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Most Popular Schools for General Political Science and Government Major & Degree Program

A general program that focuses on the systematic study of political institutions and behavior. Includes instruction in political philosophy, political theory, comparative government and politics, political parties and interest groups, public opinion, political research methods, studies of the government and politics of specific countries, and studies of specific political institutions and processes.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of California-Los Angeles 594 5% $34,620
2 University of California-Berkeley 373 3% $38,066
3 Florida State University 354 3% $22,168
4 Arizona State University-Tempe 335 2% $28,048
5 The University of Texas at Austin 331 2% $26,506
6 University of Central Florida 324 2% $22,548
7 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 299 2% $30,298
8 University of Florida 267 2% $21,211
9 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 267 2% $32,443
10 University of Maryland-College Park 264 2% $27,146
11 Ohio State University-Main Campus 263 2% $27,367
12 University of California-Irvine 260 3% $34,261
13 Columbia University in the City of New York 255 2% $76,856
14 Texas A & M University-College Station 246 1% $29,506
15 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 240 4% $23,811
16 Florida International University 236 2% $23,506
17 University of California-Santa Barbara 223 4% $36,659
18 George Washington University 220 3% $71,930
19 New York University 215 1% $73,566
20 Georgetown University 215 4% $73,840
21 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 204 2% $27,638
22 Santa Monica College 198 3% $2,888
23 University of Wisconsin-Madison 195 2% $26,025
24 Georgia State University 190 3% $26,014
25 American University 185 5% $66,268
26 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 181 2% $27,898
27 California State University-Long Beach 179 2% $24,738
28 University of Georgia 177 2% $26,688
29 University of California-Davis 176 2% $35,177
30 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 175 2% $26,834
31 University of Oregon 175 3% $27,366
32 University of Colorado Boulder 171 2% $31,044
33 California State University-Sacramento 169 2% $26,454
34 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 169 1% $30,102
35 California State University-Northridge 167 2% $22,969
36 University of Houston 167 2% $23,225
37 University of Connecticut 161 2% $32,404
38 Yale University 158 4% $73,900
39 Boston College 156 4% $73,092
40 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 156 2% $30,913
41 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 155 1% $36,652
42 University of Arizona 155 2% $29,217
43 The University of Alabama 155 2% $29,872
44 Miami University-Oxford 154 3% $33,229
45 Northeastern University 154 2% $70,592
46 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 154 2% $23,694
47 Harvard University 153 2% $71,650
48 University of California-Riverside 150 3% $35,242
49 San Diego State University 144 1% $29,318
50 University of South Florida-Main Campus 144 1% $23,320
51 SUNY at Albany 143 3% $26,734
52 Virginia Commonwealth University 142 2% $32,041
53 University of South Carolina-Columbia 140 2% $28,301
54 Florida Atlantic University 138 2% $24,235
55 University of Utah 138 2% $24,472
56 San Francisco State University 136 2% $27,480
57 Arizona State University-Skysong 135 2% $27,521
58 United States Naval Academy 133 13% N/A
59 Michigan State University 132 1% $28,862
60 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 132 2% $23,977
61 College of William and Mary 132 6% $39,221
62 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 131 2% $31,510
63 Dartmouth College 128 7% $74,359
64 Texas State University 127 1% $23,130
65 University of Pennsylvania 124 2% $74,408
66 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 122 1% $33,503
67 Cornell University 120 2% $73,904
68 University of Missouri-Columbia 120 1% $26,766
69 Binghamton University 117 3% $26,866
70 Liberty University 117 1% $40,075
71 Appalachian State University 115 2% $19,194
72 Brigham Young University-Provo 115 1% $18,776
73 University of Notre Dame 115 4% $71,801
74 Syracuse University 115 2% $70,636
75 Ohio University-Main Campus 114 1% $28,986
76 University of Virginia-Main Campus 114 2% $33,493
77 University of California-Santa Cruz 112 2% $36,217
78 CUNY Hunter College 110 2% $22,379
79 Loyola University Chicago 108 2% $61,328
80 Villanova University 107 3% $70,728
81 Wake Forest University 106 5% $71,638
82 University of Kentucky 104 2% $30,101
83 Stony Brook University 103 2% $26,091
84 University of Chicago 103 2% $78,555
85 DePaul University 102 2% $57,678
86 Temple University 101 1% $33,004
87 University of New Hampshire-Main Campus 100 3% $33,750
88 University of Southern California 99 1% $74,825
89 Princeton University 99 5% $70,900
90 University of Delaware 98 2% $29,342
91 California State University-Los Angeles 96 1% $26,139
92 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 96 2% $22,639
93 Fordham University 96 2% $74,265
94 Illinois State University 95 2% $29,758
95 Duke University 95 2% $74,339
96 Howard University 95 6% $44,651
97 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College 94 2% $30,360
98 Northwestern University 92 1% $74,649
99 University of North Texas 91 1% $24,712
100 University of North Florida 91 2% $21,384

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Political Science and Government, General program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.