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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