Thursday, April 23, 2009

2009 US News & World Report Rankings: Political Science

Just came out. Here are the rankings (or compare to 2006):
Top 50
1. Harvard U
    Princeton U
    Stanford U
4. Michigan U
5. Yale U
6. UC-Berkeley
7. Columbia U
    UC-San Diego
9. Duke U
    MIT
11. UCLA
     U of Chicago
13. U of North Carolina
     Washington U
15. U of Rochester
     U of Wisconsin
17. NYU
     Ohio State U
     U of Minnesota
20. Cornell
21. Northwestern U
     U of Illinois
     U of Texas
24. Texas A&M
     UC-Davis
26. Indiana U
     U of Washington
28. Emory U
     Michigan State U
     Penn State U
     U of Maryland
     U of Pennsylvania
33 Suny - Stony Brook
     U Iowa
     U VA
36 Rice
     UC Irvine
     Notre Dame
39 FSU
    GWU
    Georgetown
    Johns Hopkins
    U Pitt
    Vanderbilt
46 Brown
    U Arizona
48 Rutgers
49 UC Santa Barbara
    U Florida

Subfield:
American
1. Michigan
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Princeton
5. Yale
6. UCSD
7. Berkeley
8. OSU
9. Duke
10. Wisconsin

Comparative
1. Harvard
2. Princeton
3. Berkeley
4. Stanford
5. Yale
6. UCSD
7. Michigan
8. Columbia
9. UCLA
10. Duke

IR
1. Princeton
1. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Columbia
5. Michigan
6. UCSD
7. Chicago
8. Berkeley
9. Yale
10. MIT
10. NYU

Methodology
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Michigan
3. Rochester
5. Princeton
6. NYU
7. WashU
8. UCSD
9. Berkeley
10. MIT 

Theory
1. Harvard
    Chicago
3. Princeton
4. Yale 
5. Berkeley
6. Duke
7. Northwestern
8. Johns Hopkins
9. Columbia
10.UCLA 
    Notre Dame

7 comments:

wenchin said...

Thanks for the information, although MSU has fallen behind in the past three years. What a pity!

Gracie said...

UW is higher than UVA!! You should've $applied here so we could go to school together!!

Steven Liao said...

Well, it depends on my field and interests. Although UW ranks higher in general, IR is perceived better at UVA.

At least we went the the same elementary school for a year or two!!

Gracie said...

i guess elementary school counts... a little

choko said...

Hi, I'm an aspiring International Relations major. First of all i'd like to thank you for putting up this invaluable piece of information. Secondly I was wondering, would you happen to have the longer list for the International Relations sub category?, that would be extremely helpful.

choko said...

Hi, I'm an aspiring International Relations major. First of all i'd like to thank you for putting up this invaluable piece of information. Secondly I was wondering, would you happen to have the longer list for the International Relations sub category?, that would be extremely helpful.

Steven Liao said...

No problem. Just borrowing the original report and posting it here.

As for a longer list, US News and World Report only ranks the top ten of each sub-discipline. I'm also curious what a longer list would look like.