Best Sociology Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the New England Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the New England Region that made our Best Sociology Doctor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Sociology School for Your Doctor's Degree

The sociology doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality sociology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on sociology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of sociology students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt sociology students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized sociology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for sociology students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the New England Region

Because of lacking data, we could not show you the sociology quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the New England Region that both offer sociology and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, look at at some of our other Sociology rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Sociology ranking.

Best Sociology Colleges by State

Explore the best sociology schools for a specific state in the New England Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	153	24
Connecticut	93	14
Rhode Island	78	3
New Hampshire	47	2

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Sociology Related Rankings by Major

Sociology is one of 13 different types of Social Sciences programs to choose from.

Sociology Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Sociology	45

Most Popular Majors Related to Sociology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Economics	185
Political Science & Government	96
Anthropology	38
International Relations & National Security	10
Geography & Cartography	5
General Social Sciences	3
Archeology	3

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Kontos. More about our data sources and methodologies.