last week freaking out: PSIA-SIPA dual degree vs LSE vs IHEID

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I have just received all responses from my applications: admitted by Sciences-Po PSIA/Columbia SIPA dual degree in MIA, Sciences-Po PSIA MIA IDev, LSE MPA IDev and Geneva Graduate Institute IHEID's MDEV.

 

IHEID is the only one that has offered scholarship. It asked me to answer before April 15. So, I really have to decide asap.

 

I will list shortly what I have heard of those schools, their advantages and disadvantages.

 

IHEID.

• Two year in Geneva;
• Size: tiny school (less than 1000) and big program (100 for Mdev);
• Student profile: recently graduated young people;
• Networking: Internship at IOs, faculty and similar-background colleagues;
• Expense (fee+living): 0 due to the scholarship for the first year, and around $20.000 for the second year;
• Internship opportunity: plenty and easy;
• Advantages: 2 year of IO oriented study; location, location; guaranteed first year FREE;
• Disadvantages: not well-known, seems a little bit harder to get good job immediately; has not a functioning alumni network.

 

 

PSIA-SIPA.

• First year in Paris and second year in New York;
• Size: 15-20 persons program inserted into huge schools and huge communities (500 to 1000);
• Student profile: young people for the program, young people in Paris then mostly experienced policy-makers at SIPA;
• Networking: similar-background young people at the program and at PSIA//Experienced old people at SIPA;
• Expenses (fee+living): around $25.000 for the first year and $80.000 for the second;
• Internship opportunities: very competitive at NYC;
• Advantages: bilingual; location; big name; easy to get job; better than Sciences-Po PSIA's single degree;
• Disadvantages: networking may actually be limited within the program; affordable but hard-life; someone told me that dual degree is not as solid as a single degree; unknown market reception; SIPA is too big;

 

LSE

• Two years in London;
• Size: big school and big program (100-200);
• Student profile: similar to SIPA, experienced policy-makers with some young people.
• Networking: within colleagues, similar to SIPA;
• Expenses (fee+living): around $53.000 per year;
• Internship opportunities: unknown;
• Advantages: carrier-oriented MPA; big name; easy to find job; 
• Disadvantages:  affordable but hard-life;

Previously I have ranked PSIA-SIPA>LSE>IHEID, but then IHEID's scholarship made it attractive, and rumors of dual degree being ineffective shook PSIA-SIPA's first place. I am unable to decide....

 

any help?