<p><a href=“http://www.politicalstudies.org/pdf/psr/hix.pdf[/url]”>http://www.politicalstudies.org/pdf/psr/hix.pdf</a></p>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Ohio </li>
<li>EUI (Italy)</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>UC Irvine</li>
<li>Indiana</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>UC Berk</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>UCLA </li>
<li>LSE (UK)</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Essex (UK)</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Oxford…</li>
</ol>
<p>yeah i saw this one. i am truly surprised at how ohio state and indiana did so well. just amazing.
Ohio State > Oxford... not something you see every day</p>
<p>Wow, another reason to apply to Columbia.</p>
<p>btw. number 12 isn't UM it's MSU. MSU actually does have a better poli sci dept than UM, even though UM kids say they have the best. Another interesting fact, and another reason not to apply to UM.</p>
<p>also!! to s snack. </p>
<p>i have seen this ranking several times, and is this undergrad or grad ? is this also trustworthy, or atleast better than other poli sci rankings ?</p>
<p>Groenveld: It's a ranking of the department as a whole, so not specific to grad or undergrad.</p>
<p>And from the research I've done, this is THE ranking for Poli Sci, meaning it's definitely the most well respected one you'll find.</p>
<p>ok nice.... also texas a&m, fsu and colorado look pretty impressive on the list...</p>
<p>does anyone where does columbia rank for economics?</p>
<p>Essex better than Oxford for Politics??</p>
<p>Oh and how come Georgetown is so low down I thought it was meant to be the place for political science?</p>
<p>no, it a a good poli sci place, very good actually. It is more a international relations and maybe even public policy hotspot.</p>
<p>I'd just like to point out that the article cited above apparently derived the ranking solely based on the number of published journal articles produced by the faculties of each school. In other words, the Columbia faculty is the most prolific and widely-published. That says absolutely nothing one way or the other about the quality of teaching, course offerings, typical class size, or opportunities afforded undergrads for research, writing or internships. </p>
<p>So I would suggest that students interested in majoring in poli sci should delve a little deeper, such as checking course offerings and faculty reviews on Culpa, and perhaps reading some of those journal articles to get sense of the type of work the faculty is doing, and dominant methodology and philosophic approach. The wikipedia article at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science</a> gives a good overview of the many different approaches, topics, and schools of thought that are represented in the field. It would be very possible for an undergraduate to attend a top "ranked" school and be very unhappy with the approach taken and the required coursework for the major simply because there was a mismatch between the offerings of that university and what the student was interested in studying.</p>
<p>This isn't actually a rating of departments but of universities, e.g. at Harvard the survey added in the KSG faculty whose web pages desribe themselves as political scientists; this explains the huge number of faculty listed for Harvard, it may also have lowered the average publication and average impact scores. This particular case is spelled out in the paper; something similar may be at work in cases where the reported poli sci faculty is a lot larger than the corrresponding poli sci department.</p>
<p>Actually, Essex has a very good reputation for political science in the uk and in Europe. Essex favors a more quantitative approach then oxford does and is a growing department. But of course you have to be skeptical about any ranking system because each system favors a different approach.</p>