Undergraduate Program

Pursuing a degree in political science helps students understand how politics operate in different settings and forms. The curriculum includes learning about campaigns and elections, political parties, and institutions like the Presidency, Congress, and the courts, but it is also much broader. Political science classes cover topics like leadership and decision-making, conflict and cooperation, public and organizational policymaking and much more. Because politics happens in many places and in many ways, studying political science prepares students to be effective in a wide range of settings, from government to the community to the workplace.

Earning a degree in political science from Montana State University provides students with opportunities to develop:

• Disciplinary knowledge of American politics, international relations, public administration and policy, political theory and comparative politics
• Hard skills in areas including data analytics, complex systems analysis, policy analysis, and program evaluation
• Soft skills comprising the ability to communicate across different audiences and using a variety of platforms, formal and informal leadership, and critical thinking.