We are very pleased that the Social Psychology program in the Department of Sociology at Emory is now ranked among the top ten programs in the country by US News and World Report, moving from #14 in 2003 to #9 today. The program provides a strong foundation in the core areas of social psychology, while also allowing students to apply social psychology to topics such as crime, race, and health, and to bridge to other sociological areas, such as culture and stratification. We also believe that we have top programs in several areas that are not ranked by US News, including political economy and global/ comparative sociology, race and ethnicity, and sociology of education. Further, we continue to enhance the strength of our programs in culture and health, and have recently hired several senior faculty in several major areas. The department's overall ranking rose two steps to 36th and we expect that with these recent efforts we will see significantly more improvement in the next set of ratings.
Dr. Robert Agnew, Chair of Sociology and Dr. Cathryn Johnson, Director of Graduate Studies of Sociology