About the Program
Graduate Study in Political Science at Purdue offers specializations in traditional fields such as AmericanPolitics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Public Policy, and possesses strengths in areas that cut across traditional fields, such as technology and governance, political methodology, political economy and development, political institutions and institutional reform, environmental policy, national security, human rights and political violence, and politics related to group identity and conflict.
Graduate students and faculty at Purdue participate in research labs and programs in the department, including the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), the International Politics and Responsible Tech (iPART) Lab, the Computational Social Science Lab, the Law and Conflict Research Lab, and the labs associated with the Purdue Program on American Institutional Renewal.
Students and faculty also participate in Purdue’s many interdisciplinary research centers and collaborative groups on campus including the Center for CSPAN Scholarship and Engagement, the Institute for a Sustainable Future, the Purdue Policy Research Institute. Students receive rigorous training in a wide range of research methods in the department and through workshops, coursework, and speakers in the cross-college initiative Advanced Methods at Purdue (AMAP).
Generally, the department only admits students to the M.A. program who are interested in pursuing both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Students who apply with a Bachelor’s degree or an M.A. in another field will complete the M.A. in political science as part of the curriculum of the M.A./Ph.D program.
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