Thank you, JMW and Amen!

You are welcome.

One final point: as academia continues its slow intellectual dissolution, conservative faculty increasingly found programs or centers that seek to restore or preserve a coherent curriculum based on a coherent sent of beliefs.

As such, large institutions that might otherwise look unattractively beholden to the postmodern species of Marxism often also feature small, well-constructed programs designed specifically to attract religious or conservative graduate candidates. To toot Notre Dame's horn again, I would cite the Center for Ethics and Culture, which injects a vitality into student and intellectual life at ND of great value. One may say something of the politics center at Princeton.

This observation slightly modifies my comments about finding one or two good faculty at any particular school. One faculty member with a well endowed center or institute would, obviously, make for a more promising graduate career than would three disaffected conservatives in an overwhelmingly liberal department. The latter might only have the consolation of satire to share with their students, whereas the former will almost inevitably help students meet sympathetic fellow travelers.

I hope this helps.

JMW, many thanks. I'll keep all of it in mind.

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Originally posted by INsage:
BTW - The University of Dallas has an excellent PhD program in Politics, but I was told, for some reason, that graduates don't get hired much.

I'm not sure what INsage is using for a source, but every single graduate (that is, those who want one--there are some who have become independent scholars) of UD's Ph.D. program has a job. The school has a remarkable placement record.

Greetings Cerfer. Do you know where I might find some hard numbers on this, and also on the average GRE scores of UD Politics Ph.D. students?