What are the best universities to study International relations?

Hey guys.

Can someone give me a break-down on which universities in the US are the best for undergraduates in the major of international relations / international studies? Thanks guys

These were published in the March/April 2007 Issue of Foreign Policy Magazine for undergrad IR programs. Surprised JHU would be so low. Oh well, start researching these, not like you're even going to apply to 20 anyway.

1. Harvard University
2. Princeton University
3. Stanford University
4. Georgetown University
5. Columbia University
6. Yale University
7. University of Chicago
8. University of California-Berkeley
9. Dartmouth College
10. George Washington University
11. American University
12. University of Michigan
13. Tufts University
14. Swarthmore College
14. University of California-San Diego
16. Cornell University
17. Brown University
18. Williams College
19. Duke University
19. Johns Hopkins University

All of those 20 are fine universities...

But the advice i normally give to prospective undergrads about US uni's, is that the overall level of professor quality at US universities is extremely high: because it's so hard to get a tenured professorship in the US, regardless of what uni in the top 50 or top 100 that you attend, it's likely that your profs got their PhD's at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, etc. and are going to be very smart people who will love it if they have motivated students...

So i'd say, for undergrad purposes, it's better to choose your initial uni options based on other considerations: location, atmosphere, personal fit, and only afterwards factor in department rankings and such...because unless, say, you doing ultra-advanced physics and need to be at Caltech, it's really not going to matter that much as an undergrad what your department ranking is...

full disclosure: i'm a volunteer admissions interviewer for Harvard...i loved going there as an undergrad, but i transfered to Harvard in my junior year from University of Virginia, and i have to say that my UVa profs were at least as good, if not better, in terms of undergrad teaching...

So, in terms of those 20 schools, UCSD (just for a random example) may have some great IR profs, but i'd imagine that your undergrad education might be better at a few dozen other schools that aren't on the list...