178 PhD programmes in Sociology in North America

This Social and Behavioral Sciences program at Johns Hopkins University is designed for individuals seeking training for careers as social and behavioral scientists, health educators and health promotion or communication specialists in the public health arena.

The PhD degree in Sociology is the pinnacle research degree offered in the discipline. The program at the University of Oklahoma prepares students to conduct the highest levels of sociological and criminological research along with developing and implementing a wide variety of courses in the classroom.

Graduates form the Sociology program at Northwestern University are pioneers of sociological research, analysis, writing and teaching, and future leaders across diverse sectors of professional life.

The PhD in Public Health-Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Track at University of Florida is targeted to individuals who wish to develop advanced knowledge and skills in the social and behavioral sciences theories and methods used in public health.

This is the first doctoral Sociology program in the state of West Virginia University. Each graduate program sets their own term of admission and application deadline.

The Sociology Department's graduate program at Binghamton University offers a transdisciplinary learning environment where students may pursue critical studies of labor, migration and capitalism, carceral and surveillance, and power and the politics of resistance.

The Sociology program from Columbia University combines an emphasis on competence in social theory and research methods with opportunities for the development of each student’s own interest.

The Department of Demography at University of California, Berkeley offers an interdisciplinary training program leading to the MA and PhD in Demography. 

Pursue scholarship that impacts education, research, and policy around the world. In this concentration in the PhD in Teaching and Learning, you can focus your studies on history, social studies, and global education. We offer a History, Social Studies, and Global Education degree at the New York University. 

The Psychology - Social-Personality degree at University at Buffalo is the scientific study of how behavior is influenced by the presence of other people. 

Interested in scholarship that cuts across conventional disciplinary boundaries? We offer a Social Practice and Transformational Change degree at the University of Guelph.

Engage in ongoing research projects with individual Arizona State University faculty, with research teams, and with research institutes and centers from throughout the university, all with this Sociology PhD.

The University of Toledo's Ph.D. program in Spatially Integrated Social Sciences is one of the only programs of its kind in the country. 

The Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati provides training in theory and research methods. The department is a vibrant intellectual space, centered in the multiple research projects of our faculty members and students.

The Sociology doctoral program at the University of Massachusetts Boston is an innovative approach to sociology and its application to resolving national and international issues.

Our Ph.D. Social Science or History Education program at Auburn University prepares graduates for faculty positions in post-secondary education and for leadership positions in secondary education.

The Department of Sociology at Florida State University actively works to collaborate and support graduate students through working groups, such as the Inequalities and the Aging Research on Contexts, Health and Inequalities (ARCHI) working groups, as well as reoccurring Brown Bag presentations through the Center for Demography and Population Health.

This rigorous, strongly interdisciplinary Performance Studies program at University of California, Davis encourages students to develop original dissertation research that explores and questions the artistic, social, and political ramifications of performance and the performative.

The Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Department at the Yale University aims to understand and improve health equity, both domestically and globally. 

The Department of Sociology and the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology from University of Wisconsin Madison conduct a combined graduate program in sociology designed to prepare students for scholarly research, teaching, or applied work.