Master's Programme in Applied Social Research

Entry requirements

General entry requirements

Specific entry requirements: Bachelor´s degree in Social Sciences including at least 60 ECTS credits in Sociology.

Months of entry

August, September

Course content

The Master's Programme in Applied Social Research is a specialized and research-oriented Master's programme with the objective of training highly qualified sociologists with special skills in statistical and other quantitative methods.

Sociology is the science about human social behaviour and relations between people and societies. Frequent sociological issues deal with processes and patterns of the interaction of groups and individuals, forms of organization of social groups, relations between groups, influence of groups on the behaviour of individuals and differencies among people in terms of power resources and life chances.

We welcome students who want to attain an advanced knowledge of quantitative social research methods, and how these can be used to address problems where the empirical analysis of data is a crucial component. The programme is a specialized and research-oriented Master's programme with the objective of training highly qualified sociologists with special skills in statistical and other quantitative methods. The distinguishing feature of the programme is its combination of rigorous sociological theory with quantitative empirical methods to analyze and contribute to the solution of challenging problems in sociology and society. The programme meets an increasing demand in public authorities and firms for skills in research design, measurement, data collection and data analysis.

Teachers at the programme are researchers that are highly active in the international research community, in several of Stockholm University's leading research areas.

Sociology at Stockholm University is continuously ranked high in the world according to both the QS World University Rankings by subject and the Shanghai ranking (Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, ARWU).