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芝加哥大学（The University of Chicago），1890年由石油大王约翰·洛克菲勒创办，素以盛产诺贝尔奖得主而闻名。位于美国国际金融中心芝加哥，是世界著名私立研究型大学，是世界经济学、法学、社会学最重要的研究教学中心之一。

芝加哥大学在2018 US News美国综合排名第3，2018年QS世界大学排名世界第9，2018年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列世界第9。

Master of Arts in Computational Social Science

The Master of Arts in Computational Social Science is a two-year program of graduate study. It has a structured curriculum that is demanding but accessible for anyone with late-blooming interests in quantitative or social scientific research. The program will give you the ability to apply cutting edge technologies and statistical techniques to data sets that are orders of magnitude larger than one normally encounters as a social science investigator.

【项目优势】

For those new to the social sciences, this is an opportunity to see where your computer science and statistical skills can go, with innovative applications to problems of massive societal interest. For those new to computational methods, this is a chance to develop the tools necessary to make new and exciting contributions, tools that will shape the originality and power of your work for years to come.

Our structured curriculum will develop the tools and applications necessary to make important contributions across the social sciences. Depending on your field, that could mean problems of memory formation, language use, knowledge networks, changing historical patterns in the distribution of material and cultural objects, the conditions under which social movements succeed or fail, or how partisan identification shapes social and economic behavior.

小班教学：该项目采取小班教学的模式，2017年招收的学生人数为37人，小班教学有利于学生和教授的密切互动交流。

As part of their degree requirements, all students attend our weekly Computational Social Science Workshop. The Workshop gives you a chance to see emergent computational work in the social sciences, to learn new methodological tools, to meet leading computational researchers from around the world, and to forge connections with faculty and students across campus.）。

This weekly workshop highlights the work of those pioneering data science analytical techniques and social science and computation methods while bringing together graduate students, post-docs, and faculty all working at the nexus of computation and big, social science questions. The workshop also allows regular participants to share works in progress for feedback, fosters robust dialogue between young scholars in these emerging fields, and showcases local scholars leading pedagogical seminars on new papers or methods.

【STEM项目】

该项目是一个STEM项目，留学生可以获得两年的OPT！对留学生来说可以大大增加留美实习和工作的机会。

【就业指导】

该项目的毕业生可以选择就业或继续读博深造。该项目培养学生在其专业研究领域拥有很强的竞争力。如想选择就业，该项目也会每周提供职业发展研讨会。该项目的职业生涯规划负责人会帮助学生寻找实习机会，也会帮助学生寻找合适的工作。

Our in-house Director of Career Services is committed to securing the return on investment that you deserve. You can look forward to a variety of programs and services:

Weekly programming, including on-campus recruitment by different employers

l Career mentors-in-residence outlining how to gain a foothold in their industries

l Annual Career Conference

l Weekly jobs and internship digest that is geared to our Computation students

l Individual and small group career advising

l Career workshops on building a network, informational interviewing, resume and cover letters, and interview and negotiation strategies.

l We expect our graduates to compete for top-tier PhD admission, or to pursue professional work in which the application of computationally-assisted research will be of tremendous value in many fields.