Department of Political Science

National Rankings


Political Science Departmental Rankings
Rank Quality of PhD Placements Placements at PhD Granting Departments Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index Journal Productivity Citations American Politics, Reputational Public Law, Productivity Public Law, Reputational Graduate Training, Productivity
1 Cal Tech Cal Tech Wash. U. Cal Tech UC-Irvine Harvard Stony Brook Ohio State Rochester
2 UC-San Diego UC-San Diego Harvard Stony Brook Harvard Michigan Ohio State (t) Berkeley Wisconsin, Milwaukee
3 Stanford Yale Yale Rochester Yale Stanford South Carolina Michigan State Iowa
4 Stony Brook Wash. U. Stony Brook Iowa Chicago Berkeley Michigan State Yale Michigan State
5 Harvard Stony Brook Illinois Houston Rochester Yale North Texas Wash. U. Stanford
6 Rochester UC-Irvine Kansas CMU UCLA Ohio State Houston (t) Wisconsin Wash. U.
7 Yale Harvard Maryland Mich. State Duke Rochester Kansas Stony Brook Indiana
8 Michigan Stanford Princeton Texas A&M Stony Brook Princeton Florida State Chicago Cal Tech
9 UC-Irvine Princeton UCSB Stanford Ohio State UCSD Geo. Wash. (t) Johns Hopkins Minnesota
10 Northwestern Chicago Virginia Georgia Michigan Wisconsin Wash. U. (t) Virginia Stony Brook
11 UCLA Minnesota N/A Ohio State Columbia Duke UNC-Charlotte Princeton Rice
12 Chicago Rochester N/A New Mexico Stanford Minnesota (t) Delaware (t) Emory Colorado
13 Emory Berkeley N/A UC-Irvine Michigan State (t) Indiana Emory (t) U. Mass. Loyola U.
14 Berkeley Michigan N/A UC-Riverside UC-San Diego UCLA UC-Davis (t) Stanford Michigan
15 Iowa Northwestern N/A Emory Oregon UNC-CH UNC-CH U. Washington Duke
16 Princeton Iowa N/A Rice UNC-CH Wash U. Minnesota (t) Northwestern Emory
17 Wash U. Rice N/A North Texas Pennsylvania Mich. State SMU (t) Harvard Yale
18 MIT Wisconsin, Milwaukee N/A Florida State Arizona Stony Brook So. Ill. Rutgers Vanderbilt
19 Minnesota Wisconsin N/A Minnesota Tufts (t) Chicago (t) Texas, No. Ill (t) Houston UC-Riverside
20 UC-Davis UCLA N/A Indiana Colorado, AZ State (t) Iowa (t) Columbia, LSU (t) South Carolina Berkeley

(t) = tied with school listed above it. Thus, in the U.S. News rankings, Chicago and Iowa are tied with Stony Brook.

Column Definitions
Column 1: Production-Adjusted Placements Scores, as reported by Fowler, Grofman, and Masuoka (2007), "Social Networks in Political Science: Department Attractiveness and Ph.D. Placement, 1960-2002," PS: Political Science & Politics (forthcoming) .
Column 2: Placements at PhD granting departments in terms of ratio success to total number of PhDs produced, 1966-2001, as reported by Grofman, Feld, and Masuoka (2005), "Direct And Indirect Influence Among Political Science Departments," Center for the Study of Democracy, Paper 05-14.
Column 3: Top Research Universities in the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Column 4: Major journal articles per faculty, from PS, Publication of the American Political Science Association, December 1998.
Column 5: Political science citations per faculty, from Diamond-Graham Dataset taken from 1995 NRC data.
Column 6: Reputational ranks, compiled by U.S. News and World Report, 1998.
Column 7: Articles per faculty in the top 3 political science journals, as compiled by Law and Courts, Winter 1999
Column 8: Reputational ranks, as compiled by Law and Courts, Summer 1998
Column 9: Major journal articles published by graduates of the program, divided by the number of graduates in the past three years, as reported by McCormick & Rice in the September 2001 issue of PS.