155 Social Science Masters Degree Programs in Spain

Earning a master’s degree in International Relations will give you a practical understanding of the symbiotic relationship between the politics, markets, and people that make up the world we live in.

In this master’s degree, you will understand the fundamentals of human development and how different cooperation and social economy businesses work. You will acquire the necessary management, financial and organisational tools to lead non-profit entities or to develop transformative projects in your current professional field. 

The purpose of this master's degree is to train professionals who can promote the implementation of actions that favor gender equality, the so-called gender perspective, in all social, political, economic and labor spheres, in accordance with the regulations.

This joint master's degree ranks in the top 5 programs in Spain on Cooperation and Sustainability, and its multidisciplinary nature is reflected in the variety of its students, both in terms of fields they come from (Social Work, Economics, Sociology, Architecture, Health Sciences, Law) and their countries of origin, being one of our university´s most international programs.

The Master in Computational Social Science offers specialized training in cutting-edge computational and quantitative analysis techniques oriented to the study of the Social Sciences. This program prepares you to take advantage of complex data and advanced computational tools to understand society and human behavior.

This is an inter-university master’s degree offered jointly by the University of Valladolid and the Basque Country University, which gives access to a Doctorate programme of the same name. Its prior objective is to train students in historical research. To do so, students will be introduced to historiography and the most recent lines of research in the field of Historical Sciences, and in debates of maximum interest in current Europe facilitating their contact with highly consolidated research teams, all under the personalised guidance of a tutor specialised in the field in which each student wishes to work.

The Master´s Degree in Communication for Social Purposes: Strategies and Campaigns aims to respond to current challenges: What communication is necessary in the 21st century? Do the constant social transformations give a new prominence to the citizens in front of the conventional media agendas? How are we going to guide the action of the institutions so that the global processes of communication for social change can be globally evaluated? This is the first Master's Degree course in Spain in which an academic approach is taken that guides research and grants an official degree of the highest level in an emerging field of specialization with clear projection. This master's degree aims to bring together some of the best experts in communication on a national and international level and to promote encounters between administrations, non-governmental organizations and information and communication professionals (with a special presence of those more directly related to the field of marketing). This master's degree has a specialized and multidisciplinary character and is oriented towards quality training, linked to a specific professional field: that of communication with social aims; a discipline very close to "communication for development" and the more recent "communication for social change".

The University Master's Degree in Socio-Community Training and Intervention (MOFIS) arises as an initiative to incorporate these studies at the University of Valladolid, and a substitute for a degree with some similar characteristics that existed in a previous period. This new master comes to cover a series of national and international demands and needs. The master deals with social and community intervention through specific and multidisciplinary training, aims to train professionals and researchers in the field of Social Sciences, in order to investigate and / or intervene on those different social processes and contexts, addressing multiple social needs, especially those where greater attention is required in specific contexts, as well as new emerging realities.

Transform your passion for social change into a professional career with the Master's Degree in Social Project Creation, NGO Management, and Social Entrepreneurship, endorsed by the prestigious University of Barcelona and Aina Institute . With a unique methodology that fosters innovation, this program invites you to design your own social project from day one.

The GBSB Global Online MBA with Sustainability and Governance Track is a fully accredited and internationally recognized master’s degree, highly valued by recruiters worldwide. Our program, ranked 20th globally by QS Top MBA (2023) and listed among the best business schools in Spain by Forbes, offers the flexibility and customization needed for busy professionals. Updated in 2024, it features innovative courses in sustainability and governance, including Circular Economy, SmartCity Management 3.0, and AI for Management and Infrastructure Development, making it one of the most pioneering and accessible MBA programs in Europe.

Social change and innovation are the fundamental emblems of contemporary societies. In the studies of emerging social processes and social transformation, different theoretical and methodical perspectives are incorporated. Sociology as a specialized discipline in these dynamics offers professionals the necessary tools to analyze the process of social change and the social structures in which they are produced.

Become a Master in Social Intervention in Knowledge Societies online in a professional specialized in the analysis and intervention of social scenarios in which cases of inequality, discrimination or social exclusion can be generated.

Focus on Social Business Impact through the exploration of contemporary business cases and challenges organized by our applied research hubs and through specialized courses from the Social Business concentration; add in management theory and practice; improve your business skills throughout the program; and bring it all together in an Impact Project.

The main objective of the master's degree in in Sociology: Social Transformations and Innovation is to train scientists and professionals capable of leading the study of social change and the creation of social technologies, and of proposing new solutions to collective challenges and improving our institutions and societies.

The aim of the master's degree in Social and Educational Action, which is one of the university master's degrees offered by the Faculty of Education, is to learn the methods and develop the knowledge required to: analyse and compare the logic and dynamics of social policies in different contexts; identify the characteristics of social action, and tackle new and emerging problems and situations affecting at-risk populations.

The Official Master's Degree in Social Work in the Health Sector from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas aims to train social workers with specialized training that enhances the biopsychosocial perspective of health. Currently, the profound changes and specialization of social work services in the health sector require specific knowledge to advance in the excellence of professional practice, integrating health and social aspects from a logic of direct intervention with citizens.

Social Health Work evaluates the biopsychosocial factors that affect the health-disease process, as well as the treatment of socio-sanitary problems from an interdisciplinary perspective. This Master responds to the current need to provide specialization to Social Workers in the health field, offering you, for this purpose, training focused on the areas and fields of social intervention and delving into both intervention methods and techniques as well as the skills and competencies of evaluation, diagnosis and socio-sanitary management.

The Master is a unique offer in the Galician university system and unique in Spain. The main cultural manifestations (literary and artistic) are studied, as well as their historical context, with the aim of achieving a transversal and complete training in the European Middle Ages.