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2023 Most Popular Online Political Science & Government Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

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Out of all the majors we analyze each year, political science and government was ranked #20 in the country. In fact 49,282 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Most Popular Online Political Science & Government Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to see which online graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Political Science & Government Graduate Certificate Colleges.

#1

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN

Our analysis found University of Memphis to be the most popular school for political science and government students who want to pursue an online graduate certificate in the Southeast Region . Located in the city of Memphis, UofM is a public college with a very large student population.

About 25% of the students majoring in political science at the school are women while 75% are male.

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The in-demand online graduate certificate programs at Florida International University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best political science and government schools in the Southeast Region . Located in the suburb of Miami, FIU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Read full report on Political Science & Government at Florida International University

#3

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

The in-demand online graduate certificate programs at Virginia Tech helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best political science and government schools in the Southeast Region . Located in the small city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a very large student population.

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Explore the most popular online political science and government colleges for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 1,199
Virginia 1,786
North Carolina 1,764
Florida 2,532
Tennessee 718
Kentucky 439
South Carolina 768
Louisiana 582
Arkansas 297
Alabama 566
Mississippi 294
West Virginia 290

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Political Science & Government is one of 12 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Political Science

Related Major Annual Graduates
Economics 49,055
Sociology 38,475
General Social Sciences 18,997
International Relations & National Security 14,306
Anthropology 11,415

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to UKWiki at English Wikipedia.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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