Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Institution

SAIS is located on Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row, just off of Dupont Circle and a stone's throw away from The Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Institute for International Economics. The school is regarded as a major center of political debate as it served as a base for a number of prominent political scientists. Among them are World Bank President and former Dean Paul Wolfowitz, political economy scholar Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami.

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Massachusetts Avenue - Embassy Row - Dupont Circle - The Brookings Institution - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Institute for International Economics - World Bank - Paul Wolfowitz - Francis Fukuyama - National Security Advisor - Zbigniew Brzezinski - Fouad Ajami

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SAIS has nearly 550 full-time students in Washington, D.C., 180 full-time students in Bologna, Italy and about 100 full-time students in Nanjing, China. Of these, 60% come from the United States and 40% from more than 66 other countries. Around 50% are women and 22% are U.S. minority groups. The SAIS Bologna Center is the only full-time international relations program in Europe that operates under the American system and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, which teaches all of its courses in Chinese, is jointly administered by SAIS and Nanjing University. Courses are taught in over 14 research departments, including International Economics, International Relations, Global Theory & History, International Law, Strategic studies, Conflict management, International Policy (formerly Energy, Environment, Science & Technology (EEST)), International Development, African studies, American foreign policy, Asian studies, China Studies, Japan Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, South Asia Studies, European Studies, Middle East Studies, Russian & Eurasian Studies, Western Hemisphere Studies.

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Bologna - Nanjing - United States - International relations - Chinese - Nanjing University - Economics - International Law - Strategic studies - Conflict management - International Development - African studies - American foreign policy - Asian studies - China - Japan - Southeast Asia - South Asia - Middle East - Russia - Eurasian - Western Hemisphere

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Around 250 students graduate from SAIS's Washington, DC campus each year from the two-year master of arts program in international relations and international economics. SAIS also maintains formal joint-degree programs with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Stanford Law School, and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University.

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Master of arts - International relations - Economics - Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania - Johns Hopkins - Bloomberg School of Public Health - Stanford Law School - Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs - Syracuse University

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Since 1990, SAIS has been one of only two non-law schools in the United States to participate in the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Although SAIS students obviously enter the competition with a comparative disadvantage (all of those against whom they must compete have at least a year of law school), they have done very well. Twice, SAIS has placed second overall out of 12 schools and advanced to the "final four" in its region. In head-to-head competitions, SAIS has defeated law schools such as the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

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Philip C. Jessup - University of Virginia - University of Maryland, Baltimore

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The College of William & Mary recently completed an intensive study (August 2005) examining graduate international relations programs in the United States, interviewing over 1,000 professionals in the field. One of their 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 their top choice, followed by Georgetown University, Harvard University, Tufts University, and Columbia University, respectively. Source: http://mjtier.people.wm.edu/intlpolitics/teaching/TRIP%20summary%20Aug%2017.pdf

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College of William & Mary - Johns Hopkins University - Georgetown University - Harvard University - Tufts University - Columbia University

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