Political Science (OLMA) - Online (2024)

Campus:

Virginia TechOnline (Virtual)

Type of Instruction:

Online Courses for Virtual Option

• The Master of Arts (M.A.) in Political Science was established in 1969. Currently the program enrolls approximately 60-70 off-campus in the online Master of Arts in Political Science Program (OLMA/PSCI).
• The department's relatively small scale provides excellent opportunities for close student-faculty interaction in the online M.A. programs of study.
• Our Blacksburg campus offers students the full services of the university, including an extensive library, technology support, and the Graduate Life Center for residential students.
• Participants in the online Master of Arts program complete their coursework over the Internet through asynchronously conducted online graduate courses.
  

• Department faculty is drawn from outstanding universities around the United States and around the world, and the department has strong expertise in all major subfields of political science.
  
• As active research scholars, members of the faculty regularly review research grants for major granting bodies in the U.S. and abroad, and serve as editors or on editorial boards of major peer-reviewed journals, including Administration & Society; Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; Critical Policy Studies; Congress and the Presidency; Fast Capitalism; International Political Sociology; the minnesota review; New Political Science; Peace Studies Journal; Presidential Studies Quarterly; Rhetoric & Public Affairs; and Telos.

• Minimum GPA 3.0 (4 Scale)
• GRE Recommended
• TOEFL/ IELTS score required (if applicable)

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Funding Opportunities

The Department of Political Science has an extremely limited number ofgraduate assistantships and fellowshipsavailable for highly promising students applying for full-time study on the Blacksburg Campus. Entering students can apply for such funding as part of their admissions application. No separate application required. However, we are only able to accept approximately 30% of all applicants to the program overall, and of that group, only 30% of that pool is offered funding. As one of the few fully-funded MA programs in Political Science, we receive a high volume of applications, and can generally fund only 15% of overall applications

Find out what loans are available as a graduate student and other opportunities (US citizenship or immigration status requirements may apply).