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Ranked in 2013 | Political Science Rankings Methodology

For graduate students, political science is an area that combines history, current events, and analysis. Students are often able to specialize their degree to a certain area of politics. These are the best political science schools.

Rank	School name	Score
#36	University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA	3.1
#36	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	3.1
#32	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	3.2
#32	Rice University Houston, TX	3.2
#32	Stony Brook University–SUNY Stony Brook, NY	3.2
#32	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	3.2
#28	Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA	3.3
#28	University of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD	3.3
#28	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	3.3
#28	University of Washington Seattle, WA	3.3
#25	Emory University Atlanta, GA	3.4
#25	Indiana University–Bloomington Bloomington, IN	3.4
#25	Texas A&M University–College Station College Station, TX	3.4
#23	University of California–Davis Davis, CA	3.5
#23	University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL	3.5
#21	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	3.6
#21	University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX	3.6
#19	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	3.8
#19	University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	3.8
#15	New York University New York, NY	3.9
#15	Ohio State University Columbus, OH	3.9
#15	University of Rochester Rochester, NY	3.9
#15	University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI	3.9
#13	University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	4.0
#13	Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO	4.0

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