Our students also benefit from the department’s excellence in teaching, commitment to mentoring, diverse extracurricular activities, and opportunities for scholarly advancement.

Most of our students are the first in their families to have attended college. We take immense pride in helping them complete their B.A. degrees. Some of our alumni have gone on to pursue graduate degrees in Political Science at leading universities, such as New Mexico and UT Austin. Others have taken advantage of UTEP’s Law School Preparation Institute to win admission to top-tier law schools, including California-Berkeley, Cornell, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, Texas, Virginia, and Yale.

Our department has placed undergraduate majors in internships at the U.S. Department of State, the office of Congressman Silvestre Reyes, the Organization of American States, and other governmental agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. The Center for Civic Engagement allows students to link classroom learning to community service, policy advocacy, and activism.

Student organizations advised by Political Science faculty include Amnesty International, the Global Relations Organization (GRO), the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Pi Sigma Alpha Political Honor Society, Students for Reform, and University Democrats.