Reputational Ranking of Graduate Programs in Sociology #1

The following ranking of graduate programs in sociology is done by U.S. News and World Report (2011). It is based on the scholarly quality of the faculty and the effectiveness of the program in educating research scholars/scientists. All such ratings are suspect, but they give you some sense of academic reputations of various schools. Source: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools

Rank Institution Rank Institution

1 University of California Berkeley 48 Brandeis University 2 University of Wisconsin Madison Michigan State University 3 Princeton University North Carolina State University University of Michigan University of Georgia 5 University of Chicago University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Stanford University University of Notre Dame Harvard University 54 Purdue University University of North Carolina University of California, Santa Cruz 9 Northwestern University Arizona State University University of California Los Angeles University of Pittsburgh 10 Columbia University 57 Boston University Indiana University New School for Social Research University of Pennsylvania University of California, San Francisco 14 Duke University University of Colorado New York University University of Connecticut University of Texas, Austin University of Oregon 17 Cornell University 64 University of Delaware Ohio State University 65 University of Kansas University of Washington 66 Binghamton University—SUNY 20 Pennsylvania State University Bowling Green State University University of Arizona Northeastern University University of Maryland, College Park Syracuse University University of Minnesota Iowa State University Yale University 72 Louisiana State University 25 Brown University Teachers College—Columbia University Johns Hopkins University Temple University 27 University of California Irvine University of Nebraska 28 City University of New York (CUNY) 77 Baylor University University of Albany—SUNY Case Western Reserve University of California, Santa Barbara Georgia State University 31 Rutgers University, State University of N J University of Buffalo—SUNY University of California Davis University of Missouri University of California, San Diego 82 Colorado State University University of Massachusetts, Amherst Howard University Vanderbilt University Loyola University, Chicago 36 Emory University Southern Illinois University University of Iowa Tulane University University of Virginia University of Miami (FL) 39 Florida State University University of New Hampshire University of Southern California University of New Mexico 41 Boston College 90 American University Stony Brook University—SUNY Brigham Young University Texas A & M University Fordham University University of California, Riverside Kent State University University of Florida University of Alabama, Birmingham University of Illinois, Chicago University of Cincinnati Washington State University University of Kentucky University of Oklahoma University of Tennessee

Reputational Ranking of Graduate Programs in Sociology #2

1 The following ranking of graduate programs in sociology is done by the National Research Council. It is based on the scholarly quality of the faculty and the effectiveness of the program in educating research scholars/scientists. The listing and a discussion of the method of research for this ranking appear in The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 22, 1995. Unfortunately such a rating has not been published since that time.

49 University of Connecticut 1 University of Chicago 50 University of California San Francisco 2 University of Wisconsin Madison 50 Texas A&M University 3 University of California Berkeley 52 Purdue University 4 University of Michigan 53 University of California Santa Cruz 5 University of California Los Angeles 54 University of Kentucky 6 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 55 Boston College 7 Harvard University 56 University of Oregon 8 Stanford University 56 University of Colorado 9 Northwestern University 58 Syracuse University 10 University of Washington 59 University of Pittsburgh 11 University of Pennsylvania 60 Brandeis University 12 Indiana University 61 Iowa State University 13 Princeton University 61 Temple University 14 University of Arizona 63 University of Missouri Columbia 15 Columbia University 64 North Carolina State University 16 University of Texas Austin 65 Louisiana State University 17 Johns Hopkins University 66 University of Kansas 18 Pennsylvania State University 67 University of Nebraska Lincoln 19 Yale University 68 Loyola University of Chicago 20 Duke University 69 University of Delaware 21 New York University 70 University of New Hampshire 22 University of California San Diego 71 Northeastern University 23 University of California Santa Barbara 72 Tulane University 24 University of Minnesota 73 Arizona State University 25 State University of New York Stony Brook 74 State University of New York Buffalo 25 Ohio State University 76 Bowling Green State University 27 Vanderbilt University 76 Howard University 27 University of California Riverside 76 University of Hawaii, Manoa 29 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 78 Southern Illinois University 30 State University of New York Albany 79 University of Tennessee Knoxville 31 Rutgers University New Brunswick 80 American University 32 Washington State University 81 Colorado State University 33 University of Maryland C Park 82 Fordham University 34 State University of New York Binghamton 83 University of Utah 35 Cornell University 84 University of Akron 36 Florida State University 85 Western Michigan University 37 City University of New York 86 Mississippi State University 38 Brown University 87 University of Cincinnati 39 University of Massachusetts Amherst 88 Kent State University 40 University of Southern California 89 University of Oklahoma 40 University of Iowa 90 University of Denver 42 Michigan State University 92 Utah State University 43 University of Florida 92 University of North Texas 44 Boston University 92 Catholic University of America 45 University of Illinois at Chicago 94 Georgia State University 46 University of Notre Dame 95 Oklahoma State University 47 University of Virginia 47 University of Georgia

Publication-Based Ranking of Graduate Programs in Sociology 2 This ranking of graduate programs in sociology is based on the publication productivity of the faculty of these programs for a five-year period. The sole measure was publication in the three most prestigious sociological journals: American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces. Note that it does not include publication in specialty journals nor production of books in the field. It should be considered as one type of counter-check to the reputational ranking on the previous page. If a school ranks higher in this listing, that is noteworthy and may indicate a trend for the future, but a lower ranking using this methodology is not necessarily an indication of deterioration of the program.

1 University of Chicago 14 Stanford University 2 University of Wisconsin at Madison 14 UCLA 3 SUNY at Albany 14 Cornell University 4 University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill 14 Duke University 5 University of Michigan 14 University of Texas at Austin 6 University of Arizona 19 University of Iowa 6 University of Indiana 20 University of Minnesota 8 Penn State University 21 University of Pennsylvania 8 Ohio State University 21 Emory University 10 University of California/Berkeley 23 Northwestern University 11 Harvard University 23 Princeton University 11 Columbia University 23 Louisiana State University 11 Vanderbilt University 23 University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Please note that in FOB—in the alcove between the second and third floors—there is a recent copy of the ASA publication on Graduate Programs in Sociology. That resource will list areas of specialization for each graduate program, the names and contact information for faculty members in that department, and other useful information. We ask that the book be used in the building so it is available to all, but please do use it. Likewise, there is a publication on all members of the American Sociological Association, so if you want to contact an author whose work you admire or want to ask about graduate school, this is a good place to locate these sociologists.