What is the best school for Political Sciences?
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Here is what a couple of my friends said\n1) one of the best programs in the nation for political science is Wellesley College. It's the best for liberal arts colleges and universities from my knowledge. I think Yale has a comparable program.\n2) Michigan State's James Madison is an excellent small liberal arts college within one of the largest universities in the country. I would definetly recommend anyone interested in political science to consider Michigan State's James Madison. \n3) georgetown\n4) schools on west coast that have good politcal science programs: \n\nStanford, Berkeley, UCLA, USC, Pomona College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Scripps College \n5) George Washington University - home of Crossfire on CNN, and adjunct profs who double as commentators on CNN and MSNBC. Incredibe opportunities to intern in DC at numerous government agencies. \n6) Spartan - Are you sure about Harvey Mudd? I thought they were primarily a science, engineering, and math college. I checked their website and the only majors listed were math, science, and engineering. They do have a department of humanities and social sciences but no professors of political science. They may have some good courses in areas related to political science but it appears that all of the social science courses are designed to provide a well-rounded education to engineering-science majors. \n7) Harvey Mudd is mostly science. Also, American is crap. Besides the fact that it is in DC, it has nothing going for it. George Washington is better, and Georgetown better still. Personally I think that Georgetown is probably the best school in the country for political science because it has an excellent program (it's called "government" instead of "political science" at Georgetown) AND it's in DC. If you want to study poli sci on a more theoretical or international level (in other words, if experience in Washington isn't that important for you) then obviously schools like Princeton or Stanford would be best. \n\nHope this helps!! Sorry.
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The University of New Haven in Connecticut is quite good.  http://admissions.newhaven.edu/PROF/ugrad.cfm\n\nThey have excellent programs and professors. One of their professors (Professor Henry Lee, I believe) is probably one of the most famous and well-respected criminal justice experts and consultants in the world. He is always being interviewed on CNN and other news shows for his expertise. He has written a number of books. I believe he worked on the OJ Simpson case amongst others.
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The best marketing programs are at the best business schools.  On an undergraduate level, the best B-Schools are Wharton, MIT and UC-Berkeley.  Only one of them is in California.\n\nUCLA, USC and UC-Davis all have ranked business schools.  Stanford is the best business school in California -- but it does not grant undergraduate degrees.
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Probably the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard or a social science major at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
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Western and Queen's are both considered party schools.  \nALL universities are considered party schools. Both have a great reputations for their academics.  Pick based on which program suits you the best.
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The London School of Economics and Political Science\n\n\nwww.lse.ac.uk
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oh please...minnesota.  anybody who's got the chance to go to uw or u of m alwayas goes to wisconsin.  madison is the number one party school in the nation, the 16th best university in the WORLD...(minnesota is somewhere in the 30's)...bottom line...you'll learn more and have more fun here than any place in the world.\n\ntrust me
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London School of Economics is the top dog.\n\nAlso:\n\nQueen Mary\n\nKings\n\nCity
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It depends on what you wish to do. \nThe US, as a very active country on the political scene, probably is not the best place for a political sciences future professor. How ever, there is an growing need for good political sciences professors in the good old Europe. \nNot all political science graduates end up in the academic field, some of them would choose political analysis of the present political life of their country. Some would be chosen for political counseling of important political figures.\nI share a similar problem. I am a first year student in the Political and Adminitrative Sciences. Know what? If you want, we could help each other. Give me an e-mail and we'll talk. \nGood luck!!! (Keep me posted, will you, with what you choose to do?)
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Hands down, Oxford University (in the UK, in case there are others with the same name somewhere else).
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The University of Wisconsin. UW Madison's geography department is one of the best in the United States. It is also a very good school if you are looking into cartography.\n\nGood luck!
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In an effort to provide a less cynical answer than the previous responders...\n\nYou should definitely take some political science courses; comparative and international relations are pretty fun, in your case, also courses on elections/democracies and American political ideologies assuming you're in the US.  Philosophy courses in things like ethics and morals are good, too.  A few public policy courses and speech can't hurt either since you'll be one of the people creating them.  And now, for my little bit of cynicism, take an accounting/finance course so you won't think that debts/deficits just disappear on their own.\n\nThat said, you should still take a few engineering courses (I intend to major in public policy and political science and minor in computer science); it gives you additional expertise in a particular area (so you'll know the Internet isn't composed of a bunch of little tubes).  I find the sciency people to be more concrete and consequently more fun and hang out with a lot of them.\n\nI hope you become a politician who isn't afraid of a few ethics and morals (and liberal would be nice too, but genuine commitment to democracy and your constituents is more important).
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Political Science....PolySci.  It would be a major to afford avenues into many meaningful professions.  Law, news, politics and many more.
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Don't know about Poli Sci, but for Econ:\n\nThe Economist and The Financial Times are about the best all around for news and info on Economy.
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Political Science and Economics
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Check out USC (University of Southern California). I graduated from there with a degree in International Relations and I loved it. Most of the professors have written the books that you use in a majority of the International Relations courses taught across the country in other universites. The curriculum is very focused and the school is smaller than the others at the University so you can get the personal attention and access to the professors that many other big programs cannot offer you.
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In the east, Columbia University, Brandeis University, Hunter College (CUNY), Smith College, and Bryn Mawr have the most highly ranked Master's level programs in Social Work.  (Brandeis' program is in Social Policy, which means it's the best for administration-directed folks.)\n\nBelow is a link to a ranking of MSW programs nationwide.  This is the Gourman Report ranking, published by the Princeton Review.  Make sure to read the information about the Gourman Report, too.  There's a link to this info on the page below.\n\nBest wishes!