Columbia University, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences MA Program

Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) is an interdisciplinary social science master of arts degree program that focuses on quantitative methods. QMSS integrates the perspectives and research strategies of six social science disciplines: Economics, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Statistics. It is structured to bring together a group of students with widely-varying backgrounds, drawing on their different strengths and interests in a core set of classes, and learning from their coursework and from each other.