Overview

The MSocSc in the field of Social Data Analytics at The University of Hong Kong meets the increasing demand from undergraduate students for acquiring the technical and analytical skills necessary to leverage modern computational modeling methods and large naturalistic datasets to uncover how people think, decide, and act in groups, markets, and states. It is designed to provide skills that are highly sought by both industry and PhD programmes.

Key Features

A lot of social sciences data requires insights that combine data science methods, tools and techniques with disciplinary knowledge from social sciences theories and concepts. In the private, public and academic sectors, there is a strong demand in the job market for social scientists who are also trained in data science. The MSocSc in the field of SDA programme pools computational research expertise across the Faculty of Social Sciences to offer students quantitative, computational, and data analytical skills and the insight to apply them appropriately and innovatively to social sciences questions and prepare students for careers in academic research, NGO and governmental agency work, business, advertising, and marketing, and other jobs across the knowledge economy that require integrating social sciences domain expertise with large datasets in computational systems.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Social Data Analytics
Data Analytics
Social Sciences
Big Data

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months
Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-28 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

80

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR)

Disciplines

Sociology Data Analytics View 7 other Masters in Sociology in Hong Kong (SAR)

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Applicants shall preferably have a Bachelor's degree in one of the fields of social sciences: Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Communication, Economics, Education Studies, Ethnic Studies, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Studies and Planning, or a closely related field; or a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field with an additional major/minor or substantial advanced coursework in one or more social sciences domains; and preferably have pre-existing training in statistics and/or formal logic or prior experience with one or more technical domains, including programming, statistics, formal logic, calculus, linear algebra, etc.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

262500 HKD / year

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Domestic Applies to you

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Citizens or residents

262500 HKD / year

≈ 262500 HKD / year

Living costs

Hong Kong

Hong Kong (SAR)

13720 - 23419 HKD / month

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Funding

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