Graduate Program

Notre Dame provides a supportive and challenging environment for sociological research and graduate training.  Students work closely with faculty members who are engaged in cutting edge research and who are leaders and innovators in their fields.  Faculty teaching and research interests are diverse and cut across the discipline’s primary subfields.  The department is especially strong in the sociology of education, religion, family, and social movements/political sociology.

The graduate program provides all students with a strong foundation in social theory and research methods.  Students also develop expertise in specific fields within the discipline.  The program’s primary goal is to help students to become outstanding independent scholars and teachers who will make important contributions to a wider body of knowledge.

Degrees

The Department of Sociology offers both the M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology. It only admits students intent on pursuing the doctorate degree.

Facilities and Affiliations

The University’s Computing Center makes large-capacity, late-generation networked equipment available to graduate students, for whom several microcomputing labs are also available.  The University library system has a collection with nearly 3 million volumes, is an access point for hundreds of electronic resources, and houses a document center with over 800,000 United States government documents.

Faculty affiliations with on-campus institutes and research centers provide additional resources for graduate students. These centers include the:

Learn More

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS BY PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS
Journals and Centers
Sociology Profile (PDF) >
The Graduate School > http://graduateschool.nd.edu/html/programs/sociology.html