Sociology - PhD

The University of California, Santa Barbara provides a unique environment for graduate work in Sociology. Situated on a stunning peninsula on the Pacific Ocean, the university offers a top-tier sociology program with world-renowned faculty. Graduate students benefit from rigorous training in theory and methods and in diverse substantive research areas, including: Conversation Analysis; Culture; Global Studies; Gender, Sexualities, and Feminist Studies; Race, Ethnicity, and Nation; and Social Movements. UCSB’s sociology graduate students have gone on to top jobs at other universities and numerous research, policy, and activist professions. The graduate program in sociology is intended to lead to the awarding of the Ph.D. degree. Applicants are not admitted only to pursue the M.A. degree; however, continuation to the Ph.D. program is dependent upon a student’s successful completion of the M.A. requirements and defense of the M.A. thesis. Applications are accepted for fall quarter admission only.

• Academia

• Government

• Law

• Gender and Sexualities

• Race and Ethnicity

• Cultural Studies

• Academia

• Businesses

• Legal institutions

• Social Justice

• Environmental Activism

• Journalism

• Education

• Feminist Studies

• Global Studies

• Chicano Studies

• Black Studies

• Social Justice

• Climate Change

• Technology and Society

• Race and Ethnicity

• Global Perspectives

• Immigration

• Sociology Catalog department page

• soc.ucsb.edu/graduate

• soc.ucsb.edu/graduate/prospective