The Department offers a variety of courses and program flexibility for students seeking academic careers as well as those seeking other professional career interests in political science. The Department seeks to recruit highly qualified students and to admit the strongest students from the pool of applicants.
Preference is given to students applying for admission to the doctoral program.
Approximately 20 students will be accepted into the graduate program each Fall. Applicants must provide transcripts, letters of recommendation, and scores from the Graduate Record Examination. Students seeking admission who have an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.5 and aggregate GRE scores of about 1900 are within the competitive range of admitted students. The M.A. program serves primarily as the first graduate degree for students seeking academic careers. Consequently students usually undertake a course of study that will lead to the doctoral program and pursue one of the broad fields that are also part of the doctoral program.