The Department of Political Science offers a program of study leading to the degree Bachelor of Arts. The department offers training in the areas of American government and politics, urban affairs, public administration and public policy, comparative politics and institutions, international organization and relations, political theory, and behavior and public law.  

The major program provides students with a basic education in the ideas, institutions and processes of politics and government, and provides preparation for careers in law, government service, public affairs and the private sector of the American economy. To be aware of the intricacies of government regulations and policies that affect their businesses, most major commercial and industrial firms need personnel who are knowledgeable in public affairs. Public sector employment continues to be a major source of careers for students with a background in political science. In addition, a prime area for students of public affairs is the nonprofit service sector.

The Department of Political Science also offers a minor in Nonprofit Studies and a five-year dual degree (B.A./M.P.A.) with the Department of Public and Healthcare Administration.

Our faculty conduct internationally recognized research and innovative, technologically-enhanced instruction. Grounded in practical experience but exploring the frontiers of their disciplines, they are models of academic excellence.

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Jubilee Hall. With six stories and more than 126,000 square feet of academic space, this structure provides a home for the Stillman School of Business, the College of Education and Human Services, the New Jersey Center for Civic and Law- Related Education and the Departments of Political Science, Psychology, Public and Healthcare Administration and Sociology and Anthropology. It contains 156 faculty and administrative offices and 30 teaching spaces, from seminar rooms that seat eight people to an auditorium seating 390. It also features a central, three-story skylit atrium where students and faculty can congregate informally. A major feature of the building is the technological capabilities it brings to the teaching and learning processes. These include fixed and flexible seating classrooms with the most contemporary information and distance-learning technologies that facilitate the transmission of lectures all over the world; laboratories with one-way observation mirrors; and classrooms with terminals for portable computers.

The University Libraries have notable resources, including extensive holdings of almost 700,000 book volumes, and 1,127 current periodical subscriptions, back-files of more than 6,500 serial titles, electronic access to full text articles in more than 25,000 journals, a broad selection of indexing and abstracting services in both digital and print formats, various microform collections, music CDs, and audiovisual aids.  A complete listing of database resources can be found at www.shu.edu/academics/libraries/.