Placement History
Awards and Prizes
Our graduate students have
also earned many prestigious
awards and prizes.
Our graduate students have
also earned many prestigious
awards and prizes.
Recent Dissertations
View our graduate students'
recent dissertations.
Political Science PhD graduates from the University of Minnesota have placed in a variety of academic or academic-related appointments, including tenure-track or tenured academic appointments at major state flagship universities, elite private universities, and leading liberal arts colleges, as well as at smaller regional, state university branch campuses. A small but growing number of students use their PhDs to pursue non-academic research careers in government, the private nonprofit sector and NGOs, and business.
Political science graduates have found homes at a variety of academic institutions and businesses around the globe, including:
- Albert Magnus College
- Albion College
- American University
- Arizona State University
- Ateneo de Manila University
- Barnard College
- Berea College
- Bilgi University
- Bogazici University, Turkey
- Bucknell University
- Carleton College
- Colby-Sawyer College
- College of the Holy Cross
- College of Wooster
- Dartmouth
- Duke University
- East China Normal University
- Elon University
- European University Institute, Firenze
- Exeter College
- Florida State University
- Furman University
- George Washington University
- Gothenburg University, Sweden
- Gustavus Adolphus College
- Hamilton College
- Hamline University
- Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
- High Point University
- Indiana University
- Iowa State University
- Istanbul Sehir University
- Istanbul Technical University
- Izmir University
- John Jay College
- KOC University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Laborers' International Union of North America
- Loyola University
- Loyola University, Maryland
- McMaster University
- Miami University
- Middle Tennessee State University
- Middlebury College
- Naval Academy
- New York University
- Newcastle University
- Oberlin College
- Ohio Wesleyan University
- Oklahoma State University
- Oxford University
- Pacific University
- Purdue University
- Randolph College
- Rhodes College
- San Diego State University
- San Francisco State University
- Simmons College
- SOAS University of London
- Southwestern University
- St. Olaf College
- Texas A&M University
- The Ohio State University
- Trinity College
- Tulane University
- Universidad de los Andes
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- University of Bristol
- University of British Columbia
- University of Cambridge
- University of Delaware
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Universidad de Lima
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- University of Michigan
- University of New Hampshire
- University of Nebraska Lincoln
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Puget Sound
- University of San Francisco
- University of Southern Florida
- University of St Andrews
- University of Texas Austin
- University of Tulsa
- University of Wisconsin Madison
- U.S. Bank
- Vassar College
- Wake Forest University
- Washington State University
- Wesleyan University
- Whitman College
- Willamette University
- Williams College
- Wooster University