Department of Political Science, Columbia University

The Department of Political Science at Columbia University was founded in 1880 and was the first of its kind in the country. Today it is one of the largest departments in the university, serving one of the largest undergraduate majors on campus and annually attracting an elite group of graduate students. Its faculty includes leaders and prizewinners in every subfield in the discipline. Its graduates are leaders in global and domestic private and public sector organizations and professors in world-class colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad.  The Department of Political Science offers two programs, a freestanding, one-year program leading to the Master of Arts degree in political science and a program leading to the Doctor of Philosophy in political science, which is to be completed in no more than seven years. The graduate programs of the Department of Political Science are offered within the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and provide advanced study and research opportunities primarily for students who intend to pursue careers in research, scholarship, teaching, and public life. The department, like the discipline of political science generally, is organized into four major subfields: American politics, comparative politics, international relations, and political theory. Studnets select a major and minor field from among these, or they may minor in economics or research methods. All students in the department must fulfill a requirement in statistical, mathematical and analytical methods. Columbia University