Welcome to the Department of Political Science at the University of Mainz
A total of 2,030 undergraduates and graduate students are currently enrolled at the Department (last update: November 2011). In Political Science we have 660 students in the B. A. programme (416 as a major), 18 in the new M. A. programme and 749 in the old non-consecutive M. A. programme (357 as a major); in "Civics" for high-school teachers, we have 306 students in the B. Ed. programme, 24 in the new M. Ed. programme and 273 in the old non-consecutive "Staatsexamen" programme. In addition, several dozen graduates are currently working towards a Ph. D. in Political Science.
Profile
The Department of Political Science at Johannes Gutenberg University looks back on a history of more than four decades of politics as an academic discipline in Mainz. In the early 1960s, long before the social sciences became a recognized academic division of their own in German universities, two chairs for the "Science of Politics" were already established in Mainz - one in the Faculty of Philosophy, the other in the Faculty of Law. A decade later, these chairs were integrated into what became the Department of Political Science. Today, the Department is a vigorous entity, home of app. 30 faculty, all of whom are dedicated both to teaching and to research.