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Political Science

Ranked in 2017 | Political Science Rankings Methodology

Political science is a discipline that combines history, current events and analysis. Graduate students are often able to specialize in a certain area of politics. These are the best political science programs. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.

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Rank	School name	Score
^#1Tie Overall Score:	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	4.9
^#1Tie Overall Score:	Stanford University Stanford, CA	4.9
^#3 Overall Score:	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	4.8

^#4Tie Overall Score:	University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA	4.7
^#4Tie Overall Score:	University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	4.7
^#4Tie Overall Score:	Yale University New Haven, CT	4.7
^#7Tie Overall Score:	Columbia University New York, NY	4.5
^#7Tie Overall Score:	Duke University Durham, NC	4.5
^#9Tie Overall Score:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	4.3
^#9Tie Overall Score:	University of California—San Diego La Jolla, CA	4.3
^#11 Overall Score:	University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	4.2
^#12Tie Overall Score:	New York University New York, NY	4.1
^#12Tie Overall Score:	University of California—Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	4.1
^#12Tie Overall Score:	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	4.1
^#15Tie Overall Score:	Ohio State University Columbus, OH	4.0
^#15Tie Overall Score:	University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI	4.0
^#17Tie Overall Score:	University of California—Davis Davis, CA	3.9
^#17Tie Overall Score:	University of Rochester Rochester, NY	3.9
^#19Tie Overall Score:	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	3.8
^#19Tie Overall Score:	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	3.8
^#19Tie Overall Score:	University of Texas—Austin Austin, TX	3.8
^#19Tie Overall Score:	Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO	3.8
^#23 Overall Score:	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	3.7
^#24Tie Overall Score:	Emory University Atlanta, GA	3.5
^#24Tie Overall Score:	Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX	3.5