<p>And if we manipulate the numbers enough, a certain school (no names mentioned) could probably be # 1...... :)</p>
<p>How is American? Are they good for PoliSci? What about Norwich?</p>
<p>Umm these aren't rankings of how good a school is for political science or IR. They are only rankings of graduate school placement...but it's not p.s. or IR graduate schools...it's public policy and public administration.</p>
<p>I have this theory that for social science departments, overall school quality is a very good reflection of the quality of the department</p>
<p>that being said, I'd probably go with the broad list of the entire Ivy League, Stanford, Duke, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Georgetown</p>
<p>Of course, those are just some</p>
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Umm these aren't rankings of how good a school is for political science or IR. They are only rankings of graduate school placement...but it's not p.s. or IR graduate schools...it's public policy and public administration.
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<p>It isn't a ranking at all. It's a list of per capita or raw totals of PhDs in a particular field. I think the notion of a ranking of undergrad programs is pretty silly. However, if one were determined to do so, it would make sense to look at several types of information. Future PhD productivity would be one of many indices worth considering.</p>
<p>The National Science Foundation uses a descriptive phrase in their database for each specific field. The phrase they use for the political science field is "Political Science and Public Administration". That's because not all graduate schools call it "political science". For example, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard does not calls any of their PhD's "political science".</p>
<p>Do you guys think that Stanford has the most conservative profs? ie hoover. Also, I heard from a yale student that famous alums come by all the time in poly sci. Is this actually the case?</p>