MA in Political Science

The focus of our graduate program is to train students for professional careers in political science, usually in academic institutions but also (and increasingly) in government agencies and nongovernmental organizations. In our graduate program, we emphasize the acquisition of substantive knowledge, methodological skills and communication tools that will allow the student to conduct cuttingedge research and to teach effectively.We aim to train political scientists with competence in the discipline as a whole, as well as expertise in specific subfields. To this end, we offer our students small classes on wide array of substantive and methodological topics. Our graduate students also receive a great deal of individual attention from faculty members, with many opportunities for collaboration and coauthorship.