Best political science schools...

JohnnyK
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:14:15 +0000

Well I think Penn’s PSCI is good (certainly much better than it was a decade ago) though I am of course hopelessly biased.

I can also say that PSCI is and has been one of the few departments with which the School of Arts & Sciences has set the institutional goal (and accordant budget increases) of pushing into the uber-top-tier (other similarly-targeted departments include History, Econ)

I know their regional political scientists are particularly good (i.e. politics of South Asia, politics of East Asia), but don’t know enough about other psci fields.

penn people would usually focus on doing something interdisciplinary…liberally mixing a PSCI major/minor with wharton, econ, philosophy, history, sociology, a regional study, comm, etc.