The Sociology Graduate program has recently analyzed placement information about students who have graduated from the PhD program between 2014 and 2026. The vast majority of these graduate students are placed into academic positions at a variety of universities and colleges. These positions include tenure-track faculty, fixed term, full-time research, and post-doctoral research. A number of students also gain employment among other venues such as governmental positions and directors of social programs.
Listed below are the colleges and universities who have recently hired our graduate students in the past 12 years:
Tenure-track placements of graduates into universities/colleges
- Brigham Young University-Idaho
- Central Michigan University
- City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College
- DePauw University
- East Carolina University
- Hampton University
- Howard University
- Iowa State University
- Miami University
- Michigan State University
- University of Arkansas-Fort Smith
- University of Maryland
- University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
- University of Michigan, Flint
- University of the Pacific
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of San Diego
- University of Vermont
- Spring Arbor University
- SUNY Buffalo State College
- Texas A&M University, San Antonio
- Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
- Texas Tech University
- Texas Women’s University
- University of Illinois, Chicago
- Wayne State University
- West Liberty University
- Western Governors University
- Western Washington University
Post-doctoral research positions
- Columbia University
- The Ohio State University
- Michigan State University
- Northeastern University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Tsinghua University
- University of Idaho
- University of Maryland
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- University of Vermont
- University of Wisconsin Madison
- Washington State University
- Wayne State University
- National Wildlife Federation