Placement

The Sociology Graduate program has recently analyzed placement information about students who have graduated from the PhD program between 2004 and 2021. 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. This list ranges from private liberal arts colleges to nationally renowned public universities. Of these, many are located within the United States, but also in a range of other countries including China, Netherlands, and Taiwan.

Tenure-track placements of graduates into universities/colleges within the last 12 years:

  • Auburn University
  • Bucknell University
  • California State University
  • Calvin College
  • Central Michigan University
  • Chung Shan Medical University (Taiwan)
  • Depauw University
  • Frostburg State University
  • Grand Valley State University
  • Hope College
  • International Christian University (Japan)
  • Iowa State University
  • James Madison University
  • Langston University
  • Miami of Ohio University
  • Oakland University
  • Rowan University
  • Rutgers University
  • Sam Houston State University
  • Spring Arbor University
  • St. Bonaventure University
  • SUNY Buffalo State College
  • Texas A&M University
  • Texas Tech University
  • Tulane University
  • University of Arkansas
  • University of Idaho
  • University of Montevallo
  • University of Nebraska-Omaha
  • University of North Carolina-Charlotte
  • University of North Carolina-Pembroke
  • University of North Texas
  • University of Rhode Island
  • University of South Carolina
  • University of West Virginia
  • University of Windsor (Canada)
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Wayne State University, Detroit
  • Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages (Taiwan)
  • Western Michigan University
  • Western Washington University
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University (China)

Post-doctoral research positions of graduates within the last 12 years:

  • Bowdoin College
  • Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Columbia University
  • French National Institute of Agricultural Research
  • Genesys Regional Medical Center
  • Michigan State University
  • Northeastern University
  • Penn State University
  • The Hague University (Netherlands)
  • The Mather Institute
  • Tsinghua University (China)
  • University of British Columbia (Canada)
  • University of Idaho
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • University of Wisconsin Madison
  • Washington State University

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