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Careers

Careers in Sociology at ASA website

Directories of Programs

ASA publishes the Guide to Graduate Programs in Sociology with listings for over 250 graduate departments of sociology. Includes name and rank, faculty identified by highest degree held, institution and date of degree, and areas of specialty interest. Special programs, tuition costs, types of financial aid, and student enrollment statistics are given for each department, along with a listing of recent PhDs with dissertation titles. Copy generally available in Kimball House.

Rankings

Customized rankings of sociology programs at phds.org (based on 1995 NRC rankings)
Current US News rankings

Funding Sources and Angles You May Not Know About

NSF fellowships
Other national fellowships

Joint Programs (just a sampling...)

Johns Hopkins Doctorate in Sociology and a master's in Mathematical Sciences [http://www.soc.jhu.edu/joint_program.htm]
Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard [http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/socialpol/curric/curric.htm]
J.D./Ph.D. in Sociology at Stanford [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/soc/joint.htm]
Yale University joint Ph.D program in Sociology and African American Studies [http://www.yale.edu/socdept/gradprogram.html]
Yale University joint J.D./Ph.D. program with the Yale Law School [http://www.yale.edu/socdept/gradprogram.html]

Taking the GRE

The GRE website.

Miscellaneous Web Resources

PhDs.org : help students to prepare for the changing demands of today's job market and to provide a voice for early career scientists.
US Graduate Programs
Other Countries

Here are direct links to the sociology home pages at a few dozen of the best American sociology graduate programs (list courtesy of Skidmore College Department of Sociology):

Brown University University of Illinois - Urbana University of Pennsylvania
University of California - Berkeley Indiana University Pennsylvania State University
University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) Johns Hopkins University Princeton University
University of California - Riverside University of Iowa Rutgers University
University of California - San Diego University of Maryland Stanford University
University of California - Santa Barbara University of Massachusetts - Amherst SUNY at Albany
University of Chicago University Michigan SUNY at Binghampton
Columbia University Michigan State University SUNY at Stony Brook
Cornell University University of Minnesota University of Texas
Duke University New York University University of Washington
Emory University University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Washington State University
Florida State University Northwestern University University of Wisconsin - Madison
Harvard University Ohio State University Yale University