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 |
