THEORETICAL GROUNDING AND RIGOROUS TRAINING IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
The International Relations/Political Science Department at the Geneva Graduate Institute offers study programmes combining intellectual rigour with a highly varied set of substantive specialties and courses.
The International Relations/Political Science Department is dedicated to training sophisticated researchers able to achieve excellence in our own scholarly discipline and connect it to other disciplines as well as to the professional world. We therefore concentrate on helping our students develop both fundamental analytical skills and in-depth specialisations.
The department is home to internationally recruited faculty working with a broad array of different theoretical and methodological approaches. It comprises scholars drawing on critical, feminist, pragmatist, ethnographic and aesthetic traditions, as well as scholars working with network analysis, design theory, forecasting, agent-based modelling, and rational institutionalism. Our faculty works on issues ranging from environmental governance, international security and trade to electoral politics, labour relations, expertise, gender, sensory politics and beyond. Some anchor their research in a specific area; others are generalists. We are resolutely pluralist in our approach to politics and international relations.
Studying International Relations/Political Science at the Geneva Graduate Institute will provide students with:
- Theoretical grounding and rigorous training in the fields of International Relations/Political Science;
- A highly innovative, cosmopolitan and enriching academic environment;
- Extensive access to political science faculty, whose wide range of specialisations will cover the theoretical and methodological field;
- An education at the heart of International Geneva, providing students with a wealth of opportunities to hear from international experts, attend events, and apply for internships;
- The ability to work and conduct research in a variety of settings: governments, international organisations, NGOs, businesses and academia.
BUILDING A CAREER
90% of our students find work within four months of graduation. Recent alumni have secured employment with the United Nations, European Commission, Médecins Sans Frontières, HSBC, World Economic Forum, UBS and elsewhere. Others have taken up doctoral, post-doctoral or faculty positions at Cambridge University, Harvard, Sciences Po, Oxford University, Princeton and LSE, to mention just a few.
Where our Master's programme alumni (2019-2022 cohort) are employed one year after graduation:
A cosmopolitan ENVIRONMENT
With roughly 1,000 students from 100 countries are enrolled in our various programmes, the Geneva Graduate Institute is home to students from all over the world. We are serving a very diverse community in the heart of International Geneva: nearly 20-25% of people in the Swiss city are connected to an international institution. The Institute’s close ties with the international community are reflected in the five social science disciplines taught here, all imbued with a global perspective.
