| Rank | Top Political Science Graduate Programs |
| 1 | Stanford University Stanford, CA |
| 2 | University of California: Berkeley Berkeley, CA |
| 3 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA |
| 4 | Yale University New Haven, CT |
| 5 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ |
| 6 | Columbia University New York, NY |
| 7 | Duke University Durham, NC |
| 8 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL |
| 9 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY |
| 10 | New York University New York, NY |
