trcook01

Thanks to everyone for the replies. I'm not too phased by the "top 10" comment -- I've already heard it from a good deal of people who are intent on telling me about how a PhD is a waste of time. This may need to be a new thread, but I was looking at the program at stony brook university. They look like they could offer a curriculum I would like, but I'm having trouble discerning if the program is well ranked(respected). When people say their program is top 10, top 25, etc. are they generally talking about NRC rankings, or what?

Hey All, I'm in the early stages of deciding what schools to apply to for my PhD. In talking with my advisors, I was encouraged to look for schools that specialize in areas of research that I want to study. I'm looking for a dataset (excel, or a decent website, or something of the sort), that has the areas of research for many poli-sci programs. Anyone know of any good resources -- does the NRC raw data have this(if so, anyone know where I can get my hands on the NRC data?). I found a table similar to the one I am describing(except for economics) at econphd.net I'm currently in a MPA program, and I decided early last fall to go for my PhD. I'm looking to specialize in the study of standards and standardization. Accordingly, I'm looking for econ, poli-sci, or public administration (I figure there's a lot of overlap for this type of study) programs that specialize in game theory, new institutional economic theory(which is much different from game theory I know), international development, or political economics. Any help would be great