据USNews官方介绍，美国大学研究生社会学专业排名主要参考以下六大因素：1、师生比;2、研究费用;3、录取比率;4、本科平均学分;5、GRE LSAT GMAT平均分;6、毕业即成功就业率。
下面是2015年USNews美国大学研究生社会学专业的详细排名：
2015USNews美国大学研究生社会学专业排名
| 排名 | 学校名称 | 分数 |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ |
4.7 |
| #1 | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA |
4.7 |
| #1 | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI |
4.7 |
| #4 | Stanford University Stanford, CA |
4.6 |
| #4 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI |
4.6 |
| #6 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA |
4.5 |
| #6 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL |
4.5 |
| #6 | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC |
4.5 |
| #9 | University of California—Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA |
4.4 |
| #10 | Northwestern University Evanston, IL |
4.3 |
| #10 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
4.3 |
| #12 | Columbia University New York, NY |
4.2 |
| #12 | Indiana University—Bloomington Bloomington, IN |
4.2 |
| #14 | Duke University Durham, NC |
4.1 |
| #14 | University of Texas—Austin Austin, TX |
4.1 |
| #16 | New York University New York, NY |
4.0 |
| #17 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY |
3.9 |
| #17 | Ohio State University Columbus, OH |
3.9 |
| #17 | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA |
3.9 |
| #20 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ |
3.8 |
| #20 | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN |
3.8 |
| #20 | University of Washington Seattle, WA |
3.8 |
| #20 | Yale University New Haven, CT |
3.8 |
| #24 | University of Maryland—College Park College Park, MD |
3.7 |
| #25 | Brown University Providence, RI |
3.6 |
| #25 | University of California—Irvine Irvine, CA |
3.6 |
| #27 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD |
3.5 |
| #28 | CUNY Graduate School and University Center New York, NY |
3.4 |
| #28 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ |
3.4 |
| #28 | University at Albany—SUNY Albany, NY |
3.4 |
| #31 | University of California—Davis Davis, CA |
3.3 |
| #31 | University of California—Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA |
3.3 |
| #31 | University of Massachusetts—Amherst Amherst, MA |
3.3 |
| #31 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN |
3.3 |
| #35 | Emory University Atlanta, GA |
3.2 |
| #35 | University of California—San Diego La Jolla, CA |
3.2 |
| #35 | University of Iowa Iowa City, IA |
3.2 |
| #35 | University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA |
3.2 |
| #39 | Florida State University Tallahassee, FL |
3.1 |
| #39 | University of Illinois—Chicago Chicago, IL |
3.1 |
| #39 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA |
3.1 |
