Department of Government

ScienceWatch.com ranked universities according to the 'number of papers to the field of political science & public administration over a recent five-year period.' Georgetown came in fourth, behind only Harvard, Berkeley and Columbia.

For more details, see http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/08/mar16-08_1/

This continues the strong trajectory for the Government Department, which rose dramatically since the early 1990s in the Hix Global Ranking of Political Science Departments