Political Science and Government

Instructional content for this group of programs is defined in codes 45.1001 - 45.1099.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 1225 institutions across the United States, with a total of 139639 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

333

certificates awarded

Associate Degrees

2,167

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

41,131

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

2,000

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

750

degrees awarded

Other Awards

93,201

awards given

Top Schools for Political Science and Government

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	2,025
2	George Washington University Washington, DC	1,461
3	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL	1,449
4	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	1,329
5	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	1,319
6	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	1,224
7	University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	1,209
8	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	1,206
9	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ	1,204
10	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	1,194
11	University of Central Florida Orlando, FL	1,188
12	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	1,071
13	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	1,038
14	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	1,035
15	University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	990
16	Florida International University Miami, FL	981
17	American University Washington, DC	968
18	Georgetown University Washington, DC	963
19	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	870
20	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	867
21	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	849
22	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	846
23	University of Georgia Athens, GA	840
24	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	837
25	University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA	831
26	New York University New York, NY	780
27	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	777
28	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	774
29	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	735
30	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	726
31	University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO	718
32	University of Houston Houston, TX	702
33	Georgia State University Atlanta, GA	681
34	University of South Florida Tampa, FL	666
35	University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia, SC	636
36	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA	636
37	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	633
38	The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL	627
39	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA	627
40	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	615
41	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	612
42	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	607
43	University of Oregon Eugene, OR	591
44	George Mason University Fairfax, VA	588
45	California State University-Northridge Northridge, CA	582
46	William & Mary Williamsburg, VA	570
47	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	564
48	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	561
49	Liberty University Lynchburg, VA	558
50	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	546
51	San Diego State University San Diego, CA	543
52	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA	531
53	Boston University Boston, MA	531
54	North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC	531
55	California State University-Sacramento Sacramento, CA	531
56	Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH	522
57	Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA	522
58	Santa Monica College Santa Monica, CA	512
59	Arizona State University Digital Immersion Scottsdale, AZ	507
60	University at Albany Albany, NY	480
61	Syracuse University Syracuse, NY	477
62	Fordham University Bronx, NY	477
63	Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA	477
64	Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL	474
65	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, TN	471
66	Temple University Philadelphia, PA	465
67	University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC	462
68	Howard University Washington, DC	459
69	Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins, CO	456
70	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	453
71	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	453
72	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	450
73	Yale University New Haven, CT	450
74	Duke University Durham, NC	447
75	University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	444
76	Brigham Young University Provo, UT	438
77	University of North Texas Denton, TX	438
78	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	438
79	University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA	435
80	Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA	426
81	Texas State University San Marcos, TX	423
82	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	419
83	Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ	414
84	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	411
85	Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX	408
86	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	408
87	Northeastern University Boston, MA	408
88	Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL	405
89	Villanova University Villanova, PA	402
90	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	396
91	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	393
92	University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA	393
93	CUNY Hunter College New York, NY	393
94	Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	393
95	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	393
96	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	390
97	University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR	390
98	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	390
99	Binghamton University Vestal, NY	387
100	College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA	387