There was Syracuse University, where he graduated in 1980 with a public-relations degree.
Masha, 27, is an artist-director with an international relations degree.
"Some sort of international relations degree would be awesome," Ms. Tomtishen said.
They moved back to Cincinnati so that he could finish school and she could find a job that made use of her public relations degree.
Still living under an alias, Ling Gu graduated from Peking University last year with an international relations degree and began graduate studies in education.
Funmi Ogunlusi's BA in politics with international relations degree at the University of York included a year in Hong Kong and, while there, she developed an interest in relations between China and Africa.
I sought out the CIA as a college student, convinced that it was the ideal place to serve my country and put an otherwise abstract international- relations degree to use.
But more important, I know that I would enjoy a job with an international focus, and that an international relations degree won't constrain my options in the fields in which I'm interested.
By the time I graduated (with an international-relations degree, instead; I'd changed my mind), my friends and I were using Facebook to stay in touch, Google was about to go public, and companies were taking seniors out to recruitment dinners at the fanciest restaurants in Palo Alto.
McCoy was 22 when she went into the corps after graduating with an international relations degree focusing on Africa and the French language from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
