World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Sociology

2026 edition, Sociology. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 Harvard University 1st in the world for Sociology
2 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 2nd in the world for Sociology
3 University of Oxford 3rd in the world for Sociology
4 University College London 4th in the world for Sociology
5 University of Texas at Austin 5th in the world for Sociology
6 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6th in the world for Sociology
7 New York University 7th in the world for Sociology
8 University of Wisconsin-Madison 8th in the world for Sociology
9 University of Edinburgh 9th in the world for Sociology
10 Pennsylvania State University 10th in the world for Sociology
11 Ohio State University 11th in the world for Sociology
12 University of Washington 12th in the world for Sociology
13 Duke University 13th in the world for Sociology
14 National University of Singapore 14th in the world for Sociology
15 University of Oslo 15th in the world for Sociology
16 University of California, Berkeley 16th in the world for Sociology
17 Cornell University 17th in the world for Sociology
18 University of Melbourne 18th in the world for Sociology
19 University of California, Los Angeles 19th in the world for Sociology
20 University of Minnesota 20th in the world for Sociology
21 Princeton University 21st in the world for Sociology
22 University of Toronto 22nd in the world for Sociology
23 University of Amsterdam 23rd in the world for Sociology
24 London School of Economics and Political Science 24th in the world for Sociology
25 Stanford University 25th in the world for Sociology
26 Utrecht University 26th in the world for Sociology
27 University of Pennsylvania 27th in the world for Sociology
28 University of Chicago 28th in the world for Sociology
29 Yale University 29th in the world for Sociology
30 Columbia University 30th in the world for Sociology
31 Northwestern University 31st in the world for Sociology
32 King's College London 32nd in the world for Sociology
=33 University of Copenhagen 33rd in the world for Sociology
=33 University of Groningen 33rd in the world for Sociology
35 Brown University 35th in the world for Sociology
36 University of British Columbia 36th in the world for Sociology
37 University of Sheffield 37th in the world for Sociology
38 University of New South Wales 38th in the world for Sociology
39 University of Helsinki 39th in the world for Sociology
40 University of Utah 40th in the world for Sociology
41 Stockholm University 41st in the world for Sociology
42 Johns Hopkins University 42nd in the world for Sociology
43 University of Southern California 43rd in the world for Sociology
=44 Arizona State University 44th in the world for Sociology
=44 University of Sussex 44th in the world for Sociology
=46 McGill University 46th in the world for Sociology
=46 University of Manchester 46th in the world for Sociology
48 Purdue University 48th in the world for Sociology
=49 University of Queensland 49th in the world for Sociology
=49 University of Surrey 49th in the world for Sociology
=51 Indiana University Bloomington 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Cambridge 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Hong Kong 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 Monash University 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Sydney 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 Erasmus University Rotterdam 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 Michigan State University 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Glasgow 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Warwick 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Connecticut 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Maryland, College Park 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Nottingham 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Birmingham 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Massachusetts Amherst 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of Bristol 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 Emory University 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 Florida State University 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 University of California, Irvine 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 Loughborough University 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 Radboud University Nijmegen 51st in the world for Sociology
=51 Manchester Metropolitan University 51st in the world for Sociology
=76 University of Alberta 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 Washington University in St. Louis 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 Australian National University 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 University of Exeter 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 Chinese University of Hong Kong 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 University of Southampton 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 University of Milan 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 European University Institute 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 Case Western Reserve University 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 Western University 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 Georgetown University 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 University of Georgia 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 Adelaide University 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 University of Leicester 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 York University 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 University of Bath 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 University of Illinois Chicago 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 Cardiff University 76th in the world for Sociology
=76 Oklahoma State University 76th in the world for Sociology
=101 Deakin University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 ETH Zurich 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Peking University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Copenhagen Business School 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of California, San Francisco 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Durham University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of Arizona 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of California, Davis 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of Florida 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of Pittsburgh 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of Zurich 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of California, Santa Barbara 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Vanderbilt University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of Montreal 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of Leeds 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Lund University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Newcastle University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Boston University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Boston College 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of Cincinnati 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Aalborg University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Uppsala University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Georgia State University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 Tel Aviv University 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of Liverpool 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of Haifa 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of South Florida 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University at Albany, State University of New York 101st in the world for Sociology
=101 University of Notre Dame 101st in the world for Sociology
=151 Tsinghua University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of California, San Diego 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of Colorado Boulder 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Zhejiang University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Aarhus University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of Vienna 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Beijing Normal University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of Virginia 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Renmin University of China 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 KU Leuven 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 George Washington University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Ghent University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of Bologna 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Trinity College Dublin 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of Auckland 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of Strathclyde 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Bocconi University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Tilburg University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of Johannesburg 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Syracuse University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Iowa State University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Maastricht University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of Turku 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Lancaster University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of North Texas 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of Ottawa 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 University of Missouri 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 McMaster University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Queen's University Belfast 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 The Open University 151st in the world for Sociology
=151 Florida Atlantic University 151st in the world for Sociology
=201 Griffith University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Korea University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Leiden University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Sao Paulo 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Wageningen University & Research 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Western Sydney University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Flinders University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Newcastle 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of St Andrews 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Delft University of Technology 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 La Trobe University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Roskilde University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Bern 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Curtin University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Fudan University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Texas A&M University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Hawaii at Manoa 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Victoria University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 American University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Western Australia 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Queensland University of Technology 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Queen Mary University of London 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Rice University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Miami 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Brunel University of London 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Turin 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Virginia Tech 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Guelph 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Konstanz 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Macau 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 National Taiwan University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University College Dublin 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Antwerp 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Iowa 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Waterloo 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Bergen 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Bournemouth University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Gothenburg 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Wake Forest University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Maryland, Baltimore 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 The University of Texas at San Antonio 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Trento 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Universitat Pompeu Fabra 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Stavanger 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Hong Kong Baptist University 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 University of Zagreb 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Dartmouth College 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Universitat de València 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Indiana University Indianapolis 201st in the world for Sociology
=201 Royal Holloway University of London 201st in the world for Sociology