The Social Sciences Division is one of the two largest Divisions in Arts & Sciences at Brandeis.
The Division includes 19 Departments and Programs that award BA, MA and PhDs.
In the Fall of 2018, the Division included 145 faculty.
In 2018 the Division includes 190 enrolled graduate students in MA, MAT, MED and PhD programs.
Eight of the ten largest undergraduate majors awarding degrees in 2017 were in the social sciences.
The Division awarded approximately half of all undergraduate majors from 2012-2018 and half of all minors from 2012-2017.
About one-third of all university faculty in the fall of 2018 were in the social sciences.
In Fall 2018 about 75% of social science faculty are in tenured or tenure track positions.
Between 2010 and 2018, social science faculty were awarded $21 million in external funding with much of that ($15 million) going to faculty in the Psychology Department.