Ranking Political Science Departments

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<p>I would like to know the top ten graduate political science departments (public policy and government included) in the nation. This does not include amount of education for value, nor does it include setting. I am talking about performance, professors, prestige, and job output. Here is my list.</p>

<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>University of Michigan</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
</ol>

<p>Give your suggestions or amendments! If you can’t name ten, go for five or three.</p>

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<p>hmm. you want to rank KSG against woody wilson against hoover? Tough call.</p>

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<p>Here (according to the 2004 USNews rankings, are the top 10 Public Policy/Public Affairs schools:</p>

<ol>
<li> Syracuse University (Maxwell) (NY) 4.6</li>
<li> Harvard University (KSG) (MA) 4.5</li>
<li> Indiana University--Bloomington 4.2
University of Georgia 4.2</li>
<li> Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson) (NJ) 4.1
University of California--Berkeley 4.1</li>
<li> University of Southern California 4.0</li>
<li> Carnegie Mellon University (PA) 3.9
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor 3.9</li>
<li> American University (DC) 3.8
Duke University (NC) 3.8
George Washington University (DC) 3.8
SUNY--Albany 3.8
University of Kansas 3.8
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill 3.8
University of Texas--Austin 3.8</li>
</ol>

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<p>And here is USNews' ranking of the top 10 graduate programs in Political Science:</p>

<ol>
<li> Harvard University (MA) 4.9</li>
<li> Stanford University (CA) 4.7
University of California–Berkeley 4.7
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 4.7</li>
<li> Yale University (CT) 4.6</li>
<li> Princeton University (NJ) 4.5</li>
<li> University of California–San Diego 4.3</li>
<li> Duke University (NC) 4.2
University of California–Los Angeles 4.2
University of Chicago 4.2</li>
</ol>

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<p>With apologies to all, Columbia is #1: <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/05/03/political_science.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/05/03/political_science.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>From UC Davis:</p>

<p>"How have the top-rated campuses differed from UC Davis in the shares of their resources they allocated to the social sciences versus other fields? Their strategies vary, of course. Some have made less relative commitment to social sciences than Davis. MIT and Caltech have succeeded by insisting on good engineering, math, and physical sciences, with only a few pockets of excellence in social science. Closer to our strategy is Cornell, the main example of excellence with heavy commitment to biological sciences and agriculture. At the other end of the spectrum, social sciences and the humanities are the main reason why Princeton gets the top rating for overall undergraduate excellence. Six other Ivy’s have done something similar. This is the prevailing success story, even in public universities. Among the public campuses ranked above us, the tendency is for a larger commitment to social science than Davis has given (as we have seen for Berkeley, UCLA, and UC San Diego in Table 2)."</p>

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<p>For those looking at Guides that rank majors, I suggest Ruggs.</p>

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<p>Do remember that ranking entire poly sci departments is rather misleading. Undergraduates DO NOT study at the Kennedy School. At p-ton, only seniors and grad students take classes from the Wilson School.</p>

<p>Just something to remember.</p>

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<p>How about a ranking of undergraduate poli sci depts?</p>

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<p>You are incorrect,</p>

<p>There are many undergrad opportunities at the Kennedy School.</p>

<p>And to netshark: there is no line of demarcation between the "undergrad" faculty and the "grad" faculty. There is just the "Anthropology Department", or the"Economics Department" or the "Mathematics Department" etc.</p>

<p>The only comprehensive, current deparmental rankings are those by USNews, with other rankings being either dated or very limited.</p>