This major prepares students to understand, engage with, and innovatively solve evolving, complex multi-scale challenges such as climate change, transnational political violence, cybersecurity and privacy, social polarization, and inequality. This major will draw on and enhance Pitt’s strength in both social science theory, broadly construed, as well as computing, informatics, and networked systems. Students will gain an understanding of modern computational tools and resources, and social, political, and economic concepts from core social science classes.
What can you do with a degree in computational social science?
Students have a broad range of professional opportunities. Many students go on to pursue graduate degrees in information science, social science, and data science, and to work in fields like consulting, tech, start-ups, analytics firms, non-profits, and beyond.
View full computational social science degree requirements in the Pitt Course Catalog.