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The Department of Sociology at Rice University aims to educate undergraduate students and further on-going sociological research. As a member of the School of Social Sciences, we offer four-year Bachelor of the Arts degrees. For those seeking further education/research-opportunities past a doctoral level, we offer a post-doctoral program.

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Center on Race Religion, and Urban Life

Many of our majors have gone on to pursue doctorates at universities such as Harvard, Yale, Duke, Princeton, and the University of Chicago. Others are pursuing graduate degrees is law, medicine, public policy, and public health.