硕士的候选人可以选择论文选题（需要30个小时的研究生课程工作加上论文），也可以选择非论文选题（需要33个小时的研究生时间和一份书目论文）。MA计划通常需要两年才能完成。研究生可以通过两种计划来获得文学硕士学位：计划I需要30个小时的课程工作和6个小时的硕士论文时间；计划II则需要33个小时的课程工作，以及3小时的书目征文时间。鼓励硕士政治科学专业的学生根据以下四个重点之一来计划学习：美国政治，比较政治，政治分析和政治理论。下面分别介绍其中的每一个。学生也可以在研究生院主任的允许下创建自己的集中课程。其余时
The department offers programs of study leading to the Master of Arts degree in political science and the Master of Arts degree in public administration. For more information about the Master of Arts degree in public administration, refer to the public administration program in this section of the catalog. Course offerings in political science cover the following general topics: American politics, public policy, public administration, public law, political theory, research methods, and comparative politics. Candidates for the M.A. may elect either a thesis option, which requires 30 hours of graduate course work plus a thesis, or a non-thesis option, which requires 33 graduate hours and a bibliographic essay. The M.A. program usually takes two years to complete.