Best Social Sciences and Humanities Schools (2009) es la última edición publicada por la revista U.S. News & World Report que clasifica las mejores universidades para realizar estudios de doctorado (PhD, Philosophiæ Doctor) en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.
Las disciplinas sometidas a dicha clasificación fueron Psicología, Historia, Lengua Inglesa, Criminología, Economía, Ciencia Política y, por supuesto, Sociología.

La metodología del ranking consistió en un cuestionario enviado a jefes de departamento y directores de estudios de posgrado de universidades estadounidenses que durante el periodo 2001-2005 concedieron 5 o más títulos. El cuestionario, aplicado en otoño de 2008 por Synovate, una importante consultoria sobre estudios de mercado, tuvo el objetivo de ponderar en 5 escalas (excelente, muy bueno, bueno, suficiente y deficiente, la calidad académica de los programas de estudio.
A continuación reproducimos los resultados. Nótese que ciertas universidades comparten la misma posición.
- University of California-Berkeley
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA - Columbia University, New York, NY
Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - Duke University, Durham, NC
New York University, New York, NY
University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
University of Washington, Seattle, WA - Pennsylvania State University-University Park, University Park, PA
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, MD
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
Yale University, New Haven, CT - Brown University, Providence, RI
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD - University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA
CUNY Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY
University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY
University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA - Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ
University of California-Davis, Davis, CA
University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN - Emory University, Atlanta, GA
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA - Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
Texas A&M University-College Station, College Station, TX
University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL
Washington State University, Pullman, WA - Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN - Purdue University-West Lafayette, West Lafayette, IN
University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Boston University, Boston, MA
New School, New York , NY
University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR - University of Delaware, Newark, DE
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS - Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
University of South Carolina-Columbia, Columbia, SC
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Sin clasificar
- American University, Washington, DC
- Baylor University, Waco, TX
- Brigham Young University-Provo, Provo, UT
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
- Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA
- Florida International University, Miami, FL
- Fordham University, Bronx, NY
- Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
- Howard University, Washington, DC
- Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
- Kent State University, Kent, OH
- Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA
- Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
- Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
- South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
- Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
- Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
- Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
- Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX
- Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- University at Buffalo-SUNY, Buffalo, NY
- University of Akron, Akron, OH
- University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
- University of Denver, Denver, CO
- University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI
- University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
- University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
- University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
- University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque , NM
- University of North Texas, Denton, TX
- University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
- University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
- Utah State University, Logan, UT
- Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
- Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Fuente: Orgtheory.net
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