Thinking about graduate school in sociology? Here are good sources of information:

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:

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

GRE Information
Most sociology graduate programs require applicants to take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE). Career Services (see above) has information on when and where the GRE is offered, how to register for the GRE, and how you can prepare for the GRE (e.g., by taking practice tests).

The GRE folks also have a excellent Web site of their own -- click here to visit it. The GRE Web site includes information on registration for the test and taking practice tests.