<p>Is someone familiar with this department? Is it ranked, renowned, etc? All the information online is about the graduate program, which is ranked. Please help me out.</p>
<p>That’s probably all you’re going to find. I’m pretty sure that if the graduate program is good, you would be in good hands as an undergrad as well. It’s the faculty that matters, and the faculty is one and the same.</p>
<p>Lidusha is exactly right. It is considered a top ten program. US News rates the department 9th in the US, but only looks at graduate programs.</p>
<p>QS, who does rate world undergraduate programs places MIT 16th in the world and 10th in the US (after Harvard, Oxford, London School of Economics, Yale, Stamford, Princeton, Cambridge, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Australian National University, University of Tokyo, National University of Singapore, Georgetown, NYU, and Chicago)</p>
<p>I believe the political science department at MIT is very strong One of the best and meticulously researched historical/political science books I have ever read re the american revolution is titled Ratification:The People Debate the Constitution 1787-88, by an MIT history professor named Pauline Maier, which won national book awards. Also unlike some STEM schools, MIT emphasizes a fairly detailed liberal arts curriculum</p>
<p>MIT’s political science department is certainly very good though it also quite small compared to other schools both in terms of faculty and particularly in terms of undergrad majors. This means that course offerings are somewhat limited compared to schools like Harvard. A department with 5-10 majors per year like MIT is going to be a very different experience than at peer schools with many more majors. As such I wouldn’t necessarily recommend MIT for a student whose primary interest is political science but the department is definitely strong enough for someone who wants to double major in a STEM field and political science.</p>