Ranked 6th in the world for Sociology
Source: ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Sociology, 2025
Full ranking profile 53 placements
Every placement the Index records for Brown University. The headline figure is the strongest of these.
| Ranking table | Publisher | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Headline Sociology | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =6 |
| USN-Nat 2026 | U.S. News & World Report | =13 |
| Forbes 2025-2026 | Forbes | =18 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Archaeology | Quacquarelli Symonds | =24 |
| WSJ 2026 | Wall Street Journal | =27 |
| Leiden 2025 mathematics and computer science (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =31 |
| RUR 2026 | RUR Rankings Agency | =31 |
| SCImago 2025 Psychology | SCImago Research Group | =37 |
| RUR 2026 international diversity | RUR Rankings Agency | =43 |
| Time 2026 | Time / Statista | =50 |
| RUR 2026 teaching | RUR Rankings Agency | =53 |
| MosIUR 2025 | Association of Rating Makers (MosIUR) | =54 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =55 |
| THE-Rep 2025 reputation | Times Higher Education | =56 |
| RUR 2026 research | RUR Rankings Agency | =57 |
| Leiden 2025 physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =58 |
| THE 2026 | Times Higher Education | =65 |
| ARTU 2025 | UNSW Sydney | =66 |
| QS 2026 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =69 |
| Nature 2025 Earth & environmental sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =71 |
| Webomet 2025.2 (July 2025) | Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC | =84 |
| Leiden 2025 social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =99 |
| Nature 2025 physical sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =112 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Studies in Human Society | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =115 |
| SCImago 2025 Medicine | SCImago Research Group | =124 |
| NTU 2025 Clinical Medicine | National Taiwan University | =126 |
| Nature 2025 health sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =127 |
| NTU 2025 Social Sciences | National Taiwan University | =139 |
| SCImago 2026 Arts and Humanities | SCImago Research Group | =158 |
| SCImago 2025 Mathematics | SCImago Research Group | =161 |
| NTU 2025 Engineering | National Taiwan University | =168 |
| NTU 2025 | National Taiwan University | =178 |
| SCImago 2025 Computer Science | SCImago Research Group | =181 |
| RUR 2026 financial sustainability | RUR Rankings Agency | =186 |
| SCImago 2026 Physics and Astronomy | SCImago Research Group | =187 |
| SCImago 2025 Economics, Econometrics and Finance | SCImago Research Group | =189 |
| Nature 2025 | Nature / Springer Nature | =196 |
| SCImago 2025 Social Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =203 |
| NTU 2025 Life Sciences | National Taiwan University | =210 |
| NTU 2025 Natural Sciences | National Taiwan University | =210 |
| SCImago 2026 | SCImago Research Group | =211 |
| Nature 2025 biological sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =222 |
| URAP 2025-2026 | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =223 |
| Leiden 2025 scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =240 |
| SCImago 2026 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | SCImago Research Group | =250 |
| Leiden 2025 | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =280 |
| SCImago 2026 Chemistry | SCImago Research Group | =310 |
| Leiden 2025 life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =313 |
| SCImago 2025 Engineering | SCImago Research Group | =334 |
| SCImago 2026 Veterinary | SCImago Research Group | =375 |
| SCImago 2025 Earth and Planetary Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =410 |
| Leiden 2025 biomedical and health sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =422 |
| NTU 2025 Agriculture | National Taiwan University | =451 |
Banded results are recorded at the lower bound of the band. For how the headline figure is selected, see the methodology.