PhD Application — School List

Highly interdisciplinary research environment with particular strengths in comparative politics, political economy, institutions, and advanced quantitative methods.

Top-tier breadth across comparative politics, international relations, political economy, and methodology, with especially strong area-studies resources.

Broad and methodologically rigorous program with standout expertise in comparative political economy, Southeast Asia, institutions, and political methodology.

Leading program in comparative politics and international relations, with notable strengths in authoritarian politics, political economy, and research design.

Distinctively analytical program with leading expertise in quantitative political economy, formal theory, institutions, and international relations.

Strong in international relations and comparative political economy, with access to extensive regional institutes and New York-based research networks.

Broad program with strengths in comparative politics, development, race and ethnicity, political economy, and sophisticated quantitative research.

Particularly strong in international relations, comparative politics, political economy, formal theory, and quantitative methodology.

Strong interdisciplinary training in comparative politics, international relations, political economy, and formal and quantitative methods.

Broad strengths in comparative politics, international relations, political behavior, and methodology, supported by extensive interdisciplinary centers.

Broad strengths in comparative politics, political economy, international relations, political behavior, and rigorous multi-method research.

Strong in comparative political economy, authoritarian politics, conflict, and applied causal inference within a collaborative department.

Selective, close-knit program known for strong training in political economy, international relations, comparative politics, and formal and quantitative methods.

Distinctive concentration in formal theory and quantitative methodology, with strong applications to political economy, institutions, and international relations.

Strong in comparative politics, international relations, development, and political economy, with close links to interdisciplinary social-science research centers.

Strong in comparative politics, political behavior, institutions, and quantitative methods, with a collaborative and empirically oriented research culture.

Notable strengths in comparative politics, political economy, institutions, environmental politics, and quantitative methodology.

Strong in international relations, comparative politics, conflict, political economy, and advanced quantitative methods, with access to Washington, D.C. institutions.

Broad strengths in comparative politics, international relations, political psychology, and methodology, with substantial interdisciplinary research support.

Strong in comparative politics, international relations, political behavior, and quantitative methods, with an established culture of collaborative research.

Broad, quantitatively oriented program with strengths in comparative politics, international relations, political institutions, and methodology.

Strong in political economy, comparative politics, international relations, institutions, and rigorous quantitative and formal methods.

Notable strengths in comparative politics, authoritarian institutions, Southeast Asia, political behavior, and quantitative methodology.

Collaborative, interdisciplinary program with strengths in comparative politics, international relations, political economy, and climate and energy politics.

Strong quantitative orientation with expertise in comparative politics, international relations, conflict, institutions, and political methodology.

Policy-engaged program with strengths in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, security, and computational social science.

Known for formal theory, international relations, conflict, and rigorous methodological training, with an emphasis on analytically precise research.

Methodologically rigorous program with strengths in comparative politics, international relations, political institutions, and quantitative analysis.