Behavioral and Social Sciences for Public Policy Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

Overview

The Behavioral and Social Sciences for Public Policy course from Mohammed VI Polytechnic University is designed to meet a need for knowledge that is considered increasingly important today, alongside purely economic knowledge: understanding populations in order to set up efficient incentives that meet public policy objectives.

Managed by an international team of multi-disciplinary professors – cognitive psychologists, economists, sociologists, computational social scientists, anthropologists, philosophers – the Master is designed to give students robust and evidence-based tools to improve public policy in fields as varied as education, environment, health, safety, employment, gender equality, sustainable development or web information circulation and regulation.

This Master – the only one of its kind in Africa – is part of the international academic dynamic that today leads the most renowned universities to develop similar programs, aiming to use cutting-edge, quantitative as qualitative, methods to understand populations. The last semester of the Master's program is devoted to a research project intended for publication in a top-ranking academic journal.

Career opportunities:

This Master trains new profiles, endowed with skills that are highly sought after on the job market today. Job opportunities include amanager or project manager in the collection and analysis of data collected from populations, in the public sector (administrations,ministries, local authorities) as well as in the private sector (offices studies, consulting firm, non-governmental organizations,associations, marketing agencies).

The possible fields of application are numerous and varied:opinion polls and studies, in particular political, managerial evaluation of an organization, household surveys (consumption,employment, social and cultural practices), demographic surveys, training surveys and the dissemination of new ideas or convictions,study of the perceptions of target populations of public policies (for example in the field of social policies), regional planning orpolicies of the employment, education surveys, inclusiveness, participatory policies, gender issues and sustainable developmentand the environment.

In addition, the solid capacities acquired by the graduates of this Master in some academic disciplines (behavioral sciences, sociology,political science) associated with their original profile, allow students to pursue doctoral studies that are public policy oriented.