Top Political Science Schools in the U.S.

Ranking Political Science Schools Location
1 Harvard University Cambridge, MA
2 Princeton University Princeton, NJ
3 Stanford University Stanford, CA
4 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
5 Yale University New Haven, CT
6 University of California: Berkeley Berkeley, CA
7 Columbia University New York, NY
8 University of California: San Diego La Jolla, CA
9 Duke University Durham, NC
10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
11 University of California: Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
12 University of Chicago Chicago, IL
13 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
14 Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO
15 University of Rochester Rochester, NY
16 University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI
17 New York University New York, NY
18 Ohio State University: Columbus Campus Columbus, OH
19 University of Minnesota: Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN
20 Cornell University Ithaca, NY
21 Northwestern University Evanston, IL
22 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL
23 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX
24 Texas A&M University–College Station College Station, TX
25 University of California: Davis Davis, CA
26 Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington, IN
27 University of Washington Seattle, WA
28 Emory University Atlanta, GA
29 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
30 Penn State University Park University Park, PA
31 University of Maryland: College Park College Park, MD
32 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
33 State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY
34 University of Iowa Iowa City, IA
35 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
36 Rice University Houston, TX
37 University of California: Irvine Irvine, CA
38 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN
39 Florida State University Tallahassee, FL
40 George Washington University Washington, DC
41 Georgetown University Washington, DC
42 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
43 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO
44 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
45 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
46 Brown University Providence, RI
47 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ
48 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ
49 University of California: Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA
50 University of Florida Gainesville, FL