Graduate Placement

The Department of Political Science at Boston College has a strong record placing our graduates and makes vigorous efforts to help our students find positions.

Our recent graduates have received numerous tenure-track professorships. Over the last ten years BC grads have taken tenure-track positions at, among others, Holy Cross, Michigan State, Middlebury, St. John’s College, and Syracuse, Tufts, the University of Dallas, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Utah.

Our doctoral students have also distinguished themselves in securing prestigious postdoctoral fellowships. Over the last decade, our graduates have held postdocs at Columbia, Emory, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, among other institutions.

Beyond the academy, our graduates have taken on prominent leadership roles in public life, including: President and CEO of the George W. Bush Presidential Center; Director of the Great Hearts Institute for Classical Education; Executive Director of the American Political Tradition Project at the Jack Miller Center; Vice President of the Sarah Scaife Foundation; Fellow and Executive Director of the Hudson Institute Political Studies Program; Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University; and President of the Bill of Rights Institute.

Our alumni also direct academic centers at institutions such as Princeton and Clemson, and have built distinguished careers beyond academia at organizations including the RAND Corporation and the Congressional Research Service.

Below please find a list of all degree recipients from the past ten years for whom we have placement information. Positions reflect placements current as of April 2026 and will be updated as needed; please send any new information to Lauren Honig, the department's placement director, or to Nasser Behnegar, the department's graduate director