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Social Data Analytics

Programs

Programs

The SoDA degree programs were developed out of Penn State’s NSF-funded Big Data Social Science (BDSS) IGERT Ph.D. training program that ran from 2012 to 2018, and its precursor, the Quantitative Social Science Initiative (QuaSSI) that ran from 2004 to 2018.

SoDA offers three programs:

An undergraduate B.S. major
A dual-title Ph.D.
A doctoral minor

I am interested in the Undergraduate Major

Develop a unique combination of highly valued skills, opening up many opportunities to learn from social data and apply that knowledge to solving real world problems.

I am interested in the Graduate Program

Attain and be identified with an interdisciplinary array of tools, techniques, and methodologies for social data analytics.