A Political Science degree provides you with marketable skills that are relevant to many career fields and areas of graduate study. In addition, you’ll gain foundational liberal arts skills that are prized by 21st-century employers.
Marketable Skills
Ability to communicate
- Present ideas clearly, both in writing and verbal communication
- Turn data into useable information
- Argue and debate effectively
- Negotiate and mediate conflicts
- Listen critically
Planning + Development
- Organize information
- Conceptualize problems
- Implement strategies
- Make effective decisions
- Demonstrate leadership
Methods + Research
- Interpret and analyze data
- Discern good information from bad
- Perform basic quantitative analysis
- Use summary statistics
- Understand the basics of a reliable sample survey
- Employ effectively a variety of research sources, including the Internet
- Use computers with facility
- Design research
- Summarize findings
- Test theories and hypotheses
Analytical ability
- Interpret data
- Understand components of complex problems
- See problems from a variety of perspectives
- Synthesize themes from complex issues
- Think "outside the box"
- Think internationally
- Assess policy and propose options
- Analyze and solve problems systematically and logically
Group skills
- Work in a team and individually
- Develop consensus
- Interact effectively within a diverse environment
Our students find jobs
Alumni of our department have found jobs in a variety of industries.
My Political Science degree provided me with strong written and verbal communications skills, furthered my problem-solving and strategic abilities and provided an excellent introduction to government, campaigns and politics. My education helped prepare me for an initial internship on Capitol Hill, followed by work on political campaigns and then a career related to government, politics and non-profit management.
Gary Lindgren, B.A. 1991, Political Science, President of Cincinnati Business Committee/Cincinnati Regional Business Committee
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