<p>NYU's politics dept. is filled with budding politicos and those who plan to go to law school. I've heard the politics dept. has a little less grade inflation than some of the other departments, but that the top students are still ridiculously sucessful in getting into great law schools (including NYU) or jobs in either government or the corporate world. Beyond that, I don't know much more. </p>
<p>Perhaps the best thing for you to do is to check out various rankings like the Gourman Report and check out the website of the NYU politics dept. itself (see the quality of profs. and undergrad program there).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/%5B/url%5D">http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/</a></p>