Graduate Program

The Political Science graduate program at UC Davis is a nationally ranked Ph.D. granting program with excellence across the subfields in Political Science. Our department prioritizes collaboration, camaraderie, and a diversity of perspectives and methodologies that help foster innovative research. On a per-person basis, our faculty has been ranked the 6th most productive nationally and the top UC Political Science department according to this study of research productivity from 1990 to 2018.