| SOCIOLOGY | |||||||
| Earlham and peer institutions - weighted ranks among 1,469 institutions | |||||||
| Institution Name | Weighted Rank: 1971-1980 | Weighted Rank: 1976-1985 | Weighted Rank: 1981-1990 | Weighted Rank: 1986-1995 | Weighted Rank: 1991-2000 | Weighted Rank: 1995 - 2004 | Weighted Rank: 1975 - 2004 |
| Reed College | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 24 | 1 |
| Oberlin College | 7 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 3 |
| Haverford College | 84 | 59 | 66 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Carleton College | 8 | 7 | |||||
| Beloit College | 25 | 8 | |||||
| Earlham College | 223 | 56 | 37 | 27 | 10 | 19 | 18 |
| Grinnell College | 11 | 25 | |||||
| Kalamazoo College | 100 | 26 | |||||
| Hampshire College | 20 | 28 | |||||
| Whitman College | 12 | 31 | |||||
| Macalester College | 28 | 44 | |||||
| Pitzer College | 71 | 46 | |||||
| Bates College | 73 | 52 | |||||
| College of Wooster | 119 | 58 | |||||
| Denison University | 58 | 60 | |||||
| Franklin and Marshall College | 23 | 66 | |||||
| Knox College | 150 | 78 | |||||
| Occidental College | 299 | 83 | |||||
| Trinity College (Hartford, CT) | 87 | 95 | |||||
| Rhodes College | 64 | 108 | |||||
| St Olaf College | 126 | 115 | |||||
| Kenyon College | 83 | 123 | |||||
| Lawrence University | 436 | 147 | |||||
| Washington and Lee University | 306 | 180 | |||||
| Colorado College | 63 | 186 | |||||
| Guilford College | 250 | 230 | |||||
| Connecticut College | 384 | 261 | |||||
| Hamilton College | 141 | 296 | |||||
| Lake Forest College | 393 | 437 | |||||
| Centre College | 799 | 467 | |||||
| Lafayette College | 424 | 564 | |||||
| Scripps College | 799 | 1,098 | |||||
| University of the South | 799 | 1,098 | |||||