strongest poli sci department?

<p>i got accepted into ucla, ucsd and uci...somebody told me that uci has a very strong poli sci program (stronger than ucla) is this true? wut r the rankings?</p>

<p>this is true... UCI poli sci is ranked among top 20 in the nation.</p>

<p>Where can someone find the rankings of various schools in different departments such as the poly sci, philosophy,etc.?</p>

<p>I just came across this a few minutes ago</p>

<ol>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li><p>stanford</p></li>
<li><p>ucsd</p></li>
<li><p>uci</p></li>
<li><p>berkeley</p></li>
<li><p>ucla</p></li>
<li><p>davis</p></li>
<li><p>ucsb
95 ucr</p></li>
</ol>

<p><a href="http://www.politicalstudies.org/pdf/psr/hix.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.politicalstudies.org/pdf/psr/hix.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>page 12, this is from 1998-2002 however</p>

<p>And I don't really know how to take this information as i think I will be attending UCSB for poli sci instead of sd, irvine, or davis even though they're ranked higher.</p>

<p>Some more information I found referring to those rankings:</p>

<p>
[quote]
umm...i don't see why people are complaining? did any of you read the article...or did you all just scroll down to the numbered ranking?</p>

<p>the methodology is</p>

<p>50%: the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices.</p>

<p>40%: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member (using ISI data), and the ratio of faculty to students.</p>

<p>10%: library holdings (number of volumes)</p>

<p>so for example, if UCSD has a bigger library than princeton, has more people published in nature and science and highly cited researchers in "various fields" and has more international students and faculty...then obviously it would rank higher. Whats the argument? While to me, these means are useless, so is most of the data in the USNews ranking useless. What does freshman retention or % of students who graduate in 4 years matter to me? I didn't transfer after my freshman year, nor do i plan on being at school for more than 4 years...yet that accounts for like 40% of the ranking. What makes that "meaninful" in rankings.

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<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=333872%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=333872&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/history/graham/PoliticalScience.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/history/graham/PoliticalScience.htm&lt;/a>
- UCI #1
- UCLA #6
- UCSD #14</p>

<p><a href="http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/vol/tutkimus/arviointi/Hix-Rankings-30Jan04.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/vol/tutkimus/arviointi/Hix-Rankings-30Jan04.pdf&lt;/a>
-UCSD #6
-UCI #7
-UCLA #14</p>

<p>I kinda wish I hadn't seen these rankings, because now it makes my decision harder between ucsb and uci..</p>

<p>so would the logical choice be...to go to ucla over uci??</p>