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hi, another 2010 applicant outside the US. I have an IR major with 3.4 GPA, 4 years of working experience of which one year was in uzbekistan for development affairs. I have been extensively in intergovernmental meetings, reprsented my country in several fora including un, oecd, eu meetings and currently what im doing is somewhere between international economics and international development. and thats what im aiming for an ma program. my toefl score is 102, i have some good recs and currently working on gre. so, goog luck everyone!

congrats all accepted people.. could you do a favor and share your stats and WE's for those of us who'll apply in coming years??

its greatest weakness is the number of people being enrolled to the program, why they just don't make it several hundreds besides that, SFS has an excellent international development focus and has scholars like carol lancaster in that area. Its russian studies track is also pretty good when compared with other d.c. schools..

russian studies is a quite broad area and the programs are so diverse that i highly doubt they are comparable. that being said, georgetown's CERES should be among the best Russian programs.

I would say SFS, followed by SAIS, SIPA and Fletcher. I would also be very happy with Elliott or GSPIA of pittsburgh.

a remarkable strength of ford school is the opportunity to merge MPP with Michigan's Russian Studies, which is far better than those offered in much of the professional IR schools. For those who has an interest in international/public affairs and Eurasian/Russian studies, i think it should either be georgetown or ford school.