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Social Sciences with Data Science - BA (Hons)

University of Warwick

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  • Qualification

    Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

  • Location

    Main Site

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    28-SEP-26

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary

Social Sciences with Data Science combines social inquiry with data analytics. This course is multidisciplinary, including subjects such as Sociology and Economics, with options in Politics and International Studies and Interdisciplinary Methodologies, among others. It is driven by offering a comprehensive understanding how data can be obtained, managed, and analysed to better explain social, economic, and human processes in contemporary societies.Key questions addressed include: How can data help to explain complex social and economic processes? What is good data, and how can it be collected? How can data be analysed and presented effectively?Social Sciences with Data Science combines social inquiry with data analytics. This course is multidisciplinary, including subjects such as Sociology and Economics, with options in Politics and International Studies and Interdisciplinary Methodologies, among others. It is driven by offering a comprehensive understanding how data can be obtained, managed, and analysed to better explain social, economic, and human processes in contemporary societies.Key questions addressed include: How can data help to explain complex social and economic processes? What is good data, and how can it be collected? How can data be analysed and presented effectively?The course encourages a critical understanding of the role of data in data driven societies, by developing your skills in data collection, analysis, and presentation across disciplines. Studying this multidisciplinary programme, focusing on data skills, will enable you to make sense of data and to work with data towards solving social and economic problems.Building on the strengths of the Departments of Sociology and Economics, as well as the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Warwick, this course offers you multidisciplinary learning, hands-on teaching and research opportunities in data analysis, as well as placement opportunities. Topics you will explore include techniques for collecting data, including web surveys, text data and social media data approaches to analysing data using software employed in data science the ethics of collecting and analysing data, including data justice and algorithmic fairness and applying data analysis to questions of economic and social development and economic and social inequalities.The course includes a work placement opportunity, during which you can apply your skills to solve real-world problems in an employer project. The multidisciplinary focus provides a thorough yet broad understanding of the issues, key concepts and approaches, as well as the challenges of data-driven societies.

Application deadline

14/01/2026

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University of Warwick

University of Warwick

  • University League Table

    9th

  • Campus address

    University of Warwick, University of Warwick, Coventry, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom

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Students come to Warwick from approximately 150 countries.
Many scholarships are available for overseas students.
On and off-campus accommodation options available.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Computer Science

    7th out of 117 2

    9th out of 101 1

  • Entry standards

    / Max 223
    197 88%

    8th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    93.0 93%

    14th

    2

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.94 73%

    81st

    24

  • Entry standards

    / Max 210
    138 66%

    29th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    82.0 82%

    3rd

    2

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.16 79%

    24th

    18

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