The University of Denver (DU)'s Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) is graduate school located in Ben Cherrington Hall (BCH) on the DU campus.
DU created the Department of International Relations, one of the first in the country, in 1929.[1] This department became the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) in 1964, under the leadership of Josef Korbel, father of former US Secretary of StateMadeleine Albright.[2]
Since its inception, the school has been committed to helping professionals respond intelligently, ethically and effectively to the challenges facing the global village.[3]
In a 2006/2007 survey performed by the College of William and Mary and published by Foreign Policy magazine, the Koerbel School of International Studies ranked 9th in the nation for graduate programs, ahead of such schools as Syracuse, University of Chicago, Yale, Stanford, University of California-Berkeley, and MIT.[4]
Areas of study
The GSIS focuses on training graduate students in a number of different areas[5]: