<p>I know it's extremely highly regarded for engineering and sciences, but how is their political science department?</p>
<p>I guess nobody knows</p>
<p>I don't have specific knowledge about Political Science, but the Liberal Arts generally are actually fairly good at Virginia Tech.</p>
<p>Agreed. I know several people up there who really like it. Despite "the incident" that devasted them. Wonderful school. </p>
<p>One way to check on the strength of the program is to go to their website and look up the political science department and also to check the credentials of the faculty in that department. You might even ping the department head and mention your interest and I am sure they will be happy to ping you back about some of the things going on there.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>The PS dept at VT is actually pretty strong. You can do your own research on dept profs and find their interests, publications, etc.</p>