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.

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.