NRC Rankings in Political Science
1 Harvard 4.88
2 Cal Berkeley 4.66
3 Yale 4.60
4 Michigan 4.60
5 Stanford 4.50
6 Chicago 4.41
7 Princeton 4.39
8 UCLA 4.25
9 Cal San Diego 4.13
10 Wisconsin 4.09
11 Rochester 4.01
12 MIT 3.96
13 Minnesota 3.95
14 Duke 3.94
15 Cornell 3.85
16 Columbia 3.84
17 Ohio State 3.69
18 North Carolina 3.54
19 Texas 3.49
20 Indiana 3.45
21 Johns Hopkins 3.37
22 Northwestern 3.35
23 Washington 3.34
24 Washington (St. Louis) 3.29
25 Iowa 3.25
26 Virginia 3.24
27 Rutgers 3.24
28 Michigan State 3.24
29 Maryland 3.23
30 Illinois 3.20
31 Pittsburgh 3.15
32 Cal Irvine 3.14
33 Houston 2.96
34 SUNY Stony Brook 2.92
35 Arizona 2.89
36 Emory 2.88
37 Georgetown 2.85
38 Florida State 2.82
39 Colorado 2.78
40 Syracuse 2.77
41 Cal Santa Barbara 2.74
42 Penn 2.68
43 Arizona State 2.67
44 Notre Dame 2.66
45 Georgia 2.66
46 Cal Davis 2.61
47 George Washington 2.57
48 CUNY 2.57
49 Tufts 2.51
50 Hawaii Manoa 2.49
51 Wisconsin Milwaukee 2.48
52 Florida 2.48
53 Rice 2.43
54 Kentucky 2.42
55 Brandeis 2.41
56 NYU 2.40
57 South Carolina 2.39
58 Purdue 2.38
59 Massachusetts 2.37
60 American 2.37
61 Cal Riverside 2.36
62 Southern Cal 2.33
63 Nebraska 2.33
64 Kansas 2.33
65 Vanderbilt 2.32
66 SUNY Albany 2.32
67 Connecticut 2.31
68 SUNY Binghamton 2.27
69 Penn State 2.25
70 Denver 2.23
71 Oregon 2.21
72 SUNY Buffalo 2.06
73 Wayne State 2.04
74 LSU 2.02
75 Boston College 2.00
76 Oklahoma 1.94
77 Claremont 1.80
78 Missouri 1.79
79 Northern Illinois 1.77
80 Utah 1.74
81 Boston University 1.69
82 Cincinnati 1.65
83 North Texas 1.64
84 Howard 1.62
85 Temple 1.54
86 Tulane 1.49
87 New Orleans 1.45
88 Washington State 1.39
89 Tennessee 1.36
90 Texas Tech 1.20
91 Texas Dallas 1.18
92 Northern Arizona 1.17
93 Kent State 1.14
94 Fordham 1.12
95 Catholic University 0.95
96 Clark Atlanta 0.60
97 Idaho State 0.33