Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
Service
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
Service
The seal of Georgetown University
Established:
1919[1]
Type:
Private
Religious
affiliation:
Roman Catholic (Jesuit)
Dean:
Amb. Robert Gallucci
Students:
1,900[1]
Undergraduates: 1,400[1]
Postgraduates:
500[1]
Location:
Washington, D.C., 20057,
USA
38°54′26″N 77°4′22″W /
38.90722°N 77.07278°W /
38.90722;
-77.07278Coordinates:
38°54′26″N 77°4′22″W /
38.90722°N 77.07278°W /
38.90722; -77.07278
Campus:
Urban
Nickname:
SFS
Website:
sfs.georgetown.edu
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
Service (commonly abbreviated SFS) is a
school within Georgetown University
in
Washington, D.C., United States. Jesuit priest
Edmund A. Walsh founded the School of For-
eign Service in 1919, recognizing the need
for a school that would prepare Americans
for roles as diplomats and business profes-
sionals in the wake of the U.S.’ expanding in-
volvement in the world after World War I.
The school predates the U.S. Foreign Service
by six years.
Today, SFS hosts a student body of ap-
proximately 2,100 from 80 nations each year.
It offers an undergraduate program based in
the liberal arts, which leads to the Bachelor
of Science in Foreign Service degree, as well
as six interdisciplinary graduate programs.[1]
Its faculty include many distinguished figures
in international affairs, such as former U.S.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence
George Tenet, former President of Poland
Aleksander Kwaśniewski, and former Prime
Minister of Spain José María Aznar.[2]
The School of Foreign Service is widely re-
cognized as one of the world’s leading inter-
national affairs schools and is sometimes re-
ferred to as the "West Point of the U.S. diplo-
matic corps." In 2007, the Carnegie Endow-
ment’s Foreign Policy magazine ranked the
school’s undergraduate program fourth in
the nation and its master’s programs first in
the nation.[3] Famous alumni include former
U.S. President Bill Clinton, current Philippine
President Gloria