UC Davis Department of Political Science

Unless you’re going to grad school to teach, a Political Science degree won’t help you that much. It’s just another degree that tells employers you can make a commitment and follow through. In terms of applicable job skills, it won’t really help you. However, their Sacramento program is pretty good so definitely try to get as many internships in as you can during your 4 years here. It’ll be much easier for you to find a job after graduation.
Most of the professors are pretty chill but oHmYGOOODNESS Poli Sci students are the snobbiest-​egotards ever. Students get into debates on the stupidest things. Some debates are pretty good and can be pretty intense. I’ve seen a guy almost breaking a girl down into tears on immigration.
I had enough of poli sci BS my 2^nd year and thankfully I finished all the major requirements as well so I double major in design — a lot more cute girls in that one ;)

When I left the University of Georgia, MA in hand, I was intellectually adrift, spiritually decentered, financially troubled, and morally bankrupt. Like so many graduate students out there, I lacked the knowledge to move ahead in today’s modern world. Thank goodness for the UC Davis Department of Political Science, which provided me with the useless and thoroughly impractical skills that are absolutely not required by the go-​go world of today!
It seemed like every time I applied for a job, I wasn’t asked about my knowledge of maximum likelihood estimation techniques. No one ever inquired whether I knew how to estimate reliable coefficients even with heteroskedastic residuals. I was absolutely never asked a question about what Density Function is appropriate for overdispersed count data. I don’t think I ever got through an interview without failing to talk about fixing first-​order autocorrelation. Man, they NEVER ask that one!
Thanks to the UC Davis Department of Political Science, though, I can parrot back dense mathematical formulae and impenetrable jargon with incredible accuracy! Do you want to know about two-​stage bargaining models? What about Nash equilibria? I can drone uselessly on about these things for hours! Have you ever wondered what the difference between fixed and random effects models is, or whether you should use a one-​tailed or two-​tailed hypothesis test? Just ask me: this knowledge haunts my dreams! Try as I might, I’m actually unable to forget it!
I know what you’re thinking: «This sounds great and all, but how can all this ‘political science’ help me find love?» Here’s the good news: UC Davis not only has the latest, state-​of-​the-​art statistical training (which, incidentally, makes for great first date conversation), but also offers an acculturation program so comprehensive and so thoroughly suffocating that it makes Chairman Mao’s «re-​education» programs look like grade school civics class. After you’ve mastered the social norms of academia, you’ll have to beat the women back with your dog-​eared copy of «The Logic of Collective Action!»
If academics are known for anything, it is for being socially well adjusted. At UC Davis, you’ll unlearn all those destructive and indecorous social practices you once thought were «cool,» and learn what real coolness is. Lessons include: ogling undergrads, awkwardly flirting with undergrads, making weird conversation with undergrads, staring at your shoes, mastering the limp handshake, and integrating hopelessly outdated pop culture references into your lectures. Enroll soon, and you’ll have access to the upcoming lecture series on personal hygiene and style. I am told that «Tie-​dyes and Tevas: Hot Styles for Spring» is not to be missed, and that «Sebagos and Braided Belts: Completing the Look» is positively life-​changing!
If you want to stare blankly at an uncertain and unfulfilling future, or if you’re satisfied to wander aimlessly in a Chinese maze of empty technique, or even if you just want to be privy to the degrading and preposterous minutiae of systematic empirical research, then give the UC Davis Department of Political Science a look. They’ve got the skills you’ll never need for the 21^st Century!