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Gabriel Negretto (Professor of Political Science and Director of the PhD Programme of the Political Science Institute of the Catholic University of Santiago de Chile), joins the IC3JM as María Zambrano Senior Researcher in Political Science. |
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Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University is a visiting researcher at the IC3JM during the fall semester. . |
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Beatriz Magaloni, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University is a visiting researcher at the IC3JM during the fall semester. |
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Harris Mylonas, Professor of Political Science, George Washington University, is a visiting researcher at the IC3JM during the 2023/24 academic year. |
September saw the start of the eighth edition of the two-year Master’s in Social Sciences; the sixth edition of the one-year Master’s in Political and Electoral Analysis; and the second edition of the one-year Master’s in Computational Social Sciences.
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Master in Social Sciences. | Master’s Degree in Computational Social Science | Master’s Degree in Political and Electoral Analysis. |
This is a two-year (120 credits) academic, research-based Master’s degree, conducted entirely in English. It is an internationally renowned Master’s degree in the field of Social Sciences, as demanding, intense and rigorous as the best postgraduate programmes in the United States and Europe.
The aim of this Master’s is to teach students to conduct high-level research in the central themes of the Social Sciences. The Master provides advanced and interdisciplinary training in the Social Sciences, with a strong emphasis on methodology and quantitative analysis.
The Master covers three fields: political science, sociology and economic history.
During the first year, all courses are common, with two distinct blocks: on the one hand, substantive courses in sociological analysis, social stratification, comparative politics, economic history and political economy; on the other hand, methodological courses in statistics, game theory and research design.
During the second year, there are some additional methodological courses and the student can choose one of the three specialisation tracks (political science, sociology and economic history).
Master’s students can continue their research in the PhD in Social Sciences offered by the UC3M Department of Social Sciences in collaboration with the IC3JM.
The Master’s teaching staff comprises members of the IC3JM and the Department of Social Sciences of the Universidad Carlos III and visiting professors.
More information can be found at the Master’s website.
This is an official, professionally-oriented Master’s degree that lasts one year and is taught entirely in English. Computational Social Science is a new and exciting field that combines the tools of computer science and data science with the knowledge of the Social Sciences. This Master’s degree offers specialised training in new computational approaches based on predictive modelling, text analytics and network science to analyse society in new and revealing ways.
The Master is aimed at students with a background in Social Sciences, Economics and Communication, and qualifies them to work in professional and academic fields, as well as to lead and supervise interdisciplinary teams in the field of Computational Social Science.
More information can be found at the Master’s website.
This is an official, professionally-oriented Master’s degree that seeks to train analysts who have an in-depth knowledge of both political surveys and public opinion and the strategies followed by political and social actors. It lasts one year (60 credits). The Master’s degree is taught in Spanish and is aimed at all students and professionals interested in understanding public opinion, knowing the tools for its analysis (survey techniques, graphic analysis, experiments, big data analysis) and conducting political and electoral analysis, both academically and professionally.
It offers a wide variety of courses, taught by some of the best experts in public opinion and politics in Spain, both from universities and research companies.
The Master’s degree includes internships in companies and research institutes. More information can be found at the Master’s website.
Carlos III University offers five full two-year scholarships for the Master’s in Social Sciences. Four of these scholarships are financed by the Department of Social Sciences and one, the Juan March Servera scholarship, is offered by the Carlos III-Juan March Institute.
These scholarships are open to any student (Spanish or foreign) with excellent academic performance, a high level of English and a strong motivation for study and research in the social sciences.
The IC3JM also offers three tuition grants for the two years of the Master’s programme, with an endowment equivalent to the cost of tuition for a student from the European Union (approximately 2,900 euros). It is not necessary to be a citizen of an EU country to apply.
Second year scholarships may be suspended if the student does not pass one or more courses during the first year of the Master. This condition applies to both full scholarships and enrolment grants.
More information on all scholarships and grants can be found at the scholarships’ website.
The IC3JM and the Carlos III University have signed an agreement with the Fulbright Commission to award a full scholarship for the Master in Social Sciences. More information about the call for applications here.
