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International Relations Master’s Degree Program

Explore the complexities of foreign affairs and gain a global perspective.

Online Courses

11 out of 12 total courses

On-Campus Experience

2 weekends or one 3-week summer course

$3,220 per course

Program Overview

In today’s globalized world, a master’s in international relations can be instrumental in opening doors to an array of career opportunities — from diplomacy and journalism to international business and conflict resolution.

By gaining a comprehensive understanding of global issues — such as international politics, economics, and law — you’ll develop multicultural competence, learn to navigate rapidly changing circumstances, and deepen your knowledge of the world and its complexities.

Through your learning journey, you will develop critical insights into the precursors, processes, and outcomes of international interactions between governments, organizations, and individuals.

Program Benefits

Customizable path, stackable certificates, & experiential learning

Expert instructors, including faculty from Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Personalized academic and career advising

A faculty-supported thesis or applied research project

Paid research opportunities

Harvard Alumni Association membership upon graduation

Customizable Course Curriculum

Our curriculum is flexible in pace and customizable by design. You’ll experience the convenience of online learning and the immersive benefits of learning in person. You can study part time, choosing courses that fit your schedule and align with your professional goals.

As you work through the program’s 12 courses, as well as a thesis or capstone project, you’ll have the opportunity to examine topics like human rights, international security, armed conflict, comparative politics, and world religions.

11 Online Courses

• Synchronous and asynchronous
• Fall, spring, January, and summer options

You’ll complete 1 on-campus course, Engaging in Scholarly Conversation, at an accelerated or standard pace:

• 2 weekends (1 in fall and 1 in spring)
• A 3-week summer session

Capstone or Thesis Track

• Thesis: features a 9-month independent research project with a faculty advisor
• Capstone: includes exploring a topic and completing a project in a classroom community

The path to your degree begins before you apply to the program.

First, you’ll register for and complete 3 required courses, earning at least a B in each. These foundational courses are investments in your studies and count toward your degree, helping ensure success in the program.

Getting Started

We invite you to explore degree requirements, confirm your initial eligibility, and learn more about our unique “earn your way in” admissions process.

Earning a Stackable Certificate

As you work your way toward your master’s degree, you can take courses that also count — or “stack” — toward a graduate certificate. It’s a cost-effective, time-saving opportunity to build specialized skills and earn a professional credential along the way to your degree.

Here are a few examples of stackable certificates and courses.

International Security View More

Gain insight into the complex issues that shape the global security landscape.

Sample stackable courses:

• Cyberspace and International Security
• American Foreign Policy
• Women, Peace, and Security
• Grand Strategy and Instruments of National Power

Learn more about the International Security Graduate Certificate .

Nuclear Deterrence View More

Examine the history and contemporary issues related to nuclear deterrence, security nonproliferation, and arms control.

• Nuclear Weapons and International Security
• International Conflict and Cooperation
• Evolution of Deterrence Theory
• Religion, Conflict, and Peace in Contemporary Global Affairs

Learn more about the Nuclear Deterrence Graduate Certificate .

Social Justice View More

Explore theoretical and practical questions of economic, political, and civil rights through several social lenses.

• Racial Equity and Economic Development
• Anthropology and Human Rights
• The Opioid Epidemic
• Environmental Justice

Learn more about the Social Justice Graduate Certificate .

A Faculty of International Relations Experts

Studying at Harvard Extension School means learning from the world’s best. Our instructors are renowned academics in international affairs, international security, conflict negotiation, and more. They bring a genuine passion for teaching, with students giving our faculty an average rating of 4.6 out of 5. Alt: They bring a genuine passion for teaching, evidenced by the consistently positive and productive classroom experience students’ report.

Nikolas Gvosdev

Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College

Joan Johnson-Freese

Professor Emeritus, National Security Affairs, Naval War College & Senior Fellow, Women in International Security

Dustin Tingley

Professor of Government, Harvard University

Our Community at a Glance

Nearly 70% of our international relations students are enrolled in our master’s degree program to either advance their careers or make a career change. They are putting their global understanding and policy training to work in a variety of public service, corporate, and nonprofit industries.

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Career Opportunities & Alumni Outcomes

Graduates of our International Relations Master’s Program work in the fields of international affairs, environmental services, public relations, financial services, management consulting, government administration, law, and more.

Some alumni continue their educational journeys and pursue further studies in other nationally ranked degree programs, including those at Boston College, Georgetown University, Northeastern University, and Pace University.

Our alumni hold such titles as:

• Foreign Affairs Officer
• Government Administration Consultant
• Defense and National Security Research Manager
• Energy Policy Analyst
• Assistant Attorney General
• Director of Policy and Research
• Sustainable Development Consultant
• Chief of Congressional and Media Affairs

Our alumni work at a variety of leading organizations, including:

• American Red Cross
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• United States Department of Defense
• United Nations
• Wells Fargo

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Whatever your career goals, we’re here to support you. Harvard’s Mignone Center for Career Success offers career advising, employment opportunities, Harvard alumni mentor connections, and career fairs.

Your Harvard University Degree

Upon successful completion of the required curriculum, you will earn the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Extension Studies, Field: International Relations.

Expand Your Connections: the Harvard Alumni Network

As a graduate, you’ll become a member of the worldwide Harvard Alumni Association (400,000+ members) and Harvard Extension Alumni Association (29,000+ members).

My time at HES was an opportunity to prove to myself that I was capable of academic excellence, of having the discipline to put in the time and intellectual resources to achieve the top grades that had previously eluded me.

Tuition & Financial Aid

Affordability is core to our mission. When compared to our continuing education peers, it’s a fraction of the cost.

After admission, you may qualify for financial aid . Typically, eligible students receive grant funds to cover a portion of tuition costs each term, in addition to federal financial aid options.

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What can you do with a master’s degree in international relations?

A master’s degree in international relations provides an incredible foundation for careers in diplomacy, government, and non-profit organizations. You can work as a foreign service officer, policy analyst, intelligence analyst, or public affairs consultant. In our globalized society, having a strong understanding of issues around the world will help you succeed in both your professional and personal life.

Is a master’s degree in international relations useful?

With 99% of recent graduates recommending our International Relations Master’s Degree Program, we believe the degree is extremely useful. The curriculum provides a range of courses that allow you to graduate with knowledge and skills that are transferable to a wide range of industries and careers.

How long does it take to complete the international relations graduate program?

Program length is ordinarily anywhere between 2 and 5 years. It depends on your preferred pace and the number of courses you want to take each semester.

For an accelerated journey, we offer year round study, where you can take courses in fall, January, spring, and summer.

While we don’t require you to register for a certain number of courses each semester, you cannot take longer than 5 years to complete the degree.

What skills do you need prior to applying for the international relations graduate program?

Harvard Extension School does not require any specific skills prior to applying, but in general, it’s helpful to have solid reading, writing, communication, and critical thinking skills if you are considering an international relations master’s degree. Initial eligibility requirements can be found on our international relations degree requirements page.

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• Government Master’s Degree Program
• History Master’s Degree Program
• International Relations Graduate Certificate
• International Security Graduate Certificate
• Nuclear Deterrence Graduate Certificate
• Social Justice Graduate Certificate

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Royal, Wippman Named Presidents-in-Residence

• Posted May 9, 2024
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The Harvard Graduate School of Education has announced the latest members of its Judith Block McLaughlin Presidents-in-Residence (PIR) Program . Christina Royal, president of Holyoke Community College, and David Wippman, president of Hamilton College, will join HGSE for the 2024-25 academic year.

As presidents-in-residence, Wippman and Royal will teach and mentor students in HGSE’s higher education degree offerings, contributing to courses and providing valuable insight based on their long careers as university presidents. Senior Lecturer Francesca Purcell , faculty director of the Presidents-in-Residence Program, shared that the latest appointments offer unique insights from across the higher educational leadership landscape.

“Their varying perspectives on higher education leadership in the 21st century will enrich and deepen the learning experiences for our students in the residential higher education concentration and in the online higher education pathway,” Purcell said. “Christina has extensive experience leading community colleges and David brings insights leading a small liberal arts college with both boasting exceptional records advancing equity, opportunity, and excellence across the national higher education landscape. Importantly, they are thoughtful practitioners who will engage with and inspire HGSE students.”

Dozens of college and university presidents have taken part in the PIR Program since it was created in 2001. Royal is the first community college president, and she said she is “honored” by the distinction.

“It is important for Harvard graduate students who are studying higher education to understand that community colleges are essential to the ecosystem of public post-secondary education and the vital role they play as an economic engine for society,” Royal said. “I’ve dedicated my career to higher education, with a particular focus on historically marginalized and racially minoritized students.”

Royal, who announced her departure as Holyoke’s president in the spring of 2023, made history as the school’s first woman of color president when she was appointed in 2017.

Her tenure saw the school launch programs promoting diversity and equity in higher education, working with the Holyoke Housing Authority and Westfield State University to support low-cost housing for students. Royal also advocated for programs to develop child care options for students with children and a student emergency fund for sudden expenses. Upon her retirement, an annual equity award at Holyoke was started and named in her honor.

“I’m looking forward to engaging in meaningful discussions with Harvard learners to deepen their understanding of the complexities of our American system of higher education,” said Royal. “Through these discussions, my hope is that they continue to unlearn the systems and structures that no longer work for us and re-learn ways to strengthen the ones that do.”

Royal earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Marist College in 1994 and received an M.A. in educational psychology in 2003. Royal received her Ph.D. in Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University in 2007. Her teaching career has included 15 years at Marist, another seven at Cuyahoga Community College and a stint as provost and chief academic officer at Inver Hills Community College.

Wippman, who has served as Hamilton’s president since 2016, announced his retirement at the end of the 2023-24 academic year. A recognized authority in international law, Wippman has taught about ethnic conflict, public international law, international criminal law, and international human rights.

His tenure at Hamilton has included the development of the College’s strategic plan, including a record-breaking Because Hamilton campaign to raise $400 million for College priorities, including $120 million for student scholarship aid. Wippman’s office prioritized diversity, equity and inclusion, and developed new programs to support student advising, digital fluency, and cross-boundary political thought and complex social issues.

Wippman was previously named dean of the University of Minnesota Law School in 2008. He also served as a professor and associate dean at Cornell Law School as well as vice provost for international relations at Cornell University.

“Serving as a President-in-Residence is a wonderful opportunity to work with and learn from future higher education leaders at a time when higher education leadership has become more challenging than ever,” Wippman said. “It's an honor to join a program with such distinguished faculty and talented students.”

A former U.S. Court of Appeals law clerk, Wippman served as a director in the National Security Council’s Office of Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs, working on war crimes issues, the International Criminal Court, economic sanctions, and U.N. political issues. Wippman earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1976, a master’s degree from Yale in 1978, and his law degree from Yale Law School in 1982.

The Presidents-in-Residence program was fully endowed in 2023 and renamed in honor of former Senior Lecturer Judith Block McLaughlin, who retired at the end of the 2022-23 academic year. McLaughlin first started the Presidents-in-Residence program in 2001, and two decades later it continues to serve as an opportunity for Ed School students to gain new perspectives and learn lessons from groundbreaking educational leaders sharing their own experiences and insights.

“Fundamentally, students need to understand themselves as leaders, what drives their decision-making processes, and who they are as people, in order to effectively lead others,” Royal said. “We spend a lot of time educating students into a contemporary image of a leader, although the best preparation for leadership is learning to be authentically themselves and share their unique gifts, talents, and strengths with others.”

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An Interfaith Answer to Campus Tensions

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Hinduism scholar Diana Eck, who founded the Pluralism Project at Harvard | Photograph by Aleksey Klavsyuk

“I think we are facing an existential crisis as a University,” said Ali Asani during a panel discussion on religious pluralism last Friday afternoon at the Harvard Divinity School, during which the campus divides over Israel-Palestine were at times front and center. Part of a daylong event commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of College’s undergraduate program in comparative religion, the discussion was in part a celebration of the University’s Pluralism Project , which studies religious diversity and interfaith relations in the United States; and of its founder, Diana Eck , who is retiring this year as professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society.

The inescapable backdrop for the conversation, though, was the months-long unrest at Harvard and other campuses over the Israeli war in Gaza, and the religious and political tensions the conflict has inflamed across the country. More than one panelist argued that those problems make the Pluralism Project’s work more essential than ever. Eck, a scholar of Hinduism, opened the discussion with a recollection of the organization’s founding in 1991. She noted the racial and religious antipathies that have persisted even as the United States has become a more multi-religious and multicultural society. At the Pluralism Project, she said, “Our work is really about identifying that there are conflicts, of course, but then to study them and ask, ‘How are people coming together?’ Not so much, ‘How are they digging themselves in deeper on their own side of the tide?’”

Eck and Asani, the Albertson professor of Middle Eastern studies and professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic religion and culture, reiterated some of the points they’d made earlier in the week at a Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting . Both serve on Harvard’s task force on combating anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias (Asani is its co-chair), and they advocated expanding case-method instruction at the University as a way to help resolve the kinds of painful and difficult disputes that have arisen on campus during this past school year. The case method is historically associated with law and business school pedagogy, but the Pluralism Project began experimenting with it in 2005, incorporating it into Eck’s course, “Religion in Multicultural America: Case Studies in Religious Pluralism.” In 2023, a compilation volume was published, Pluralism in Practice: Case Studies of Leadership in a Religiously Diverse America (written by Elinor J. Pierce, the Pluralism Project’s research director, with an afterword by Eck).

“The dream,” Asani said, “is to introduce a course, required of all Harvard students, regardless of the faculty, using the pluralism case method.” He said he envisions class sections that would mix together students from different parts of the University in the same classrooms. The course, he said, would give students “the tools and frameworks to engage with and understand difference. That should be one of the attributes of any graduate of Harvard.” When he said this, listeners in the room applauded.

This is a pitch he has made before. Asani recalled being in Pakistan on October 7, when Hamas attacked Israelis, setting off the current war. He was there that day to make a presentation to the Karachi-based Aga Khan University (an institution with roots at Harvard), promoting the idea of a required case-method course on pluralism. He returned to Cambridge afterward to find “everything here was a mess,” and in need of the same kind of pluralism instruction he’d been advocating abroad. “At this moment,” he said, “everyone’s seeing the world through binaries, and we know how dangerous binaries are.” He paraphrased Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor and professor of economics and philosophy, who wrote that the impulse to categorize human beings into single categories leads to a “haziness of vision,” Asani said, which “the champions of violence will exploit.…That is exactly what’s happening here.” The question now, Asani continued, is “How to move from this binary world that we have been forced into, and go into a pluralist mode? How do we change the narrative? This is something that we have to struggle with.” The struggle, he argued, is not only urgent, but existential. “In Pakistan you quote the Koran, but here we have ‘ E pluribus unum .’ What happened to that?”

Later, in response to an audience questioner who expressed surprise that the two University task forces, on antisemitism and on anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias, were established as separate groups, Asani explained that the current divisions on campus necessitated it: “If we just had a combined listening session, there were students who wouldn’t show up.” But a goal, he said, is for the two groups to begin to come together wherever possible, to “[build] community and pluralism.” He also noted that he was a member of the Harvard presidential committee that in 2018 released an updated statement of University values , which included “respect for the rights, differences, and dignity of others” and “responsibility for the bonds and bridges that enable all to grow with and learn from each other.” Looking back at the statement now, he said, “We’ve obviously veered off those values. Why and how did we do that? And how do we get back to those? …So, we’re using that [statement] as an anchor to work with both task forces, and I think that will bring us together.”

The other panelists, too, offered comments that gestured toward current tensions. Whittney Barth, M.Div. ’11, executive director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, who was among the early students in Eck’s case-method course, spoke of the importance in the classroom not only of “deep listening and understanding” and the search for common ground, but also the need “to sit with those differences. Sometimes they can’t be reconciled. And so what do you do with that?”

Anant Rambachan, religion professor emeritus at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, called pluralism a necessity “for building campus community and for overcoming ignorance and fear, which are the conditions for violence.” But he also spoke of it as a more celebratory necessity: “What is the religious value of having a world in which there are Muslims, there are Buddhists, Jews, Sikhs, Jains? …Do we have a religious need for each other?”

Susan Shumaker, M.T.S. ’91, a story producer for Florentine Films (Ken Burns’s documentary production company), talked about her most recent project, The American Buffalo , released last year. She described the near-extinction of the buffalo as a story of “religious difference,” between Native Americans’ and European settlers’ approaches to nature. “I often think that our films are sort of a morality tale,” she said, “a case study for how bad things can get if the Pluralism Project doesn’t work.”

Eck closed the discussion with a bit of inter-religious hopefulness: “In the Hindu calendar, this is the third day of the brightening fortnight of the month Vaisakha,” she said. “It is a day called Akshaya Tritiya, which is the one day in the year when anything you do becomes immortal. Thank you for all your words today.”

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The Senior Quantitative Analyst will be a member of the analytics team within Football Operations. This position will expose candidates to all parts of the modern NFL front office, including player evaluation, game preparation, resource allocation, sports science, and player development. A good candidate will be able to work with football data to draw insights and improve decision-making. Applicants should have the quantitative skills to analyze complex problems and the technical ability to implement their ideas effectively. We expect applicants to have a strong foundation in statistical modeling.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in a relevant field preferred
• Advanced analytical and quantitative skills
• Demonstrated experience in statistics and machine learning
• Proficient with data management and analysis in statistical software (R, Python, SQL)
• Software development and data visualization skills
• Good communication skills, verbal and written
• Ability to work independently with a hands-on approach
• Passion for football

Inquiries: James Gilman, [email protected] ; Jon Liu, [email protected]

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Our Comprehensive Employee Benefits and Well-being Package Includes:

· Generous time off effective the first day of hire, which include paid holidays, floating holidays, summer Fridays, 3 weeks paid vacation, sick time, and Eagles time.

· Access to online learning platform.

· Best in class health insurance for employees and families including Dental, Vision, FSA, HSA, Mental Health.

· On-site cafeteria and fitness area.

· Financial wellness. 401(k) with company match and company provided Defined Benefit Pension Plan.

· Employee Volunteer Events

*Please note this posting will remain open through December of 2024.* 

Professor Intisar Rabb Hiring Teaching Fellows for Fall 2024 Criminal Law

Professor Rabb’s Criminal Law course will meet Monday and Tuesday from 10:15am-12:15pm during the Fall 2024 semester.

Interested students should submit a one-paragraph statement of interest, a resume and an unofficial transcript (all in PDF format) by no later than Noon on Thursday, May 23. Please submit application materials to Emma Reilly ( [email protected] ) and CC Professor Rabb ( [email protected] ).

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