Sociology
Professors
Faculty are glad to talk with you about what
graduate school is like, how to select schools to apply
to, and how to go about applying.
Career
Services
This office on the first floor of Starbuck
Center has much information on graduate schools. Click here
for Career Services' terrific Web site on graduate schools.
Guide
to Graduate Programs in Sociology
This annual American Sociological Association
publication describes over 250 sociology graduate programs
in the United States and several other countries. The Guide
lists schools' faculty and their areas of expertise, special
programs, types of financial aid, and recent PhD graduates
and their dissertation titles. You'll want to use this guide
in exploring grad schools. A copy is available to borrow
in the department office -- 218 Tisch Learning Center.
Graduate
School Rankings
National
Research Council
Sociology:
U.S. News
Criminal
Justice: US News
These Web sites rank US graduate programs in sociology and
criminal justice. The US News Sociology rankings also offers
separate rankings for these subspecialties: Sociology
of Culture; Social
Stratification; Historical
Sociology; Social
Psychology; Economic
Sociology; and Methodology.
As with rankings of undergraduate colleges, use these ranking
cautiously. Don't take them too seriously. Minor differences
in rankings are meaningless, and even overall rankings are
suspect. These rankings, however, offer a general sense
of highly regarded graduate programs and may call your attention
to graduate programs that you might not have thought of.
Click
here
for an overall ranking of graduate schools (but not sociology
in particular) by The Center at the University of Florida.
Web
Sites of Sociology Graduate Programs
US
Graduate Programs
Other
Countries
There are over 200 sociology graduate programs in the United
States and still more in other countries. These links take
you directly to their sociology home pages.
Here
are direct links to the sociology home pages at a few dozen
of the best American sociology graduate programs: