What can you do with a Sociology Degree? 

B.A. SOCIOLOGY

• Service Agencies
• Personnel & Human Resources
• Private Businesses
• Health Care
• Federal Investigative Agencies (ATF, DEA, FBI, Customs, IRS, Secret Service, US Marshals)
• State Investigators
• Federal, State, and Local Probation/Parole Officers
• Corporate Investigators, Insurance Fraud
• Rehabilitation/Counseling Programs
• Corrections Administration
• Police Departments, Detective Work
• Graduate School
• Law School

Jobs held by our alumni

B.A. Sociology

• Human Resources Manager
• Partner in Literacy Agency
• Mayor
• Hospital Administrator
• Museum Director
• Director, YMCA
• Community Service Researcher
• Rape Crisis Worker
• Head Start Administrator
• City Police Officer, University Police Officer
• Detective
• Investigators: Corporate, Insurance Fraud, Court, ATF, Military
• FBI Agent
• DEA Agent
• Special Agent, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Glendale, CA
• Probation Officer
• Counselors: Safe Landings, Youth, Drug Rehab, Planned Parenthood, Battered Women's Shelter
• Data Analysis for Breakthrough Schools, Cleveland, Ohio 
• Assistant Professor, NC Agricultural & Technical State University
• Asst. Professor of Criminology at Eastern Connecticut State University
• Data Analyst for Florida Public Schools
• Data and Research Analyst for Forsyth Futures, a non-profit in Winston-Salem, NC. 
• Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dept of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• Executive Director, Research Strategy at Sharecare in GA
• Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University

Advising for Sociology

Contact BCAS Academic Advising for more career info: 

Buchtel College of Arts & Sciences

Academic Advising

College of Arts & Sciences building, Room 118

330-972-7880

Career search assistance

UA's Career Center helps sociology majors and alumni with searches.