Sociology

  • Master
  • Social Sciences

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.

Programme length

1.5 years (3 semesters)

Languages of instruction
French, English

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)

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
www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/formations/inscription/admissionmaster

Deadline: 28 February 2026

www.unige.ch/enrolment

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

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)

GENEVA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Uni Mail
40 bd du Pont-d'Arve
1211 Genève

STUDENT AFFAIRS
T. +41 (0)22 379 80 00
secretariat-etudiants-sds(at)unige.ch

ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Yali Chen
T. +41 (0)22 379 89 66
Yali.Chen(at)unige.ch