Political Science Yale vs Harvard

posterX
Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:08:08 +0000

Dr. Avrah, I think the statistic you are looking for is in here (from wiki):

The Boston Globe wrote that “if there’s one school that can lay claim to educating the nation’s top national leaders over the past three decades, it’s Yale.”

Yale alumni have been represented on the Democratic or Republican ticket in every U.S. Presidential election since 1972.

Yale-educated Presidents since the end of the Vietnam War include Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and major-party nominees during this period include John Kerry (2004), Joseph Lieberman (Vice President, 2000), and Sargent Shriver (Vice President, 1972). Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Howard Dean (2004), Gary Hart (1984 and 1988), Paul Tsongas (1992) and Jerry Brown (1976, 1980, 1992) and others. Yale Law alumna Hillary Rodham Clinton is considered a front runner for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination. Vice President Dick Cheney also attended Yale (for 3 semesters).

Yale has also produced an unusual number of U.S. ambassadors; at one recent point, the ambassadors to China, Russia, France, and the United Nations were all Yale alumni. Yale also produced a President of Mexico.

More recently, Yale has become a center for studying grand strategy, a catch-all phrase meant to encompass military history, statesmanship, leadership, and other disciplines thought useful for future American leaders. Each year the renowned professors Charles Hill, Paul Kennedy and John Lewis Gaddis teach a year-long seminar in grand strategy to a highly selective group of graduate and undergraduate students with the aim of preparing them for wielding power in government, business and public life. Students of the seminar are encouraged to network with one another and with guest speakers and participants. Grand Strategy alumni organizations have already sprung up in Washington, D.C. and New York City.