Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology

The graduate program offers broad training in sociology, with several areas of concentrated expertise: education, family, life course, and sexualities, global inequality and change, immigration, population, organizations, occupations, and labor, social inequality: race/ethnicity, gender, and class/stratification, social movements and political sociology, social networks, organizations, occupations, and labor, and the study of democracy. We are committed to theoretically informed and empirically grounded scholarship. We welcome multidisciplinary pursuits, forging links with other units on the campus and beyond. We also embrace a broad range of methods including ethnography, experiments, formal modeling, historical-comparative analysis, and surveys to pursue answers to questions of substantive and theoretical importance. The program offers both MA and PhD degrees, although the latter is emphasized.

Hold a bachelor's degree (or equivalent) from a recognized academic institution with degree standards equivalent to those of the University of California
Have a minimum cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0
GRE scores
TOEFL or IELTS
Three (3) Letters of Recommendation
Transcripts
One (1) Writing Sample
The GRE General Test is required of all applicants for PhD admission. We cannot waive this requirement, even when the applicant has completed an advanced degree at another college or university in the United States.
A minimum overall score of 80/120 is required for admission, while a minimum sub-score of 26/30 on the Speaking component of the test is needed to qualify for financial support consideration. We cannot waive either of these minimum score requirements under any circumstances. Neither can we waive the requirement for current TOEFL or IELTS scores.
We can accept current IELTS (International English Language Testing System) scores as an alternative to the TOEFL-ibT, in which case a minimum 7/10 (overall) is required for admission, and 8/10 (Speaking component) for financial support consideration.
TOEFL iBT minimum score of 80
IELTS - An overall minimum score of 7.0 for admission, with a score of no less than 6.0 on any individual module.