The Master in
Sociology

offers students the critical tools and means to evaluate social, organisational, and individual dynamics in the economic, political, and social spheres of the modern world. The programme is aimed at training future sociologists in the fundamental qualitative and quantitative methods of the discipline: digital, visual, and anthropological methods, as well as network construction and analysis. The programme is designed around a full-scale group research project that allows students to put the methodologies they have studied into practice. In this stimulating environment, students will learn how to create problems and engineer their solutions, and how to define the terms of a research project and carry it out successfully. Individual coaching means students can develop conceptual and methodological autonomy, allowing them to make their own unique contributions to sociological knowledge.

www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/formations/masters/sociologie

Programme length

1.5 years (3 semesters)

Languages of instruction

French, English

Conditions of registration

www.unige.ch/conditions/MA

Admission Conditions

A Bachelor in Sociology or an equivalent degree in another field, by successful completion of co-requisite courses (6 to 30 credits).

www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/etudiants/reglements
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Applications

Deadline: 28 February 2025

www.unige.ch/enrolment

The Master in Sociology

3 semesters (max. 5 semesters) | 90 ECTS credits
Sociological Practice (Required courses) (24 credits):
  • Research forum and master class in Sociology
  • Research Workshop: Collective Inquiry
Elective teaching methods (18 credits):
  • Network Analysis
  • Advanced Qualitative Methods, etc.
Thematic studies (option classes) and electives (24 credits):
  • Cities and social change
  • Global Health
  • Transnational Migration and Social Relations of Gender, Race and Class
  • Organisations
  • Science, technology and society
  • Sociology of life course, etc.
Master's thesis or work placement dissertation (24 credits)

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Mobility

Master's students are permitted to go on exchange for one semester. Students may go on exchange as early as their second semester but may earn no more than 30 credits at another university. The dissertation cannot be substituted.

www.unige.ch/exchange

Professional Prospects

The Master of Arts in Sociology leads to a number of opportunities both in Switzerland and abroad in:

  • Media 
  • Culture
  • Insurance and banking
  • Marketing and advertising
  • Public administrations
  • Research (private or public sector)

Contact information

Ms Yali Chen
T. +41 (0)22 379 89 66
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