Why cast your only vote for the Department of Political Science at Ohio State?
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OSU's Department of Political Science is:

• Ranked 4th in the world for scholarly work.¹
• Among the top 13 political science departments in the country.²
• Recognized as a leader in the Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP), one of the three largest research projects in the world focusing on elections across democratic nations.
• The school of choice for the 2006-2007 Beinecke Scholar recipient (one of only 20 in the nation) and Fulbright Award winners.

Leading faculty make a difference. A huge difference.

While friends and students at other schools will read our professors' works, our students will actually get to learn directly from the sources of cutting-edge scholarship. Consider these advantages in teaching:

• Twenty-five tenured faculty.
• Four University Distinguished Scholars.
• Nationally recognized experts in federal and state elections.
• Three University chair-holders.
• World-renowned international relations scholars.
• Eleven current or former editors of major disciplinary journals.
• leading specialists in the field of political psychology.
• 2007 Distinguished Teaching Award recipient.
• Three presidents on staff including president of the Peace Science Society, Midwest Political Science Association and the Society of Political Methodology.

Our students are in good company – and gaining great opportunities.

• Students can gain internships with the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House of Representatives. Ohio General Assembly. Republican or Democratic parties. Canadian Parliament. The Washington DC Academic Internship Program. State or national government. Political campaigns. Non-profit organizations. We cover it all and you get course credit as well as much-needed exposure to the job market.
• More than a quarter of all political science students are Honor students.
• Students can collaborate with each other and faculty as part of the Undergraduate Research Program.
• Student can participate in the Politics, Society, and Law (PSL) Scholars Program – a community of other scholars with an interest in contemporary legal issues offering selected classes with other scholars, career planning, one-on-one advising, mentoring, and faculty support, study abroad, professional development and networking opportunities. Learn more at http://www.honors-scholars.ohio-state.edu/psl/index.php.
• Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Honor Society for Political Science and the Undergraduate Political Science Organization (UPSO), are student-run organizations that sponsor speakers, provide forums for common interests and concerns of political science students, and take on community-based projects.
• As our world shrinks, the necessity to understand it grows. Through Study Abroad programs, our students study all over the globe focusing on elections, struggling democracies, civil war, civil unrest, international cooperation, globalization, emerging powers in the world today.

Pictured from left to right are recent political science study abroad students. Charlene Chi, NGOs and community development in Lima, Peru; Laura Tompkins, poverty and democracy, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Nafisa Akbar, female education and inequities, Dhaka and Khulna, Bagladesh; Kenneth Ferenchak, civil conflict resolution, Kampala and Gulu, Uganda.

¹ London School of Economics, Jan. 2004
² U.S. News & World Report, 200