Rank these schools by their Political Science programs

tk21769
Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:16:54 +0000

Here is the USNWR political science department ranking order:
Harvard
Yale
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt
Georgetown
Brown
University of Southern California
Boston College

The NRC/Chronicle ranking also would place Harvard first and BC last, fairly consistently, but shuffle up the rest depending on which criterion you emphasize. If you average all the NRC sub-factor rankings, you get:
Harvard U.
Yale U.
WUSTL
U. of Southern California
Vanderbilt U.
Brown U.
UPenn
U. of Virginia
Georgetown U.
Boston College

Those are graduate program rankings. For undergrads, they’re all good enough for PS (and otherwise) that for many students it would make sense to choose based on net price or personal fit.