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University College Dublin MSc Digital Policy

University College Dublin

MSc Digital Policy

1 up to

2 years

English

Full time, Part time

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Sep 2025

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Distance Learning, On-Campus

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    About : The MSc Digital Policy focuses on the intersection of technology and public policy. Students will explore the impact of digital technologies on society, governance, and public services. The program aims to equip students with the analytical skills to navigate complex digital landscapes and make informed policy decisions.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue careers in various sectors, including government agencies, non-profit organizations, consulting firms, and technology companies. Potential roles include policy analyst, digital strategist, and public affairs advisor, where they’ll influence technology policy and digital governance.

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With support from Microsoft Ireland, UCD’s School of Information and Communication Studies has established the Microsoft-UCD Digital Policy Programme with the goal of building digital policy training and capability in Ireland and Europe.

The innovative programme mixes the abstract and the applied with core modules from the School of Information and Communication Studies and optional modules from other Schools in the College of Social Sciences and Law (COSSL) and Computer Science. This programme introduces students to basic concepts and issues in digital policy, giving a historical and critical understanding of how to theorise digital objects and environments by learning to situate them in perspectives such as platform capitalism, governance, data infrastructures, information analytics, interface critique and software studies.

The MSc in Digital Policy is designed to prepare graduates for careers in evaluating, implementing, and studying core topical, theoretical, and methodological issues that arise in digital policy today. The course will take a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the institutional and public policy dimensions of the prevalence of digital technology, as well as the underlying social conditions (economic, political, and cultural) and public/private sector contexts that give rise to such technologies and their governance.

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