Graduate Programs in Social Statistics

Criteria: Graduate programs (Master's or PhD) housed in a department of mathematics, statistics, or biostatistics, or
entity that emphasizes statistics, with an explicit focus on social science or a group of faculty who are involved in soc
Social Science: includes education, political science, sociology, public policy, etc

University Department Program Name

Statistics and Data

Carnegie Mellon Science Statistics

Institute for Social

and Economic Quantitative Methods in the Social
Columbia University Research and Policy Sciences

Columbia University Statistics Statistics

MS with focus in Social Science and

Duke University Statistical Science Policy

Harvard Statistics Statistics

Applied Statistics,
Social Science, and MS in Applied Statistics for Social
New York University Humanities Science Research

Northwestern University Statistics Statistics

Penn State University Statistics Statistics

Rice Statistics Statistics

UCLA Statistics Statistics

UNC-Chapel Hill Public Health Biostatistics

University of California, Berkeley Statistics Statistics

University of California, Berkeley Public Health Biostatistics

University of Chicago Statistics Statistics

Public Health
University of Chicago Sciences Biostatistics
Behavioral and Joint Program in Survey
University of Maryland Social Sciences Methodology

Institute for Social

University of Michigan Research Program in Survey Methodology

University of Michigan Statistics Statistics

University of Michigan Biostatistics Biostatistics

University of Missouri Statistics Statistics

University of Pennsylvania Statistics Statistics

 Biostatistics,
Epidemiology, and
University of Pennsylvania Informatics Biostatistics

PhD Track for Statistics in the Social

University of Washington Statistics Sciences

Statistics and Data

UT Austin Sciences Statistics
tics, statistics, or biostatistics, or in a cross-disciplinary
f faculty who are involved in social science research.

Master's? PhD? URL

Statistical
Practice Yes http://www.stat.cmu.edu/ http://larc.smu.edu.sg/ http://www.stat.cmu.edu/NCRN/P

Yes No http://qmss.columbia.edu/academics/ http://applied.stat.columbia.edu/ https://cprl

Yes Yes http://stat.columbia.edu/

Yes with a focus
in Social
Science and Yes without
Policy focus area https://stat.duke.edu https://stat.duke.edu/ms/ms-focus-areas-tracks/socialscience-p

Data Science Yes https://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/ph-d-program https://www.iq.harvard.edu/

Yes No https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ash/ https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ash/applied_statistics/

Optional en
route to PhD Yes https://www.statistics.northwestern.edu

Yes Yes https://stat.psu.edu/ https://methodology.psu.edu/

Yes Yes https://statistics.rice.edu/

Yes Yes http://statistics.ucla.edu/ https://css.stat.ucla.edu/

Yes Yes https://sph.unc.edu/bios/biostatistics/

Yes Yes https://statistics.berkeley.edu/

Yes Yes http://sph.berkeley.edu/areas-study/biostatistics

Yes Yes https://www.stat.uchicago.edu/ http://www.norc.org/Pages/default.aspx https://qrm

No Yes https://pbhs.uchicago.edu/

Yes Yes https://jpsm.umd.edu/

Yes Yes https://lsa.umich.edu/stats https://isr.umich.edu/ https://psm.isr.umich.edu/

Yes Yes https://lsa.umich.edu/stats

Yes Yes https://sph.umich.edu/biostat/ https://sph.umich.edu/saber/

Yes Yes https://www.stat.missouri.edu/ http://sssc.coas.missouri.edu/

MBA Yes https://statistics.wharton.upenn.edu/ http://warrencenter.upenn.edu/

Yes Yes https://www.dbei.med.upenn.edu/

Yes (not
specialized) Yes https://www.stat.washington.edu/index.php/ http://www.csss.washington.edu/

Yes Yes https://stat.utexas.edu/ https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Departments/IROM/Deg

Relevant Centers Comments
Cross-disciplinary research includes public policy
and social sciences, and education and
Living Analytics Research Centre, National educational data analysis - both sections have
Science Foundation Census Research Network several faculty members involved; LARC looks at
(NCRN) for Social and Economic Research and
Institute behavioral and social network analytics
Policy, National Opinion Research Center (NORC),
Center for Public Research and Leadership
(CPRL), Applied Statistics Center, Population NORC is through Uchicago but collaborates with
Institute
Researchfor Social and Economic Research and QMSS; CPRL is a one semester program
Center
Policy, Applied Statistics Center (National
Opinion Research Center (NORC), Center for Other than the ISERP and ASC, the rest of the
Public Research and Leadership (CPRL), centers are not listed through the stats dept
Population Research Center) website but I found them through ISERP
The program research areas include
"Government, Social, and Public Policy",
- "Health/Health Policy", and "Social Networks"
Description discusses social sciences research and
Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Program some faculty involved in social network research
on Survey Research etc; IQSS has several stats faculty members

Center for Practice and Research at the The PhD programs are mainly focused on
Intersection of Information, Society, and education and do not seem to have a statistics
Methodology emphasis

Department encourages cross-disciplinary work

Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences and the faculty has wide application interests to
working group social science fields.

The Methodology Center was listed as an "Other

University Center" on the statistics dept page and
does "social, behavioral, and health sciences
The Methodology Center research"

About section mentions social sciences; research

- areas lists social sciences

Center for Social Statistics

 Their research areas include survey sampling and
collaborative work in "psychology and mental
- health" that mainly seems to be psychiatry

Description says that they look at problems in

areas such as sociology, political science, and
education. Social sciences only mentioned in
description, but there are faculty that do social
- science research

Center for Social Medicine, Population Center,

Center to Advance Science in Policy and
Regulation, Center on the Developing A lot of centers that include social science
Adolescent, Prevention Research Center research

National Opinion Research Center (NORC), The description of the stats dept mentions
Center for Health and the Social Sciences, interdisciplinary research in survey methodology,
Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, but the centers that I found do not have clear link
Behavioral, and Health Sciences with stats dept

Their research areas include mental health studies

and social epidemiology and the description says
that faculty collaborate with facult in sociology,
Center for Health and the Social Sciences social work, public policy, psychology

- Not directly through department of statistics

Institute for Social Research (Survey Research This institute is separate from the Statistics
Center) department
ISR, Statistical Analysis of Biomedical and
Educational Research (SABER)

Statistical Analysis of Biomedical and Educational A lot of the SABER center is biomedical research
Research (SABER), ISR but it does incorporate educational as well
Master's program has an applied track that can
focus on social statistics; center website seems a
Social Science Statistics Center little outdated

Website mentions public policy and the Warren

Center looks at social networks among other
networks and has strong collaborations with stats
Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences dept
 Professor research areas include psychosocial
research (Hwang, Li, and Morales), a lot of their
- publications look into mental health interventions

Looks like the social science track is mainly for

Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences PhD students

A lot of professors have joint appointments in

IROM dept which seems to be public policy
related but not completely social science; faculty
Department of Information, Risk, and Operations members do risk-related research and one does
Management public policy work
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Low = centers have distant connection or mainly just the website mentions social scienc

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Schools that DON'T have social science emphasis
School Notes
Stanford Stats Has a stats for social good club but that's it; website doesn't mention social science
Harvard Biostats Harvard has an Opinion Research Center but doesn't have affiliations with Biostats
JHU Biostats Centers don't have social focus and website doesn’t directly mention it
JHU Stats No apparent social emphasis
UNC Stats Psychometrics only
NYU Stats Distant connections
Florida Stats Didn't see mention of social on website
NCSU Stats
ebsite doesn't mention social science
oesn't have affiliations with Biostats dept
oesn’t directly mention it