Political Science, MA

专业介绍

The Department of Political Science offers graduate study leading to a Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Science. The department admits students only for the PhD program, but a master’s degree may be obtained en route to the PhD.

The PhD is earned through a combination of coursework and dissertation and the program is designed to provide students with both general training in political science and the opportunity to specialize in their areas of interest. UW–Madison is one of the world’s top places to earn a doctorate in political science, with excellence in all subfields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, and Political Methodology. As a large department, we offer training in a wide range of skills— everything from causal inference to formal modeling, Bayesian statistics, and qualitative methods. We pride ourselves on our intellectual and methodological pluralism and have a well-deserved reputation for high quality scholarship, access to faculty, and collegiality.