Benjamin Schmidt and Matthew Chingos have recently published an article on such a ranking in PS. The article ranks programs by how their graduates from 1990 to 2004 have placed. It compares these scores with the (rather old) NRC rankings. If you’re very interested in the mechanics of the measure then you should read the article, but I’ll post some results here. Drum roll please ….
Top 25 Political Science Programs Based on Placement of Graduates (Table 1; per capita weighted influence score)
- Harvard
- Stanford
- Michigan
- Rochester
- Chicago
- California, Berkeley
- Duke
- UCLA
- Northwestern
- California, SD
- MIT
- Yale
- Princeton
- Cornell
- Columbia
- Washington University
- Michigan State
- Ohio State
- Emory
- UNC
- Penn
- Florida State
- Johns Hopkins
- Brandeis
- University of Washington
There are certainly some surprises here (at least for me), and I’m guessing that a number of people will have a problem this method of assessing a program’s quality/prominence/merit. By the way, notice how I extended the list to “top 25″ so as to encompass my alma mater 
Jeff
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