We present a list of the best universities in the world in the field of political science. The ranking includes only prestigious higher education institutions in Europe, Australia and Asia with the best academic programs in the field of political science. If you decide to study abroad, then our rating will help you navigate the variety of higher education institutions abroad and make your top foreign educational institutions, to which you decide to apply!
Foreign bachelor's and master's programs in the direction of Political Science are undergoing changes as a result of international crises. For these reasons, the best universities in the world in Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia are working on updating the curriculum and trying to reflect world trends in them.
Top universities abroad in the field of political science perfectly cope with this task and create relevant and popular courses of all levels: bachelor's, master's and doctoral studies. Graduates of the best political science universities in the world are implemented professionally at the micro and macro levels, participating in the conduct of domestic and foreign policy of the state.
Top 100 best universities in the world QS: Politics
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | Harvard University | 94,4 |
| =2 | Sciences Po | 92,1 |
| =2 | University of Oxford | 92,1 |
| 4 | Princeton University | 89,6 |
| 5 | LSE London School of Economics and Political Science | 89,4 |
| 6 | Stanford University | 88,7 |
| 7 | Cambridge University | 88,6 |
| 8 | Australian National University | 85,5 |
| 9 | Berkeley University of California | 85,3 |
| 10 | Yale University | 85,2 |
| 11 | National University of Singapore | 83,6 |
| 12 | King's College London | 83,3 |
| 13 | Columbia University | 82,8 |
| 14 | Leiden University | 81,7 |
| 15 | University of Chicago | 80,7 |
| 16 | New York University | 80,6 |
| 17 | Georgetown University | 80,5 |
| 18 | Soas, University of London | 80,4 |
| =19 | Luiss Guido Carli University | 80,2 |
| =19 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 80,2 |
| 21 | University of Amsterdam | 78,9 |
| =22 | Freie Universität Berlin | 78,7 |
| =22 | UCL | 78,7 |
| 24 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 78,6 |
| 25 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 78,5 |
| 26 | University of Toronto | 77,9 |
| 27 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 77,2 |
| 28 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | 77,0 |
| 29 | University of Edinburgh | 76,9 |
| 30 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | 76,7 |
| 31 | European University Institute | 76,1 |
| =32 | Central European University | 75,8 |
| =32 | Cornell University | 75,8 |
| =32 | George Washington University | 75,8 |
| 35 | The University of Sydney | 75,6 |
| 36 | Johns Hopkins University | 75,4 |
| 37 | Tsinghua University | 75,0 |
| 38 | McGill University | 74,5 |
| =39 | Peking University | 74,4 |
| =39 | University of Tokyo | 74,4 |
| 41 | University of Melbourne | 74,1 |
| 42 | University of British Columbia | 74,0 |
| =43 | Duke University | 73,8 |
| =43 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | 73,8 |
| 45 | Universite libre de Bruxelles | 73,7 |
| 46 | Yonsei University | 73,5 |
| =47 | Fudan University | 73,3 |
| =47 | University of Copenhagen | 73,3 |
| 49 | The University of Manchester | 72,9 |
| 50 | Aarhus University | 72,6 |
| 51-100 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | |
| 51-100 | American University | |
| 51-100 | Brown University | |
| 51-100 | Durham University | |
| 51-100 | Essex, University of | |
| 51-100 | HSE University | |
| 51-100 | Humboldt University of Berlin | |
| 51-100 | Jawaharlal Nehru University | |
| 51-100 | KU Leuven | |
| 51-100 | Kyoto University | |
| 51-100 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | |
| 51-100 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | |
| 51-100 | Lund University Sweden | |
| 51-100 | MGIMO | |
| 51-100 | Monash University | |
| 51-100 | National Taiwan University | |
| 51-100 | Northwestern University | |
| 51-100 | Queen Mary University of London | |
| 51-100 | Seoul National University | |
| 51-100 | University of Exeter | |
| 51-100 | University of Hong Kong | |
| 51-100 | The University of Queensland | |
| 51-100 | University of Sheffield | |
| 51-100 | University of Warwick | |
| 51-100 | Trinity College Dublin | |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | |
| 51-100 | Universidad de Los Andes | |
| 51-100 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | |
| 51-100 | Universidade Federal de São Paulo | |
| 51-100 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Bocconi University) | |
| 51-100 | University of Mannheim | |
| 51-100 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) | |
| 51-100 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | |
| 51-100 | University College Dublin | |
| 51-100 | University of Geneva | |
| 51-100 | University of Glasgow | |
| 51-100 | University of Gothenburg | |
| 51-100 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | |
| 51-100 | University of Notre Dame | |
| 51-100 | University of Oslo | |
| 51-100 | University of Ottawa | |
| 51-100 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| 51-100 | University of St Andrews | |
| 51-100 | University of Sussex | |
| 51-100 | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 51-100 | University of Vienna | |
| 51-100 | University of Zurich | |
| 51-100 | Uppsala University | |
| 51-100 | Victoria University of Wellington | |
| 51-100 | Waseda University | |
| 101-150 | American University of Beirut (AUB) | |
