Best Graduate Political Science Programs in US 2015
Ranked by US News
More US Graduate School Rankings
* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.
| Rank | School name | Score |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Harvard University
(Cambridge, MA, US) |
4.9 |
| #2 | Princeton University
(Princeton, NJ, US) |
4.8 |
| #2 | Stanford University
(Stanford, CA, US) |
4.8 |
| #4 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
(Ann Arbor, MI, US) |
4.7 |
| #4 | Yale University
(New Haven, CT, US) |
4.7 |
| #6 | University of California—Berkeley
(Berkeley, CA, US) |
4.6 |
| #7 | Columbia University
(New York, NY, US) |
4.4 |
| #8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Cambridge, MA, US) |
4.3 |
| #8 | University of California—San Diego
(La Jolla, CA, US) |
4.3 |
| #10 | Duke University
(Durham, NC, US) |
4.2 |
| #10 | University of California—Los Angeles
(Los Angeles, CA, US) |
4.2 |
| #12 | University of Chicago
(Chicago, IL, US) |
4.1 |
| #13 | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
(Chapel Hill, NC, US) |
4.0 |
| #13 | Washington University in St. Louis
(St. Louis, MO, US) |
4.0 |
| #15 | New York University
(New York, NY, US) |
3.9 |
| #15 | Ohio State University
(Columbus, OH, US) |
3.9 |
| #15 | University of Rochester
(Rochester, NY, US) |
3.9 |
| #15 | University of Wisconsin—Madison
(Madison, WI, US) |
3.9 |
| #19 | Cornell University
(Ithaca, NY, US) |
3.8 |
| #19 | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities
(Minneapolis, MN, US) |
3.8 |
| #21 | Northwestern University
(Evanston, IL, US) |
3.6 |
| #21 | University of Texas—Austin
(Austin, TX, US) |
3.6 |
| #23 | University of California—Davis
(Davis, CA, US) |
3.5 |
| #23 | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign
(Urbana, IL, US) |
3.5 |
| #25 | Emory University
(Atlanta, GA, US) |
3.4 |
| #25 | Indiana University—Bloomington
(Bloomington, IN, US) |
3.4 |
| #25 | Texas A&M University—College Station
(College Station, TX, US) |
3.4 |
| #28 | Pennsylvania State University—University Park
(University Park, PA, US) |
3.3 |
| #28 | University of Maryland—College Park
(College Park, MD, US) |
3.3 |
| #28 | University of Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia, PA, US) |
3.3 |
| #28 | University of Washington
(Seattle, WA, US) |
3.3 |
| #32 | Michigan State University
(East Lansing, MI, US) |
3.2 |
| #32 | Rice University
(Houston, TX, US) |
3.2 |
| #32 | Stony Brook University—SUNY
(Stony Brook, NY, US) |
3.2 |
| #32 | University of Iowa
(Iowa City, IA, US) |
3.2 |
| #36 | George Washington University
(Washington, DC, US) |
3.1 |
| #36 | University of Notre Dame
(Notre Dame, IN, US) |
3.1 |
| #36 | University of Virginia
(Charlottesville, VA, US) |
3.1 |
| #36 | Vanderbilt University
(Nashville, TN, US) |
3.1 |
| #40 | Florida State University
(Tallahassee, FL, US) |
3.0 |
| #40 | Georgetown University
(Washington, DC, US) |
3.0 |
| #40 | Johns Hopkins University
(Baltimore, MD, US) |
3.0 |
| #40 | University of California—Irvine
(Irvine, CA, US) |
3.0 |
| #40 | University of Pittsburgh
(Pittsburgh, PA, US) |
3.0 |
| #45 | Brown University
(Providence, RI, US) |
2.9 |
| #45 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick
(New Brunswick, NJ, US) |
2.9 |
| #45 | University of Colorado—Boulder
(Boulder, CO, US) |
2.9 |
| #48 | University of Arizona
(Tucson, AZ, US) |
2.7 |
| #48 | University of Georgia
(Athens, GA, US) |
2.7 |
| #50 | Binghamton University—SUNY
(Binghamton, NY, US) |
2.6 |
| #50 | Syracuse University
(Syracuse, NY, US) |
2.6 |
| #50 | University of California—Santa Barbara
(Santa Barbara, CA, US) |
2.6 |
| #50 | University of Florida
(Gainesville, FL, US) |
2.6 |
| #54 | Arizona State University
(Tempe, AZ, US) |
2.5 |
| #54 | Claremont Graduate University
(Claremont, CA, US) |
2.5 |
| #54 | University of California—Riverside
(Riverside, CA, US) |
2.5 |
| #54 | University of Kansas
(Lawrence, KS, US) |
2.5 |
| #54 | University of Nebraska—Lincoln
(Lincoln, NE, US) |
2.5 |
| #54 | University of South Carolina
(Columbia, SC, US) |
2.5 |
| #54 | University of Southern California
(Los Angeles, CA, US) |
2.5 |
| #61 | Boston College
(Chestnut Hill, MA, US) |
2.4 |
| #61 | Boston University
(Boston, MA, US) |
2.4 |
| #61 | George Mason University
(Fairfax, VA, US) |
2.4 |
| #61 | Purdue University—West Lafayette
(West Lafayette, IN, US) |
2.4 |
| #61 | University of Missouri
(Columbia, MO, US) |
2.4 |
| #61 | University of North Texas
(Denton, TX, US) |
2.4 |
| #61 | University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
(Milwaukee, WI, US) |
2.4 |
| #68 | American University
(Washington, DC, US) |
2.3 |
| #68 | Brandeis University
(Waltham, MA, US) |
2.3 |
| #68 | CUNY Graduate School and University Center
(New York, NY, US) |
2.3 |
| #68 | Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge
(Baton Rouge, LA, US) |
2.3 |
| #68 | University of Houston
(Houston, TX, US) |
2.3 |
| #68 | University of Illinois—Chicago
(Chicago, IL, US) |
2.3 |
| #68 | University of Massachusetts—Amherst
(Worcester, MA, US) |
2.3 |
| #68 | University of Oregon
(Eugene, OR, US) |
2.3 |
| #76 | Temple University
(Philadelphia, PA, US) |
2.2 |
| #76 | University at Albany—SUNY
(Albany, NY, US) |
2.2 |
| #76 | University at Buffalo—SUNY
(Buffalo, NY, US) |
2.2 |
| #76 | University of Connecticut
(Storrs, CT, US) |
2.2 |
| #76 | University of Kentucky
(Lexington, KY, US) |
2.2 |
| #76 | University of New Mexico
(Albuquerque, NM, US) |
2.2 |
| #76 | University of Texas—Dallas
(Richardson, TX, US) |
2.2 |
| #83 | Georgia State University
(Atlanta, GA, US) |
2.1 |
| #83 | New School
(New York, NY, US) |
2.1 |
| #83 | University of Oklahoma
(Norman, OK, US) |
2.1 |
| #86 | Northeastern University
(Boston, MA, US) |
2.0 |
| #86 | Washington State University
(Pullman, WA, US) |
2.0 |
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