Ph.D. & M.A. Program in Political Science

CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5202, New York, NY 10016, Phone: (212)817-8670, Fax (212) 817-1532, email: politicalscience@gc.cuny.edu

The CUNY Graduate Program in Political Science consists of a community of scholars dedicated to the tasks of acquiring, expanding, and transmitting reliable knowledge about political phenomena. Its essential function is to educate professional political scientists, capable of independent research and qualified for careers in academic institutions, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and the private sector. Although the Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science features a diversity of approaches, all students are expected both to specialize in and to develop an understanding of the discipline as a whole.

Program Highlights

The CUNY Graduate Center's Political Science Program has been found to be in the "Top 20" in a new, nation-wide, study of political science doctoral programs.

Two members of our doctoral faculty have served as presidents of major national associations back to back: Professor Thomas Weiss has been nominated by the selection committee to serve as the President of the International Studies Association (ISA) in 2008-9 and Professor Frances Fox Piven has just completed her term as President of the American Sociological Association.

A recent study found that alumni of the CUNY Graduate Center's Political Science Program rank third in book productivity among all Political Science programs.