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Rankings Index • About the Rankings • Premium Online Edition • Log out Political Science (Ranked in 2001*)
Rank/School | Average reputation score (5 = highest)
1. | Harvard University (MA) | 4.9
2. | Stanford University (CA) | 4.7
| University of California--Berkeley | 4.7
| University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | 4.7
5. | Yale University (CT) | 4.6
6. | Princeton University (NJ) | 4.5
7. | University of California--San Diego | 4.3
8. | Duke University (NC) | 4.2
| University of California--Los Angeles | 4.2
| University of Chicago | 4.2
11. | Columbia University (NY) | 4.0
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4.0
| University of Rochester (NY) | 4.0
| University of Wisconsin--Madison | 4.0
15. | Ohio State University--Columbus | 3.9
| University of Minnesota--Twin Cities | 3.9
| University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill | 3.9
18. | Indiana University--Bloomington | 3.7
| Washington University in St. Louis | 3.7
20. | Cornell University (NY) | 3.6
| Northwestern University (IL) | 3.6
22. | Michigan State University | 3.5
23. | SUNY--Stony Brook | 3.4
| University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign | 3.4
| University of Texas--Austin | 3.4
| University of Washington | 3.4
27. | Johns Hopkins University (MD) | 3.3
| University of Iowa | 3.3
29. | University of California--Irvine | 3.2
| University of Maryland--College Park | 3.2
31. | Emory University (GA) | 3.1
| Rice University (TX) | 3.1
| Texas A&M University--College Station | 3.1
34. | New York University | 3.0
| University of Arizona | 3.0
| University of California--Davis | 3.0
| University of Virginia | 3.0
38. | Florida State University | 2.9
| Pennsylvania State University--University Park | 2.9
| Rutgers State University--New Brunswick (NJ) | 2.9
| University of Colorado--Boulder | 2.9
42. | Georgetown University (DC) | 2.8
| Syracuse University (NY) | 2.8
| Vanderbilt University (TN) | 2.8
45. | Brown University (RI) | 2.7
| Claremont Graduate School (CA) | 2.7
| George Washington University (DC) | 2.7
| University of Pittsburgh | 2.7
49. | Arizona State University | 2.6
| University of California--Santa Barbara | 2.6
| University of Georgia | 2.6
| University of Houston--Main Campus | 2.6
| University of Kansas | 2.6
| University of Notre Dame (IN) | 2.6
| University of Pennsylvania | 2.6
| University of South Carolina--Columbia | 2.6
57. | Brandeis University (MA) | 2.5
| University of Florida | 2.5
| University of Kentucky | 2.5
| University of Massachusetts--Amherst | 2.5
| University of Nebraska--Lincoln | 2.5
| University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee | 2.5
*This ranking was computed in January of the year cited, based on data from a survey sent out in the fall of the previous year.
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