Political Science, PhD at George Mason University

The doctoral degree in political science program is designed to prepare students for teaching and conducting research about government, careers in government and politics, and work in domestic and international nongovernmental organizations. The program allows students to combine their academic education with experience in the kinds of complex domestic and international political organizations they are studying. This model for political science education, patterned after the American Political Science Association's Congressional Fellows Program, is designed to foster scholarship and a firsthand understanding of domestic and international institutions such as think tanks, international bodies, nongovernmental organizations, journals of political opinion, and congressional and executive branch offices.

Faculty: Schar School of Policy and Government  |  Duration: 72 credits  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Fairfax, VA, United States

What you will study

Total 72 credits. Curriculum courses listed include Political Theory; Comparative Politics; International Relations; Seminar in Theories of Public Administration; Policy, Politics, and American Government Institutions; Seminar in the Courts and Constitutionalism.

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