Social Sciences with Data Science

About this course

The social sciences study human society in all its complexity, examining how people behave collectively, how institutions function, how inequality is structured and reproduced, and how social change happens. Data science provides the computational and statistical tools to analyse the large and complex datasets that increasingly make the social world visible, from administrative records and social media to surveys and sensor data. Combining the two equips you to ask genuinely social scientific questions and to bring rigorous quantitative methods to bear in answering them, a combination that is increasingly powerful and in demand. At University College London this three-year full-time programme sits at the intersection of these two domains. You will study the core disciplines of the social sciences, engaging with sociology, economics, political science and related fields and developing th

Where its graduates go

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