The Department of Sociology at the University of Sussex is a small research-intensive Department offering high-quality teaching. We see Sociology as a discipline that explains major trends in society and as a distinctive and critical way of thinking about the social world.
The Department offers a comprehensive and innovative undergraduate degree in the field of sociology as well as postgraduate taught programmes and doctoral studies. Our research is world-class, with strengths in medicine and science, gender and inequality, and social theory and political sociology. Members of the Department are committed to the advancement of sociology as an interdisciplinary and globally oriented social science. We welcome students from all over the world.
The department was ranked 9th in The Times newspaper's Good University Guide for 2012, 11th in the UK in the 2012 Guardian Good University Guide, and 10th out of 89 sociology departments in the 2012 Complete University Guide published in the Independent.
