Master's Degree in Applied Analysis for Social Sciences

Admission and graduation profile

Admission profile

People who enter the master's degree must have a vocation and interest in applied analysis techniques, both for professional development and to begin their research career. The University Master's Degree in Applied Analysis for Social Sciences is especially aimed at graduates of degrees in Social and Legal Sciences with at least two subjects on quantitative methods, such as degrees in Business Administration and Management, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Accounting and Finance, Economics, Geography and Land Management, Sociology, and Tourism and, to a lesser extent, degrees in Social Sciences with less training in quantitative methods, such as degrees in Pedagogy, Journalism, Social Work or Labour Relations, among others. In order for graduates of these degrees to be able to access the master's degree, additional training will be required. Also eligible are graduates who have developed skills in the use of numerical and quantitative methods, such as Environmental Sciences, Statistics, Computer Engineering or Mathematics, and who are highly motivated to introduce problem solving from a Social Sciences perspective.

More specifically, the master's degree is aimed at those who have completed degrees in Social and Legal Sciences or, being from other branches of knowledge, have basic knowledge of numerical and statistical methods, and who want to deepen or update themselves in:

  1. The study of relevant aspects in the Social Sciences from a multidisciplinary perspective.
  2. Knowledge and deepening of social research techniques and methods (quantitative and qualitative) to begin a research career.
  3. The use of applied research methods for the analysis of economic, social or environmental indicators, the preparation of economic reports, and efficiency studies and multi-criteria and multi-variate analysis with applications to the professional sector and consulting.
  4. Learning advanced quantitative methods using extensive statistical and econometric packages with real-life case applications, based on scientific work or consulting applications.
  5. The preparation and design of social surveys and the analysis of their results and implications.
  6. The analysis of the effectiveness of public policies on issues such as the fight against social inequality, improvements in health equity or the benefit of sustainable growth.
  7. The application of new technologies for the use of mass data and techniques of geographic information systems applied in studies related to social sciences.

The master's degree will be taught in the official language of Spanish and requires students to have basic prior knowledge of statistical methods and data management.

Graduation profile

There is a growing demand for qualified professionals with a technical profile from the public administrations of the Canary Islands and from the private business environment. The Master's Degree in Applied Analysis for Social Sciences from the ULL is committed to training professionals and researchers from a multidisciplinary approach so that they are able to analyse and solve problems of social and environmental interest using rigorous applied analysis techniques. The master's degree thus maintains a firm commitment to preparing graduates to work in private companies such as consultancies and offices, public bodies, research centres in the tasks of transferring results to other socio-economic agents, or to begin a research career both regionally and in the rest of the European context.

The master's degree also commits to and supports graduates in pursuing a quality research career. In general, the training content of the proposed master's degree will contribute to improving the training of graduates who wish to begin an academic career at the ULL as well as at other national or foreign universities in the field of social sciences.

A demanding, high-quality and eminently practical training of graduates in social sciences in applied analysis methods will also serve to train future researchers at academic and research centres in the regional sphere.