Where can your student actually get into sociology?

• 923 colleges nationwide offer a bachelor's sociology program: 913 awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions); 1 more report a sociology admit rate in the UC/CSU data; 9 more carry program earnings in federal outcome data but no 2022-23 degree count under these program codes.
• Largest programs by graduates in 2022-23: University of California-Santa Barbara (637), University of California-Los Angeles (630), California State University-Northridge (419).
• 60 of them are in California, the one state whose public systems (the University of California and the CSU) publish an admit rate into the major.
• Hardest reported gate into the program (only the UC and the CSU publish one): University of California-Berkeley — Sociology, Fall 2025: 2,194 applied, 237 admitted (11%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Fresno — 97.6% (126 applied, 123 admitted, Fall 2025).
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: Columbia University in the City of New York, $101,536.
• Lowest average net price with aid: Texas A&M University-Central Texas, $1,300 per year.

No California campus in this data reports sociology on the transfer side only, so a campus missing a first-year row here did not report the major rather than closing it to freshmen. At the selective campuses the gate to plan around is the campus admission decision itself, which is where the reported number comes from. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · California only (60 colleges, with the UC and CSU gates) →

Every college, one row each

Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings, then by graduates. Degree awarded is the program the college conferred bachelor's degrees in during 2022-23, with the number of graduates (federal IPEDS completions). Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.