The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (French: Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, abrreviated to IHEID) is a postgraduate university located in Geneva, Switzerland. In academic and professional circles, the Graduate Institute is considered one of Europe's most prestigious institutions. The Institute's alumni include ambassadors, royalty, foreign ministers, heads of state, and former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, and counts seven Nobel prize recipients and one Pulitzer prize winner among its alumni and current/former faculty. It specializes in the fields of political science, international relations, international law, international economics, international history, anthropology and development studies.
The Graduate Institute has a diverse student body and cosmopolitan character due to its 80 percent intake of international students, of over 100 nationalities. It is located blocks from the United Nations headquarters in Europe, the World Trade Organization, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the World Health Organization.
The school is a full member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, an organization of leading universities with programs in international studies. It is recognized by the Swiss government as an independent academic institution.
It is continental Europe's oldest school of international relations (Aberystwyth University in Wales was founded in 1919) and was the first university dedicated solely to the study of international affairs. It offered one of the first doctoral programs in international relations in the world. In 2008, the Graduate Institute of International Studies absorbed the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), a smaller post-graduate institution also based in Geneva. The merger resulted in the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
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