MSFS’s emphasis on practical skills-oriented training was praised by the Hoya as a successful example amid a hubbub of Georgetown graduate students being underprepared for future careers after graduation.
“It was pointed out that in the Master of Science in Foreign Service program, for example, an element of that program’s success is the stress on a generalist, inter-disciplinary knowledge,” said The Hoya’s Graduate Conservator in an article on February 28, 1975.