The Department of Political Science at Indiana University is one of the leading political science departments in the United States, consistently ranking among the top twenty in various surveys. The department was founded in 1913, has offered the Ph.D. since 1915, and has granted more than 500 doctorates to date. Alumni hold academic appointments at major research universities and liberal arts colleges as well as prominent positions in the public and private sectors. It is a medium-size department, consisting of 30 faculty members, about 100 graduate students, and approximately 500 undergraduate majors.
Students have access to additional departmental and university computing facilities as well.