? Did you/they do a masters, Masters plus? Job? [/quote]

Almost every college has this major. But it's really hard to get a job now that Trump has been cutting state dept and USAID and foreign service internships, jobs, even the foreign service exam. Go outside the US like Canada, UK or Europe.[/quote]

Not really. There is a lot of variation in how colleges handle IR majors. They fall in three buckets:

1) a true IR standalone major
2) "international affairs" major - depending on the school this can be very similar to IR or quite different. Check the major requirements carefully.
3) IR track as part of poli sci major. If you want this, check how many IR courses are offered and how many profs have this specialty

We found that nearly every school has #3, many schools have #2, not too many have #1

My kid is interested in IR so we spent a lot of time looking at this. [/quote]

15:15 again. just adding the caveat that sometimes bucket #2 is called something else like global studies or international studies[/quote]

I’ve spent a lot of time researching this field. There might be differences in what individual departments focus on, but the terms relations, affairs, & studies cannot be relied on to accurately categorize them. [/quote]

To some extent yes, and I'd suggest digging in more by looking at the classes offered, the major requirements, and the number of profs in the dept. But Idid find that those with a true IR major were actually IR while those with other names (affairs, studies, etc) varied widely. [/quote]

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