Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
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The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS ) is a graduate school of international politics and economics from Johns Hopkins University. It has its headquarters on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, DC and has a second campus in Bologna, as well as a branch office in Nanjing, China.
The SAIS is a facility for study and research in the field of International Relations. She is a graduate school that only the master and Ph.D. degrees gives. It is a center of political discourse in the U.S. and in researching her and teach political scientists, economists and historians.
The majority of students at SAIS is the two-year Master of Arts ( MA) in International Relations and International Economics. The students are trained in an interdisciplinary study in areas such as political science, economics, finance, history and international law, though SAIS puts an emphasis on the business training and each student has individual priorities. Some of the students spend the first year of study at the SAIS Bologna Center in Bologna, Italy and exchanged for the second year to Washington. Every year, starting about 150 students studying at the SAIS, selected from over 1800 applicants ( 2009).
History
The School of Advanced International Studies was founded in 1943 by Paul H. Nitze and Christian Herter in Washington, DC founded. 1950 was affiliated SAIS Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. SAIS Bologna Center opened in 1955, the Bologna, Italy, and thus created the first American graduate institution in Europe. 1963 was the move to the present building on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, DC instead. The school is therefore in the immediate vicinity of embassies, research institutions, international organizations and businesses. In 1986, the Hopkins -Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China opened a third location of SAIS. Dean of SAIS since 2002, Jessica Einhorn, the successor of Paul Wolfowitz on this item is.
Courses of Study
The SAIS award three different degrees:
- The Master of Arts in International Relations and International Economics (MA). This two-year program consists of two different priorities, one of which is compulsory International Economics. The second focus is selected from regional and functional wells in the area of international studies and politics. 80 percent of the students studying in the SAIS MA The program. There is also the option to specialize in the areas of Quantitative Methods and Economic Theory, International Finance and Development Economics.
- The one-year Master of International Public Policy ( MIPP ). Therein professionals are trained to at least nine years of professional experience in International Relations and Economics fields.
- The Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D. ) is a multi-year doctoral program, which Ph.D. entitled is completed.
There is also a double degree partnerships with other graduate schools within the United States, such as with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, with Stanford University Law School, or Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Since April 2011, there is also a double degree program with the business school INSEAD, under which students can acquire degrees from both institutions in a reduced time.
Academic rankings
The SAIS is considered the leading institution of its kind in the United States. Foreign Policy magazine has listed them in its global ranking in 2006 on the first place of all master's degree programs in the field of International Relations, followed by Georgetown University, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and the Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School.
Known graduates
Well-known graduates include Madeleine Albright, Niels Annen, Timothy Geithner, Josef Joffe, Geir Haarde, Andreas Nick, Jody Williams, Gerold of Braunmühl and Bandar bin Sultan. By 2009, more than 130 graduates of SAIS were appointed ambassadors, including the German Ambassador in Oman, Angelika Renate Storz Chakarji, and the German Ambassador to Indonesia Norbert Baas.