What is a good grad school for sociology ?

Question

If possible, southern US I'm from Baton Rouge,Louisiana(dat red stick)

Answer 1

The following ranking of graduate programs in Sociology is done by the National Research Council. It is based on the scholarly quality of the faculty and the effectiveness of the program in educating research scholars/scientists.

1 University of Chicago
2 University of Wisconsin Madison
3 University of California Berkeley
4 University of Michigan
5 University of California Los Angeles
6 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
7 Harvard University
8 Stanford University
9 Northwestern University
10 University of Washington
11 University of Pennsylvania
12 Indiana University
13 Princeton University
14 University of Arizona
15 Columbia University
16 University of Texas Austin
17 Johns Hopkins University
18 Pennsylvania State University
19 Yale University
20 Duke University
21 New York University
22 University of California San Diego
23 University of Calfornia Santa Barbara
24 University of Minnesota
25 State University of New York Stony Brook
25 Ohio State University

The list (ranking by reputation) continues on the first website below.

The second website contains a ranking by faculty publication in prestigious journals, and should be used to balance the reputational ranking.