Why International Relations Degrees are USELESS...for the most part - COLLEGE CRINGE | #grindreel

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[JoshuaFluke]

TL;DR -
Go to college for whatever you want but be very informed about the outcome you want, versus the outcome you'll realistically get.
Consider the price, time and potential debt you'll take on to do it.
Ask yourself if you can learn these things outside of college.
Ask yourself if you can learn these things while also doing a different degree?
Ask yourself what skills you'll take away from this degree you can use to add value to a company, individual to make a living.

[harm]

I think it's for rich hot people with connections to meet other rich hot people with connections

[ЖеняГаро-Большиеденьгинафрилан]

I studied at history faculty in Lyceum, and one day our teacher asked her alumni who just graduated from International Relations to promote us the course. When I asked him what he will do after his degree he said: “Basically I am a guy who knows everything, but unable to do anything”.
I felt that.

[giorgimikhelidze]

Ah yes, a video about the biggest mistake of my life

[conman]

I interact with people from different nations and cultures by playing CS:GO.

[awarepenguin]

"This whole degree looks like a f*cking vacation."

Done.

[SonnyBear]

The college I went to had an Equestrian Studies program where you can learn to ride horses competitively. $50, 000 per year...to ride horses...and they don’t even provide the horses.

[betolangsch]

i got my bachelor's in IR... i remember how my teacher told us once "IR is the college dregree that will teach you how to hunt dinosaurs, you'll spend 4 years of your life learning how to hunt them, how they work, how they think... until you leave college and you realize THERE ARE NO FUC**** DINOSAURS! So what do you do ? 1- You get another degree; 2- you are so good at arguing that you convince people they need you to hunt dinosaurs for them. or 3- You teach others how to hunt dinosaurs"

[futuredeath]

Alright let's do this! **Graduates with useless International Relations Degree and the world closes down so you just explore your own neighborhood**

[pulisichhh]

Over here in Peru this is the go-to "career" for the ones who want to go to uni but don't know what to study. It's one of the most popular and also the one with the highest rate of unemployment among their graduates along with Business Admin

[vamsishankar]

This is a rich dudes degree, I can see that this dude travelled over 20 countries while studying.

[KHANSTER]

Getting an actual internship at the UN is a joke. I would love to see you make a video on it.
The UN internships are unpaid, you also have to pay for travel, accommodation and food. I live in the UK and when I looked to apply, the only open positions were in Austria and South Korea and yet the UN expected you to take care of the plane tickets, visa issues and look for an accommodation yourself.

Meanwhile they expected you to work unpaid, full-time for a series of months. It is a complete joke!

[Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

We bigfoots don't go to college out here in the woods

[professorudd]

Alright I need to step in here. (I'm an MA-IR graduate from a top tier school for context) 1. This video looks bizarre. Most legit IR programs don't advertise this way. 2. I agree that a BA in IR doesn't make much sense and I totally agree that the MA-IR is the much better way to go. 3. IR is for VERY specific career paths. If you want to be a foreign service officer, work at a DC think tank, work at an inter-governmental or INGO, work at DoS or USAID this degree coupled with a WELL KNOWN school will easily get you a REALLY good job after grad school. I would say easily 95% of my cohort all found jobs directly after grad school with the majority of those jobs being in the federal government or an inter-governmental org. And btw, my cohort was not a bunch of lazy rich kids. We all worked our asses off, slept in the office countless nights, worked on consulting projects with real world consequences. A decent IR program will have like 2 theory classes and then ALL the rest of the classes are advanced stats, advanced economics, coursework with real world practitioners who literally teach you the internal frameworks of how for example the World Food Program works (WFP recruits alot of folks from good IR programs btw). 4. The UN internship is NOT a joke. It's competitive for a reason. And the job offers alone afterwards easily make up for the unpaid internship. It's like Harvard, just having it on your resume zooms you past other people. BUT, even if it gets you job interviews afterwards you still have to actually KNOW how to do the job. You can do policy analysis at the UN but then have an advanced stats exam (literally an EXAM not a silly test) when you apply for a job somewhere after. (FYI, you need to take advanced stats and other related courses in most legit IR programs). So you need to actually know what you're doing. 5. Also, many people misunderstand the UN recruiting process because they don't take the time to actually understand it. It's far easier to get UN internships abroad and have ALOT more serious projects and tasks. Many many folks I know have done UN internship (in Uganda for example) > directly going into a project management or program officer position for a big INGO like Save the Children > Director track for same org in DC or directly in the Department of State. Also, if you excel in your IR program you can sit for the PMF exam DURING grad school and doing well on that exam essentially gets you right into the state department. But it's NOT an easy exam and like anything else you have to work and study hard and earn that fellowship. 6. In sum, an MA-IR is what you make of it. But I can assure you that any program worth a grain of salt will throw you out of the program quite quickly if you don't pull your weight. IR is ALOT more than just learning about other countries and geography. It's literally about learning the tangible day to day work of state craft and the advanced skills required to know what the hell you're doing when you go to work at a global institution. It's designed for folks who want to be practitioners, not dream about theory all day. 7. I'm actually not upset at all with Josh and completely understand where he's coming from. There ARE alot of idiots out there and there are alot of programs that are deceiving. I just want people to know that there's more to the REAL IR than what is commonly thought of it. Thanks for listening this far, folks!

[stuart]

I don't think it's a waste of time for everything, my dad did a master's in international relations and s bachelor's in political science. He was a diplomat, though embassy security RSO, so it relied more on work experience. These types of government jobs often require a degree, so if you have a solid career plan it's not a waste.

Im studying in Europe where it's a few thousand euros s year. Listen bro, what you're missing is many jobs require college degrees, so yes they can learn these skills on their own but without a degree nobody is going to hire them

[KontentKorner]

I majored in psychology to then go be a psychologist. I elected against social services due to the low pay and value, and now I have a $30k piece of paper and I work in the legal dept. Don’t be me
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[FGuilt]

"I just like to learn about things I never knew about before."
-that's... Kind of a prerequisite to learning anything... no?

[alecmedine]

Don't ask your professors what you can do with your humanities or social science degree. The only career most of them have ever known is academia; they have no idea what the work world looks like outside of the university.

[Erik-iwek]

I love these videos, even as someone with a BA in Marketing and an MBA. Everything you're saying is true. Majority of these degrees are totally useless.

[deceptivebanana]

Same can be said for most business degrees except Accounting/Finance. I studied marketing and I do not use ANYTHING they taught me in college. Everything that I use - Adobe Suite, Google/Facebook Ads, SEO, Excel, Printing, Photography, Filming; I learned everything on my own.