Masters Help and Advice

[HemustBeMagic]

Hi all thanks so much for reading this.

 

I'm graduating next year and highly interested in an International Affairs/Relations Masters. A lot of programs that interest me allow me to focus on or take a good amount of classes dealing with human rights, human condition, or security. Down the road I either want to get my PhD in social psychology and work on a more academic side of the correlation between war and human behavior, or work in private sector or an NGO after my masters. If I could have the world I'd get a mph and a masters in international relations.

 

My catch is this. I want to go into a masters program after undergrad. I know, work experience after UG is loved for masters programs and if worse comes to worse I will do that, but going straight is best for me as a person so it would be the ideal situation. I have internship experience but other than that I dont have much experience. My stats are below.

 

If you could steer me in the right direction of some programs I should be looking at, or some schools that I should be considering based on my stats and what I told you that would be great. Funding for a maters is hard to come by, I know, so any help with funding chances, outside sources, or schools that give funding would be great. PS should i be applying to more schools knowing my stats?

 

• Medium Sized Research School
• African American Male
• 9 programs, ideally
• UGA: 3.3 (Major GPA 3.8),
• Last 60 credits: 3.88 GPA
• GRE: V 161 Q 165 A 5.0
• Spanish up to Senior Level
• Internship with Human Rights First, & The Victory Fund (an LGBT political campaign assistance organization). and working with war refugees in DC
• 3 semesters and 1 summer of neuroscience research (yielded contribution to a paper)
• 1 summer in a social psychology lab with 2 of my ideas being used for projects that are currently ongoing
• 1 poster presentation
• Major: Global Studies with a focus on Development Health and Sustainability
• Summer Abroad in France working with AmFAR (Foundation for Aids Research)*
• Psychology Minor
• 2 thesis papers writen in my major
• LoRs from Neuroscience lab, social psychology lab Professor and Human Rights First, And The Victory Fund
• Macro and Micro both completed with As

* this is not a promise but it would happen the summer between undergrad and grad school