Address social challenges using career-advancing data research techniques.
About the Master of Science in Applied Quantitative Methods and Social Analysis
Now offered in Arlington, starting Fall 2024.
The Master of Science in Applied Quantitative Methods and Social Analysis is an interdisciplinary, innovative, and flexible degree within Northeastern’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities. The program is designed to train ambitious social scientists in research methods, analytical techniques and strategies, computational tools, and quantitative skills needed to address today’s most pressing societal challenges.
By choosing this program, you'll have the unique opportunity to:
- Earn your master's degree in as few as eight courses.
- Learn from real-world experts who are leading scholars and researchers in their fields, spanning a variety of advanced methods.
- Choose to study on-campus in Boston or Arlington, 100% online, or a hybrid of the two.
- Focus on what area within applied quantitative methods and social analysis most interests you by choosing one of our five-degree concentrations:
- Data Analytics
- Computational Social Science
- Network Analysis in the Social Sciences
- Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences
- Information ethics
- Strengthen your resumé while gaining practical, actionable knowledge through class projects and real-world work assignments, which are integrated into the curriculum to provide applied opportunities to put research into practice.
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“The Master of Science in Applied Quantitative Methods and Social Analysis is a sign that the utility of advanced methodological and statistical tools is no longer limited to the ivory tower and journal articles. Rather, these tools enable our graduates to contribute to an ever-changing society, where the ability to transform data into knowledge is a leading commodity.”
– Professor Dan O’Brien
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.