The graduate students are truly the pride of the USC Sociology Department. We recruit diverse graduate students who are theoretically and empirically engaged with research, teaching, and public sociology connected with gender, race, immigration, religion, civic engagement, culture, and families. Our graduate students consistently win College and University level fellowships as well external support from the American Sociological Association, and from foundations such as the National Science Foundation. Additionally, our students publish in prestigious journals such as Gender & Society, The American Sociological Review, and others.  Graduate students' engagement in organizing an annual campus symposium, an on-going brown bag colloquium on Intellectual Activism, and other activities makes this one of the most exciting departments in which to do graduate work. We place a high priority on placing our Ph.D. students in tenure track faculty positions and postdoctoral research positions. For a list of our recent placements, visit our outstanding alumni page.

Link to graduate student cohorts

Link to testimonials of graduate students