Education in the USA

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  • What are the best 20 universities in the USA for studing the Political Science -- RUSSIAN STUDIES ???


  • Hello Pilgrim22-ga, It's been a while since I started with this project, but I think I finally reached the shore. As a search strategy, I used several combinations of the words "universities" "America OR USA OR United States" "political science" and "Russian studies". First, I can show you a list of 21 Universities that I found ranked as the top ones on the general criterion of "educational effectiveness": University of Michigan Yale University Harvard University University of California-Berkeley Stanford University University of Rochester University of Minnesota Princeton University University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Chicago Massachusetts Inst of Technology Univ of California-San Diego Duke University Univ of California-Los Angeles Cornell University U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Indiana University Ohio State University Washington University University of Iowa Michigan State University (You asked for the top 20, but the last two match scores). This ranking was obtained from PhDs.org Science, Math, and Engineering Career Resources (http://www.phds.org/ ), based on National Research Council data. You can find it at http://www.phds.org/rankings/rank.php?d=31&w1=5&s1=1&w2=0&s2=1&w21=0&s21=-1&w0=0&s0=1&w8=0&s8=1&w9=0&s9=1&w11=0&s11=1&w10=0&s10=-1&w12=0&s12=-1&w4=0&s4=1&w3=0&s3=1&w13=0&s13=1&w15=0&s15=1&w5=0&s5=1&w19=0&s19=1&w20=0&s20=1&w14=0&s14=1&w16=0&s16=1&w17=0&s17=1&w18=0&s18=1&submit=Continue+%3E But, as I said, this ranking was based on the single, general criterion of educational effectiveness. You can do better, customizing your ranking, according to your priorities, by choosing the criteria yourself at http://www.phds.org/rankings/getWeights.php?d=31 Based on information by the National Research Council, the ranking is generated according to the weight you give to the following criteria: Educational Quality Measures -Educational Effectiveness: Program is effective in educating researchers -Change in Quality: Program quality has improved recently -Median Years to Degree: The time required to earn a degree is low Faculty Reputation and Activity Measures -Faculty Quality: Scholarly quality of program faculty is high -% of Faculty Publishing: A large percentage of the faculty has published recently -Publications/Faculty: The average number of recent publications per faculty member is high -Citations/Faculty: The average number of recent citations of faculty's work is high -Gini Coefficient for Publications: The distribution of publications per faculty member is uniform -Gini Coefficient for Citations: The distribution of citations per faculty member is uniform -% Full Professors: A high / low percentage of faculty members are full professors Program Size Measures -Total Faculty: Faculty size is large / small -Total Students: The number of students in the program is large / small -Ph.D.s Granted: The number of Ph.D.s granted recently is large / small Funding Measures -% Faculty with Support: A large percentage of faculty have research support -% of Ph.D.s with RA's: A large / small percentage of recent Ph.D.s were supported by research assistantships -% of Ph.D.s with TA's: A large / small percentage of recent Ph.D.s were supported by teaching assistantships Program Composition Measures -% Female Students: The percentage of female students in the program is high -% Female Ph.D.s: A large percentage of recent Ph.D.s were granted to women -% Minority Ph.D.s: A large percentage of recent Ph.D.s were granted to underrepresented minorities -% US Citizen Ph.D.s: A large / small percentage of recent Ph.D.s were granted to U.S. citizens and permanent residents The system will give you back a ranked list. The one I did for ?educational effectiveness? reached 98 institutions. The sources mentioned for the ranking were: 1 National Survey of Graduate Faculty 2 Institutional Coordinator Response Data 3 Doctorate Records File 4 Federal Agencies 5 Institute for Scientific Information Another ranking for the top 100 universities in the field can be obtained at The Vanguard Rankings (?The top 100 Universities in the United States ranked by College Professors?)(http://www.jajnsn.com/socrates/index.html ). From the top 100 ranking for Political Science (classified as ?outstanding?, ?excellent?, ?very good? and ?good?, I post here the top 20, but you can see the complete list at http://www.jajnsn.com/socrates/politicalsci.html Outstanding: Harvard University University of California Berkeley Yale University University of Michigan Stanford University Excellent: University of Chicago Princeton University University of California Los Angeles University of California San Diego University of Wisconsin Madison University of Rochester Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Minnesota Duke University Cornell University Columbia University Ohio State University University of North Carolina Chapel Hill University of Texas Austin Indiana University As is stated in the webpage: The programs ?were ranked based on nationwide surveys of professors in Political Science and are an adaptation of data compiled by the National Research Council (?) these rankings reflect faculty reputations, largely citation patterns. In other words, the highest ranked programs in this discipline are those whose faculty research achievements were the most outstanding?. And: ?The above list is an adaptation of one of the 41 discipline listings from Appendix P of Change and Continuity: Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States (National Academy Press). Programs that placed below 100 have not been listed. Appendix P was resorted to construct listings of program majors by university, the framework mathematically for the Vanguard Rankings.? If you are interested in this source, it?s available for purchase at the National Academy Press website (see http://www.nap.edu/catalog/4915.html ). Conversely to the former service, this one doesn?t have a feature to customize the ranking by inputting your priorities. In this case, the parameters are previously fixed, therefore it?s very unlikely that this ranking matched exactly any of those that could be obtained at PhDs.org. However, I compared both lists, and despite the relative positions in them, found 16 coincidences: University of Michigan Yale University Harvard University University of California-Berkeley Stanford University University of Rochester University of Minnesota Princeton University University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Chicago Duke University Univ of California-Los Angeles Cornell University U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Indiana University Ohio State University Another famous source for different kind of rankings is the U.S. News and World Report (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm ). But for disciplines others than the ones they classify as , they only list for free the top 3. In the field of Political Science ? International Politics (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/phdhum/brief/polsp2_brief.php ) they are: Harvard University (MA) Stanford University (CA) Columbia University (NY) The rest of the ranking is only available if purchasing the Premium Online Edition. See its description at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/about/offerings_brief.php If I couldn?t find an actual ranking specifically for Russian Studies, y did find a list for universities (21 in the USA) who hold programs in that field, at a page from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: http://web.mit.edu/slava/guide/inst.htm Russian Studies Institutions (I post only those in the United States) Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy. Bucknell University Russian Studies. George Washington University Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. Columbia University Harriman Institute. Georgetown University Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. Harvard University Davis Center for Russian Studies. Indiana University?Bloomington Russian and East European Institute. International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies. Stanford University Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. University of California?Los Angeles Center for European and Russian Studies. University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies. University of Illinois?Urbana-Champaign Russian and East European Center. University of Kansas Center for Russian and East European Studies. University of Michigan?Ann Arbor Center for Russian and East European Studies. University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies. University of Virginia Center for Russian and East European Studies. University of Washington Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center. University of Wisconsin?Madison Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. Yale University Russian and East European Studies Program. Ten of them match with universities from the two rankings mentioned above: Columbia University Harriman Institute. Harvard University Davis Center for Russian Studies. Indiana University?Bloomington Russian and East European Institute. Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies. Stanford University Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. University of California?Los Angeles Center for European and Russian Studies. University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies. University of Michigan?Ann Arbor Center for Russian and East European Studies. University of Wisconsin?Madison Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. Yale University Russian and East European Studies Program. Additionally, you might want to visit the forums at College Confidential (http://www.collegeconfidential.com/index.htm ) There I found three threads related to the subject you are interested in: ?Political Science Schools? (http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?4/54790 ); ?Best undergrad schools for political science?? (http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?4/77576 ); and ?Top Political Science Schools?? (http://www.collegeconfidential.com/discus/messages/4/78279.html ) I hope this information meets your needs. For any clarification, please feel free to ask. Thank you for your question. Best regards, Guillermo







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