Best Political Science Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Plains States Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Plains States Region that made our Best Political Science Doctor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Political Science School for Your Doctor's Degree

The poly sci doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to political science students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of political science students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized political science related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for political science students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Plains States Region

As a result of missing data, we could not show you the political science quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Plains States Region that both offer political science and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Political Science rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Political Science ranking.

Best Political Science Colleges by State

Explore the best political science schools for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	199	4
Iowa	177	7
Missouri	175	8
Kansas	134	5
Nebraska	99	2
South Dakota	57	5

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Political Science Related Rankings by Major

One of 4 majors within the Political Science & Government area of study, Political Science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to UKWiki at English Wikipedia. More about our data sources and methodologies.