The Graduate Program

Welcome to graduate program of the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin! Our faculty and students come from every part of the United States and the world, including the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, Mexico, Chile, Turkey, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and others.

We place tremendous value on our core training in sociological theory, methods and statistics at the graduate level. We build on that core with a variety of course offerings in areas such as criminology and deviance, demography, development, education, family, gender, health, political sociology, race and ethnicity, religion, and social stratification. While our faculty members provide strong academic instruction in the classroom, we also work very closely with students in the research arena, with many co-authored publications and presentations resulting from faculty/student collaborations. Through Assistant Instructor, Teaching Assistant, and Research Assistant appointments, as well as a myriad of university, government, and private fellowships, we are usually successful in funding 95-100% of our graduate students during the academic year.

Our graduate students have also been very competitive for prestigious dissertation fellowships, internships, postdoctoral fellowships, and on the academic and non-academic job markets. In recent years, PhD graduates from our program have won postdoctoral fellowships at Brown University, the University of Chicago, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, Rice University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill, Harvard University, Princeton University, and more. Our PhD graduates also now serve on the faculty at many prestigious universities around the country, including Princeton University, Duke University, UCLA, Penn State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ohio State University, Florida State University, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Illinois, University of Colorado, Rice University, Bucknell University, Michigan State University, University of California at Davis, North Carolina State University, University of Kansas, Kansas State University, and many more. Many others hold important research positions in federal government, state government, and private settings, such as the United Nations, the US Bureau of the Census, the Urban Institute, and the Alan Guttmacher Institute.