耶鲁大学博士学位。该计划在培养政治学领域的领先学者方面有着悠久的历史记录。（请注意：该系不提供独立的政治学硕士学位。有关杰克逊学院全球事务硕士学位的信息。）许多耶鲁大学的毕业生在政府，政治，非营利组织和私人机构也有过成功的职业部门。这种历史优势与强大的师资力量相辅相成，该系致力于深入培养当前的研究生以在当代政治学中取得成功。本系的优势之一是实质性和方法论多元化。单一的“Yale方式，“â€，以及我们的学生和教职员工都受到政治学子领域内和横跨政治学子领域的一系列问题的激励。在我们认识到这种兴趣的多样
Yale's Ph.D. program has a strong historical record of producing leading scholars in the field of Political Science. Many Yale graduates have also had successful careers in government, politics, non-profit organizations, and the private sector. This historical strength is matched by a strong faculty deeply engaged in training current graduate students to succeed in contemporary Political Science.One of the Department's strengths is substantive and methodological pluralism-there is no single ''Yale way,'' and our students and faculty are motivated by a range of questions in and across the subfields of Political Science. At the same time as we acknowledge this diversity of interests, the Department's curriculum is designed to ensure students have adequate opportunities to master the core tools of contemporary social science research, including a four-course sequence in quantitative methodology and research design (statistics), a two course sequence in formal theory, courses on experimental design, implementation, and analysis, and a training program in qualitative and archival methodology.The Department also offers training in five substantive subfields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Economy, and Political Theory. In each of these subfields, faculty regularly teach courses that expose students to both the foundational work in these areas and current active research topics. In many subfields, this training takes the form of formal or informal ''sequences,'' for example Comparative Politics I and II are taught each year. These classes are supplemented by topical seminars on selected and advanced topics.