Talk:USC School of International Relations

Big ups and a question.
First of all, as a proud grad I'm happy to see someone created this article (I was busy pumping up the one on my law school); secondly, after glancing at the general article on IR (and thinking back to the comments made in USC literature when I attended), isn't USC's school the first in the USA and 3rd overall (with the first two being Aberyswth and LSE)? Would it be a good idea to integrate that idea into the article? I leave that up to those who've taken responsibility over this article as I'm just impressed its where it is. --Bobak 17:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC)


 * This page is horribly biased and seemingly without merit. A search of ever major ranking source places USC fairly low. Overall for Political Science at 54th by US News, not even ranked for International Relations by the same publication. Meanwhile for ... "November/December 2005 issue of Foreign Policy (FP) magazine. One of study's questions asked: 'What do you consider the top five terminal masters programs in international relations for students looking to pursue a policy career?" From the study, 65% of respondents named Johns Hopkins University as being one of the top five programs. SAIS received the most votes, followed by Georgetown (Walsh), Harvard (Kennedy), Tufts (Fletcher), and Columbia (SIPA), respectively." This seems to be another article in the long tradition of USC boosterism on wikipedia - and needs to be watched.
 * Says the IP from the University of Chicago. But I realize you might be confused by the difference between a Poli Sci dept and the separate SIR.  With that said, your edit on the article page was completely sensible. --Bobak (talk) 21:49, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

1) Article contains factual errors. For one, Laurie Brand is no longer the chair 2) There is not IR PhD any more, it has been replaced by joint PolSci/SIR PhD. 3) Masters program has been discontinued as well (except for foreign students admitted through Muskie program) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.180.1.88 (talk) 07:11, 29 September 2011 (UTC)