You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johns Hopkins University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on International Relations Major in Maryland. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 15 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s international relations students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.