Master's Degree in Research Methodology in Social Sciences
What is the Master?
The Master's Degree in Research Methodology in Social Sciences provides methodological tools, both quantitative and qualitative, to successfully tackle academic research and collaborate in research teams.
It covers the processes of literature review, design and data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis, writing up and dissemination of the results.
The methodological, ethical and epistemological foundations of the whole process allow the researcher to be trained solidly to work in higher research institutions.
- CentersCiencias Humanas y Sociales (Comillas CIHS)
- LanguagesEnglish, Spanish
- CertificationOfficial master's degrees
- ModalityHybrid
- Duration1 year (60 ECTS)
- Starts On06/10/2025
- Seats25
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Why study at Comillas?
We offer interactive online and face-to-face training, combining workshops and face-to-face classes with online materials to promote flexible learning, adapted to the researcher in training, promoting direct contact with leading research teams.
We also have experimental laboratories, recording and analysis of audiovisual media, a Clinical Psychology Unit, and the best tools for statistical analysis, artificial intelligence and text analysis.
This Master's in Research Methodology prepares you to understand the conceptual bases of research and to know how to develop data collection and analysis plans that allow you to answer the questions formulated with rigour and confidence. It will also allow you to collaborate in national and international research teams and keep you up to date in social science research processes.
Study plan
Materias
Professional projection
Academic and research career at university
Research teams in higher research organisations and institutions
The Master provides the resources to review scientific literature, design scientific studies, choose and use data collection strategies and master analytical tools, from both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
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Information for students
CIHS Comillas
Cantoblanco Campus
Since its foundation, the Faculties of Human and Social Sciences, Theology and Canon Law at Comillas Pontifical University have had the vocation to promote humanism and plurality. It is defined by its desire to train people capable of taking thought and ideas to the highest levels, and to give them the necessary skills to be useful and improve life in the complex world in which we live.
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Because Comillas studies are in high demand and places are limited, the best candidates have to be selected through admission tests.
Each class has its own tutor, whose function is to integrate the student into the group and to pay attention to their academic performance. Furthermore, at Comillas, the teaching system is distinguished, among other characteristics, by the personalised attention and the fluid and permanent relationship between teachers and students.
The Comillas education system is especially oriented towards the relationship with the reality of companies, institutions, organisations and professional practice. The Careers, Internships and Employment Guidance Service (OPE) is responsible for providing students with internships related to their studies in order to enrich their training. In the 2022-23 academic year, 7,101 student internships in companies were managed.
The Professional Careers, Internships and Employment Guidance Service (OPE) is the University's service dedicated to informing, guiding and collaborating in the insertion of recent graduates in the labour market or in the projection of the professional careers of Comillas graduates, for which it has an online tool that directly connects candidates with 8,302 companies with which Comillas maintains a relationship. During the 2022-23 academic year, 1,542 job offers were managed. Of the total number of graduates from the 2021 graduating class, 92% are employed, either working or furthering their studies, within six months of completing their studies.
Contact us if you need help
Prospective Students Office
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
C/ Universidad Comillas, 3 - 28049 Madrid (Cantoblanco campus) Tel.: 34 91 542 28 00, ext. 2825 futurosalumnos@comillas.edu
Director of the Master's Degree
Rafael Jódar Anchía
rafajodar@comillas.edu