Las mejores universidades en Estados Unidos para estudiar un doctorado en sociología

Best Social Sciences and Humanities Schools (2017) es la última edición publicada por la revista U.S. News & World Report que clasifica a las mejores universidades en Estados Unidos para estudiar un 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 para clasificar el ranking de universidades consistió en un cuestionario enviado a los jefes de departamento y directores de estudios de posgrado de universidades en Estados Unidos que durante el periodo 2011-2015 hayan concedido más de cinco títulos. El cuestionario, aplicado en otoño de 2016 por la empresa Ipsos Public Affairs, una importante consultoria sobre estudios de mercado, tuvo el objetivo de ponderar en cinco 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.

1. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
   Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
   University of California-Berkeley
   University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
2. Stanford University, Stanford, CA
3. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
   University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
4. University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
5. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
6. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
7. Columbia University, New York, NY
   New York University, New York, NY
   University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
   University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX
8. Duke University, Durham, NC
   Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
9. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
   Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
   Pennsylvania State University-University Park, University Park, PA
   University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
   University of Washington, Seattle, WA
10. Yale University, New Haven, CT
11. University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA
12. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
    Brown University, Providence, RI
    University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, MD
13. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
14. CUNY Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY
    Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick, Piscataway, NJ
15. University of California-Davis, Davis, CA
    University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA
16. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
    University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
17. Emory University, Atlanta, GA
    University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY
    University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA
18. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
19. SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
20. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
21. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
22. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
    University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL
    University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO
    Washington State University, Pullman, WA
23. Boston University, Boston, MA
    Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
    North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
    Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
    Northeastern University, Boston, MA
    Texas A&M University-College Station, College Station, TX
    University of Georgia, Athens, GA
    University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
    University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
    Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
    Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
    Purdue University-West Lafayette, West Lafayette, IN
    Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
    University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA
    University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
24. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
    University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
    University of Delaware, Newark, DE
    University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
25. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
    New School, New York , NY
    Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
    University at Buffalo-SUNY, Buffalo, NY
26. University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
    University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
27. Utah State University, Logan, UT
28. Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA
    University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
    University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
    University of South Carolina-Columbia, Columbia, SC
29. American University, Washington, DC
    Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
30. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
    Iowa State University, Ames, IA
    University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
    University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
    University of New Mexico, Albuquerque , NM
31. SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
    Baylor University, Waco, TX
    Howard University, Washington, DC
    Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
    Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
    Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
    University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
    University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
    Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
32. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
    Kent State University, Kent, OH
    Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
    Portland State University, Portland, OR
    University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
    University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
33. Brigham Young University-Provo, Provo, UT
    Fordham University, Bronx, NY
    University of Central Florida
    University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI
    University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

Universidades para estudiar en Estados Unidos (sin clasificar)

• Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA
• Florida International University, Miami, FL
• Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
• South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
• Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
• Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
• University of Akron, Akron, OH
• University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
• University of Denver, Denver, CO
• University of North Texas, Denton, TX
• Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

–Fuente: Orgtheory.net