Master in Political and Electoral Analysis

(C) Compulsory: 54 ECTS

Master's Thesis: 6 ECTS

course Programs

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GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION

☛ First year offered: 2018

• Information about Master's Degree
• Verification Report
• External evaluation and Monitoring Reports

QUALITY INDICATORS

☛ Master's Degree indicators

☛ Labour insertion indicators

PROGRAMME’S QUALITY ASSURANCE

The Academic Committee of the Master’s programme complies with the SGIC-UC3M and it is responsible for the follow-up, analysis, review, assessment and quality of the program, it contributes with proposals to improve the program and produces the “Memoria Académica de Titulación” (Programme Report).

• Academic Committee

FACULTY AND COURSE PLAN

☛ Curriculum subjects and their faculty

Graduate Profile and Competences

• Graduate profile and competences

Application

The request must be submitted electronically through our application system. Before beginning the admission process, please read the following information:

• Documentation to be uploaded with the online application
• Calendar and general information about admission 
• Follow the step-by-step instructions in the application for admission

Access requirements

According to the Royal Decree 822/2021 of 28 September 2021, to be admitted in the Masters of Political and Electoral Analysis it is necessary to hold a Spanish University degree or some other awarded by one higher education institution of the European Higher Education Area that allow you to start a postgraduate degree. In case of students whose degree do not belong to the European Higher Education Area, it will not be necessary the homologation of the degree, even though the University will check that the student’s academic formation is equivalent to the one provided by a Spanish official degree and whether this degree allows the student to conduct postgraduate studies in his/her home country. 

We will give priority to the applications from social sciences (i.e., political science, sociology, international studies, economy, and history), law, communication sciences (e.g., journalism), but we will also take into serious consideration applications from students with the appropriate motivation and capacity or professional experience in the field of the political and electoral analysis (e.g., from media or survey companies).

Before starting the Masters, the students will be able to take zero courses on basic foundations of political analysis (where the essential notions of social research are provided) and introductions to the statistical software that will be employed in the subsequent courses of the Masters. The students that are able to show enough competence on the topics covered by these introductory courses, and also depending on their previous degree or the additional formation they can demonstrate.

Admission criteria

The submitted applications will be evaluated and assessed up to a total of 10 points according to the following elements:

Language requirements

Check the general language requirements required to study a Master’s at UC3M, depending on whether it is in Spanish, English or bilingual.

students with foreign university degrees

Once admitted to the Master’s program, students holding a university degree from a higher education institution outside the EHEA must provide the diploma, legalized through diplomatic procedures or by The Hague Apostille, for enrollment. They must also submit their transcript of records, including the grade point average, duly legalized.

More information about Legalization of Foreign Documents.

If needed, documents must be accompanied by an official sworn translation into Spanish.

TUITION FEES*

Reservation fee: €600

• it will be paid once the student receives notification of admission to the master’s, and deducted from the first tuition payment
• the reservation fee will only be refunded if the master program is cancelled

60 ECTS in the first academic year:

• EU students: €5,700 (€95/ECTS credit)
• Non EU students: €9,000 (€150/ECTS credit)

✎│Tuition fees
 

NOTE: the indicated public prices do not include in any case, neither the ECTS corresponding to the Formative Complements that the student must take (only master's degrees with previous Formative Complements), nor the cost of issuing the master’s degree certificate.

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* Current fees for the 24/25 academic year, pending approval by the Community of Madrid for the 25/26 academic year.

Additional information

• You may enrol on the master’s degree after completing the admission process and receiving formal confirmation of your acceptance.
• When performing the enrolment you can choose between Full-time enrolment or Part-time enrolment.
• The email address provided upon enrolment will be used for formal communications; students are therefore kindly requested to check their mail regularly.
• Pursuant to the regulations of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, a student failing to pay any part of the fees will not be admitted and the enrolment process will be terminated. In cases of cancellation of enrolment due to non-payment, the University may demand the payment of the pending amounts for enrolment in previous academic courses as a prior condition of enrolment.
  No diploma or certificate will be issued if a student has any outstanding payments.

✎│Enrolment master’s programmes

✎│ECTS credits recognition

Best Practices and Regulations

• Student cohabitation system
• Ethical code
• Enrollment and permanence rules
• Master's degree access rules
• Master's Thesis rules
• Rules for credits recognition

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Collaborations

The UC3M has agreements of educational cooperation to conduct extracurricular (elective) internships associated to the subjects covered in the Masters of Political and Electoral Analysis. These entities and institutions are:

• Metroscopia
• 40dB
• PorCausa
• Alternativas
• IMOP
• GAD-3

The number of places offered for external internships is LIMITED, depends on the existing agreements, the needs of the entities and institutions mentioned and varies from year to year. Likewise, the selection of students for internships must take into account the specific requirements and criteria stipulated in this regard by the respective agreements and the internal selection processes of each entity and institution.

Once students finish the Masters, they should be able to lead and participate in the analysis and interpretation of public opinión studies and electoral behaviour applying the theoretical framework of the main studies in the field of political science.

Once students finish the Masters, students should be able to actively contribute to the design of survey studies and the analysis of public opinion in organizations linked to electoral processes. They should be able to correctly interpret the information, summarize it, visually show it through graphs and prepare an strategic plan, in case of being needed, derived from the available information.

Once students finish the Masters, they will be able to work in different companies and institutions that deal with political and electoral analysis. Moreover, they will possess the required tools to conduct their projects on their own. Some of the possible professional careers after the Masters include:

• Worker in survey companies
• Worker in consulting companies that deal with statistical data
• Analyst in radio stations and TV channels
• Analyst in data sections of media
• Institutional offices
• Consultancy for political parties and third sector