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Majors & Minors
Pursue a degree or take courses in political science or international relations.
Alumni Showcase
Discover notable individuals with Rochester degrees in political science or international relations.
Graduate Studies
Receive the most rigorous training in pure and applied formal and statistical methods.
Department News
- Dept. of Political Science 2020 Commencement Ceremony posted
- Richard Fenno, a dear colleague, dies, April 21, 2020
- New Master's program in Political Science
- Alex Lee and PhD student Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra publish article on gender quotas in India
- Rochester PhD Lynn Vavreck elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Gretchen Helmke's article (with Levitsky) is most cited in Perspectives on Politics
- PhD alumnus Daniel Diermeier named Chancellor of Vanderbilt University
Recent PhD Placements
- Peter Bils — Vanderbilt University
- Zuheir Desai — Princeton University (post-doc) and IE School of Global and Public Affairs
- Andrea Morris — Washington University (post-doc)
- Rabia Malik — University of Essex
- Jeheung Ryu — Princeton University (post-doc)
- Sergio Ascensio Bonfil — University of New Mexico
- Chitralekha Basu — University of Cologne
- Emiel Awad — London School of Economics (post-doc)
New Faculty
- Dan Alexander — PhD University of Chicago, started Fall 2019
- Mayya Komisarchik — PhD Harvard, started Fall 2019
- Scott Tyson — PhD New York University, started Fall 2018
Alumni Network
Rochester alumni can be found in a range of fields, from law to business to education to government to sports. Explore the alumni network to make a connection!
Careers
We partner with the Gwen M. Greene Career and Internships Center to connect students with jobs, internships, research opportunities, and more.
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