<p>Just looking for some other opinions before I finalize a really big decision.</p>
<p>Is Political Science big on campus? Or is it overshadowed by pre-meds? Does the department tend to specialize more in one of the four sub-fields of political science, or would you say that it is balanced?</p>
<p>How would you compare their poli sci to that of a liberal arts college along the lines of Carleton, Oberlin, or Macalester?</p>
<p>Thanks for your thoughts.</p>
<p>Poli Sci is one of the more popular majors at WUSTL. You can see the relative number of students who graduate with each major at College Navigator. It shows 84 poli sci majors, and 100 bio majors. (Probably a larger number started out as bio majors, but ended up switching to something else.)
[College</a> Navigator - Washington University in St Louis](<a href=“College Navigator - Washington University in St Louis”>College Navigator - Washington University in St Louis)</p>
<p>From the WUSTL poli sci home page, “We are widely recognized for our strengths in theory, methods, and the rigorous combination of the two.”
[Department</a> of Political Science](<a href=“http://polisci.wustl.edu/]Department”>http://polisci.wustl.edu/)</p>
<p>A key difference with a liberal arts college is the presence of a graduate school and the number of research centers. The graduate program ranks highly.
[WU</a> Graduate Program Excels in NRC Ratings | Department of Political Science](<a href=“http://polisci.wustl.edu/news/340]WU”>http://polisci.wustl.edu/news/340)</p>
<p>Intro classes will be likely be larger at WUSTL than at a liberal arts college. However, a wider range of courses will be taught at WUSTL, because of the larger faculty size. There are a large number of courses, not all of which are taught every semester, some only once every two years.
<a href=“http://polisci.wustl.edu/files/polisci/allcourses.pdf[/url]”>http://polisci.wustl.edu/files/polisci/allcourses.pdf</a></p>