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MSc - Master of Science
The University of Manchester
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
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MSc - Master of Science
The University of Manchester
Full Time
SEP-25
1 year
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Course description
The course offers a comprehensive training in social network analysis, covering theories, methods and applications of social networks in social sciences.
Students will learn the theoretical foundations of social network analysis, the constitutive elements of research design, techniques for data collection, advance methods for social network data analysis and visualization, statistical modelling of social networks and mixed methods.
The learning environment will include face to face lectures, computer assisted workshops, and applications of social network theories and methods to a variety of substantive fields in social sciences.
With an interdisciplinary combination of lecturers from the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis , who specialise in mathematics, social statistics, sociology and criminology, the teaching team will guide and supervise students in all the aspects related to social network research.
Areas of applications include (but are not limited to) online networks, criminal networks, health network, cultural networks, scientific networks, migration networks and academic networks.
Aims
Teaching and learning
Career opportunities
This degree is designed to ensure highly numerate, research-oriented and employable graduates, and will provide you with the skills necessary for roles within:
academia;
government departments;
research institutes;
commercial research.
Our graduates can find career opportunities as consultants or analysts in organizational development to help companies optimise their work structure; as data scientists with specialised skills in network analysis in areas like social media analytics; and as data scientists/data analysts in governmental agencies like the Home Office and Trading Standards.
A bachelor degree with honours (minimum 2:1 or international equivalent) in social sciences, mathematics, physics, computer sciences, or the overseas equivalent. The entry requirements are intentionally kept open as SNA is an interdisciplinary approach that attracts scholars from both humanities and natural sciences.
Students living in
Domestic
£13,000 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£24,500 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£24,500 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.
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