The paper presents the organizational structure of departments of political science in Polish universities that have the power to award PhD degree in political science: the number of employees and cathedrals (chairs), and a distribution of interests (fields) between the cathedrals. In a total of 17 departments surveyed (of 20 that have mentioned power) 1313 people works in 226 cathedrals. On average, in one department existing 13,3 cathedrals. Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw have the largest departments in terms of number of department employees. In more than half of the departments are cathedrals: political theory (political thought), international relations, political systems, public policy, history and European studies.