<p>...and if there are schools also strong in anthropology and gender studies, please mention those as well. Thanks.</p>
<p>I'm into sociology as well, and I've found Oberlin and Yale to have decent programs and faculty, esp. if you want to keep your doors somewhat open for other directions.</p>
<p>Look at University of Chicago, definitely.</p>
<p>sociology is such a broad major, that you cant really 'rank' the schools. take a look at the range of classes offered, look at the professors areas of interest, and go from there.</p>
<p>Wisconsin and Chicago are two of the best.</p>
<p>Again, yeah, Chicago is very strong on the "ologies," but I hear a lot of assistant professors at Chicago go on to get tenure-track positions at places like NYU, so I imagine there are more schools with good profs and programs than the ones that we can think of.</p>
<p>Northwestern. :)</p>
<p>I was intrigued by amykins' contention about Chicago and NYU, so I checked the NYU sociology department's 36 professors. Here's where they got their PhDs:
8-Berkeley, 6-Chicago, 5-Columbia, 3-Harvard, 2-Oxford, 2-Brandeis, 2-Northwestern, and 1 each from Wisconsin, Indiana, Edinburgh, Hopkins, NYU, Princeton, Stanford, and Alberta.
So, the contention is likely correct. The info is also useful as it shows schools whose PhDs do well in academia, and hence whose programs are probably very strong.</p>
<p>Also this, absolutely definitely this:
<a href="http://www.newschool.edu/gf/soc/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.newschool.edu/gf/soc/index.htm</a></p>
<p>Clark U., Worcester, MA</p>
<p>I thought it was psychology there.</p>