<p>Does anyone have any information of Georgetown's Government program? It says on their website that they have made huge gains in rankings, but am struggling to find information on their reputation. Any help would be great.</p>
<p>The fact that you are already basing your outlook of a PhD program on internet rankings tells me everything I need to know about your potential as a PhD student, namely that it is bleak.
Try finding out if anyone at Georgetown has research interests that mesh with yours first. That might be the smart place to start.</p>
<p>Done and done. Now, anyone with information relevant to the original post, it would be appreciated.</p>
<p>This seems like a perfectly legitimate question to me, and I don't see how this has anything to do with his/her ability as a PhD student. The OP's whole point was that he couldn't find any information beyond these rankings, not that he's basing his judgement on them. With all due respect, quit being so pretentious, jmleadpipe.</p>
<p>Anyway, I've spent some time looking into Georgetown, too, because I was interested in their J.D./Ph.D in Government program. One thing I noticed is that of their PhD candidates, relatively few receive funding from Georgetown (I think like 4 out of 12 that come there every year or something). Not sure what this says about the culture/reputation of the place, though.</p>
<p>depends on what subfield you're interested in. they do pretty good in theory, decent in american/comparative, and quite good in IR in terms of academic placement. i've heard from friend there that they're rebuilding the program to compete with the heavy hitters, so i'd expect to see them place better in the near future. funding is apparently an issue, but that's because the university apparently has little money for any grad students. but from what my friend tells me, a lot of students get picked up along the way with funding.</p>
<p>nobleguy,</p>
<p>The OPs point was that he was seeking information strictly in regards to rankings. I was simply pointing out, I believe accurately, that anyone who seeks out PhD programs based on internet rankings is starting off on the wrong foot. You can call that pretentious advice if you want but I call it realism.</p>
<p>OP's point was actually not about rankings. It was about getting information other than what it is in the rankings.</p>
<p>UT-Austin, U-Wisconsin Madison, Cornell...seems like a very good academic placement record to me.</p>