"U.S. News & World Report" ranked the top sociology programs in the United States in 2009. The top rated sociology program is that of the University of California at Berkeley. UCB is a world-renowned research institution, known for its interdisciplinary research in various fields of study. It should come as no surprise that its sociology program benefits from this reputation. Its PhD program has a reputation for producing top graduates in the field who go on to teach at other top programs. In fact, between 1992 and 2002, the UCB program produced more top graduates who have gone on to teach at top-25 programs than any other graduate sociology department. In addition to the PhD in sociology, UCB offers a joint-degree program that allows students to also obtain a PhD in demography.
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University of California--Berkeley
Department of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
510-642-4766
sociology.berkeley.edu
Second only to the the UC--Berkeley sociology program, the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UWM) is the No. 2-ranked sociology program in the United States. The sociology department at UWM is combined with the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology. The Wisconsin program offers students an opportunity to research in a number of areas of specialization. Some of these include fields such as class analysis and historical change, environmental and resource sociology, comparative and historical sociology, the sociology of economic change and development, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Also offered are fields such as the sociology of culture, education, gender, economic change and development, international conflict, family, medicine, religion and science, among others.
University of Wisconsin--Madison
Department of Sociology
8128 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-2921
ssc.wisc.edu/soc
The No. 3-ranked sociology program, according to "U.S. News & World Report," is the program at Princeton University. Princeton is considered to be among the best universities in the United States and, indeed, the world in a number of different disciplines. Its place near the top of the list of graduate sociology programs stems from its interdisciplinary approach to the study of the subject. Like the program at UCB, the Princeton program offers students opportunity for joint degrees. Students can study social policy in addition to their graduate studies in sociology. Areas of study covered by the program include core courses in applied and advanced social statistics, classical and contemporary social theory, empirical investigation and the techniques and methods of social science. Other fields of study covered by the program are offered in the fields of comparative, regional and political study; cultural sociology; demography; economic and organizational sociology; ethnography; inequality; migration and development; and sociological methods.
Princeton University
Department of Sociology
106 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
609-258-4530
sociology.princeton.edu