<p>Can anyone name some schools that have great Political Science departments besides Georgetown, George Washington, and American? Thanks!</p>
<p>University of Tennessee!! The Howard Baker Center for Public Policy will be completed in 2008 I believe. And, my Poli Sci 101 professor holds a PHD. Can't get much better than that. There are actually quite a few students majoring in Poli Sci. If you go the main site (<a href="http://www.tennessee.edu)%5B/url%5D">www.tennessee.edu)</a>, you can search for the Public Policy center. It's going to be amazing once it's done for all us Poli Sci people. :)</p>
<p>I am going to be doing Poli Sci hopefull as well and this is what I came up with (at least the ones I am greatly considering)</p>
<p>Yale
Princeton
Columbia
Stanford
Michigan @ Ann Arbor
Cal-Berkeley</p>
<p>here is the Gourman Ranking for Poli Sci someone posted somewhere else:</p>
<ol>
<li> Yale</li>
<li> Harvard</li>
<li> Berkeley</li>
<li> Michigan</li>
<li> Chicago</li>
<li> MIT</li>
<li> Stanford</li>
<li> Wisconsin</li>
<li> Minnesota</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>UNC Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Indiana Bloomington</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Ohio State</li>
<li>U Penn</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Texas Austin</li>
<li>U Washington</li>
<li>U Pittsburgh</li>
<li>U Rochester</li>
<li>Rutgers</li>
<li>Brandeis</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Illinois UC</li>
<li>Oregon</li>
<li>Maryland CP</li>
<li>Iowa</li>
<li>UC Santa Barbara</li>
<li>SUNY Buffalo</li>
<li>U Mass Amherst</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Michigan St</li>
<li>Syracuse</li>
<li>Washington U St Louis</li>
<li>US Air Force Acad</li>
<li>US Military Acad</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>UC Davis</li>
<li>Boston U</li>
<li>Tulane</li>
</ol>
<p>i dont know if id say american or george washington have amazing poli sci programs. their rankings are not particularly impressive, their location, however, is awesome for the study of poli sci. the best poli programs in the nation include (in no particular order):</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
Michigan
UC Berkeley
UCSD
UCLA
Chicago
Columbia
Yale
Princeton</p>
<p>Check out US News ranking for poli sci. I believe all of these are top ten programs.</p>
<p>Tufts' IR and PoliSci depts are excellent.</p>
<p>Wisconsin has one of the nation's best political communication programs along with top regional studies programs.</p>