MA Timeline

Program Timeline

UCF’s MA in Political Science can be completed in two years (or potentially less, if a student is enrolled year-round).

First year students learn core methodological skills and take field courses that expose them to major approaches to contemporary American Politics, International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Political Theory.

Second year students continue their studies with self-selected electives and, if they choose, a Master’s Thesis.  Students who do not write a thesis write a non-thesis capstone paper and enroll in two additional electives.  (These electives compensate for the 6 credit hours required for writing a thesis.)