The
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (commonly abbreviated
SFS) is a school of
international affairs within
Georgetown University in
Washington, D.C., United States. Currently ranked amongst the top foreign service schools, it stands first in the world at the graduate level.
Jesuit priest
Edmund A. Walsh founded the School of Foreign Service in 1919, recognizing the need for a school that would prepare Americans for roles as diplomats and business professionals in the wake of expanding involvement by the U.S. in world affairs after World War I. The school predates the
U.S. Foreign Service by six years.