Admission Sync

The main method for ranking departments in political science, through peer evaluations, is subjective, biased towards established institutions, and costly in terms of time and money. The alternative method, based on supposedly ‘objective’ measures of outputs in scientific journals, has thus far only been applied narrowly in political science, using publications in a small number of US-based journals.

An alternative ranking method is proposed by Simon Hix of London School of Economics. In the proposed method political science departments are ranked based on the quantity and impact of their publications in the 63 main political science journals in a given five-year period.

Rankings

1 Columbia USA

2 Harvard USA

3 Stanford USA

4 Ohio State USA

5 EUI Italy

6 UC, San Diego USA

7 UC, Irvine USA

8 Indiana USA

9 Princeton USA

10 Yale USA

11 UC, Berkeley USA

12 Michigan State USA

13 Chicago USA

14 UC, Los Angeles USA

15 LSE UK

16 Georgetown USA

16 Essex UK

18 MIT USA

19 ANU Australia

19 SUNY, Bimghamton USA

19 Oxford UK

22 Birmingham UK

23 Cambridge UK

24 Florida State USA

25 Sheffield UK

25 Washington USA

27 Michigan USA

28 Johns Hopkins USA

28 Texas A&M USA

30 Emory USA

31 Colorado USA

32 American USA

33 Pennsylvania USA

34 Bristol UK

35 UNC Chapel Hill

36 George Washington USA

37 Cardiff UK

37 UW Madison USA

39 Aberystwyth UK

40 TCD Ireland 

40 Vanderbilt USA 

42 Cornell USA 

43 Geneva Switzerland 

44 Illinois, Urbana-Champaign USA 

45 Rice USA

46 UCL UK

47 SUNY, Stony Brook USA

47 UC, Davis USA

49 Virginia USA

51 Duke USA

52 Oslo Norway

53 Claremont Graduate USA

54 Pittsburgh USA

55 Leiden Netherlands

56 Iowa USA

57 New Mexico USA

58 New York USA

59 Minnesota USA

60 George Mason USA

61 Hebrew, Jerusalem Israel

62 Arizona State USA

63 Hull UK

64 Maryland USA

65 Georgia USA

66 SUNY, Buffalo USA

66 Houston USA

68 Northwestern USA

69 Pennsylvania USA

70 Cal Tech USA

71 Southern California USA

71 Warwick UK

73 Tel Aviv Israel

74 Mannheim Germany

75 Strathclyde UK

76 Missouri USA

77 Washington USA

78 Aarhus Denmark

79 North Texas USA

79 Sussex UK

81 UW, Milwaukee USA

82 Aberdeen UK

83 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne UK

84 UC Santa Barbara USA

85 Glasgow UK

86 Leicester UK

87 Manchester UK

88 Rochester USA

89 Louisiana State USA

90 Birkbeck, London UK

90 Rutgers USA

92 Syracuse USA

93 Toronto Canada

94 Kansas USA

95 UC, Riverside USA

96 Bradford UK

97 Humboldt Germany

98 Western Australia Australia

99 Edinburgh UK

99 Leeds UK

101 Durham UK

102 Alabama USA

103 QMUL UK

104 Dartmouth USA

105 South Carolina USA

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