Currently going to attend UNT this fall as a pre-business major. I want to keep the option open on transferring to UT Austin as a Government major after my freshman year. Just wanted to know how well regarded the government major is here? The pros and cons of the instruction/curriculum of this major? and if current government majors actually enjoy the program and facilities provided? Basically trying to get an idea on if its a good program in comparison to other Polisci/Gov programs and if the program itself has good professors, guest speakers, resources for student, employment opportunities etc. I havent seen much discussion on the government major on these forums, so i’d like to hear something from current or past government majors if at all possible, I however wont complain on any insight provided by anybody. Thanks in advance for any help.
We had a family friend who majored in government at UT many years ago. He had many great internship opportunities at the legislature and within the state government.
http://news.utexas.edu/2013/03/12
From a few years ago, but ranking graduate programs nationwide US news ranked UT 21st in polisci. Clearly that’s not undergraduate, but it gives you a decent idea of the level of professors you’ll be dealing with, the amount of seminars and guest speakers available etc. UT also has top ranked Philosophy, English, and History programs, so overall they’re very strong in the Liberal Arts.
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/faculty/index.php
If you go to the link above you can find all of the professors in the government department. If you click on their names, then the courses tab to the right you can see all of the classes they’ve taught, and under the course description or syllabi tab for the individual classes you can see a basic course description and how the class will be structured. There are a lot of really interesting Government classes at UT. They offer a ton of different classes too, like ~60 unique courses a semester, so it shouldn’t be a problem actually getting into classes.
looks to be a solid program. Thanks for the input. Now its just the headache of deciding which classes to take that allows me to transfer the easiest.
So, I just found out that Gov’t at UT has literally zero prerequisite courses, so it should be an easy transfer course wise. Now the key is to get a 3.5-3.6 GPA so i can stay competitive in the transfer admissions process.