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A lot of lawyers have political science undergraduate degrees. If you speak any foreign languages, consider joining the State Department (or the Foreign Minstry if you aren’t American). Pair it up your degree with a strong statistics background, and you can sell yourself as a pollster or political campaign consultant.

However, in general, a political science degree really shouldn’t be looked at as a form of practical job training. It’s value lies in how this kind of major makes you more worldly and better able to understand what is happening in politics. Don’t feel as if you are unemployable because your degree doesn’t put you automatically into a career track. Many employers just want somebody with a college degree - what the major is doesn’t matter so much. Getting a political science degree indicates you learned how to write, research and understand the world. Those skills are often of more interest to employers than the name of your major.

And just so you know, I got a degree in poltical science and now I’m an insurance agent.

Well, I have a poli sci and and english degree, and I manage a small chain of bookstores now.

Earning that BA teaches you how to think.

In my country, most of my fellow students of political science ended up in a government job. They now help develop policies, have management positions within the governement, advice about the political prudentness of certain policies, write papers about the efficiency of certain management structures and policies et cetera. Others have gone into big corporations, like Shell, and do just about the same there, plus advicing on how to influence governemental decisions. Even others work in non-profit organisations in just about the same capacities. Some work at polling agencies, some more at universities and private think tanks. Many are involved in multinational organisations and intergouvernmental organisations. Others write for newspapers and websites, publish books about politics, ghost-write for politicians or work in television or radio. Some end up in active politics, either as a candidate themselves or as assistents. Others, like myself, get an educational degree and start teaching children about democracy, values, the influence of the media and politics. Others start carreers that superficially have nothing to do with political science at all, even though you can find a form of politics at every point people with personal interests have to work together for the interests of a group or corporation.