Graduate Information

• Admission Requirements
• Application Process
• Master's Program
• Doctoral Program
• Funding Opportunities
• Fields and Reading Lists
• Current Students' Interests
• Ph.D. Alumni Listing
• Policies, Procedures, Forms
• Postings for majors

The Department of Political Science offers a graduate studies program leading to master of arts (M.A.), master of science (M.S.), and doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees. The program is designed to prepare students for teaching, research, and governmental or other public service and to enable them to understand and participate in public affairs.

Our faculty members are nationally and internationally recognized researchers in their fields. Regular members of the department and occasional visiting faculty members offer advanced courses and seminars in most fields of political science. Joint faculty-student studies, interdepartmental research projects, and individual research are being conducted in areas including elections and voting behavior, international political economy, rational choice experimentation and modeling, race and ethnicity, economic and political development, political parties, theories of justice, political and technological change in East Asia, and environmental politics.

Our graduate program admits between 5 and 10 students in any year with about 40 students in the program at any one time. Recent Ph.D. graduates have taken tenure-track positions at Bucknell University, Keene State College, Lehman College, North Carolina State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and Stony Brook University.