Overview

Course description

With the Politics and Data Analytics programme at The University of Manchester you will learn theories about politics and international relations, but they also learn how to translate these theories into empirical questions that can be studied using real life data.

Specifically, you learn data analytic and data science techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of policies, understand political behaviour, predict and classify political phenomena and describe and analyse networks of relationships between individuals, political agents or organisations.

By completing the core and optional units, you can gain sought-after skills, including:

how to collect, describe and visualise data;

how to build quantitative models to explain phenomena;

how to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of policies;

how to map and analyse complex social networks;

how to implement key machine learning algorithms;

how to implement data analytic techniques and data science algorithms using statistical software including R, as well as proprietary packages such as SPSS.

The pathway emphasises the application of modern data analytic methods to real life problems, although you will have the opportunity to learn some of the underlying theory, to progress further in your career to more advanced postgraduate courses and to more challenging scenarios in policy and industry.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Measuring Inequalities

Essentials of Survey Design and Analysis

Applied Statistics for Social Science

Quantitative Evaluation (of Policies, Interventions and Experiments)

Data Science Modelling

Advance Social Network Analysis

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-29 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-14 00:00:00

More details

After this date, students can still apply if courses have vacancies, up to 30 June.

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

90

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

360 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Manchester, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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90

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6.5

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General requirements

Typical A-level offer: ABB

Typical contextual A-level offer: BBB

Refugee/care-experienced offer: Applicants taking A Levels are normally expected to offer three full A Levels. If you’re taking more than three A Levels, these won’t be included in your offer. We will only make offers consisting of three A Levels.

Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 6,5,5 at Higher level, 34 points overall.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

27800 GBP / year

≈ 27800 GBP / year
Domestic Applies to you

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Citizens or residents

9535 GBP / year

≈ 9535 GBP / year

Living costs

Manchester

United Kingdom

645 - 1197 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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