In the study programme in Decision, Risk and Policy Analysis, an education in central theories and basic methodology is given for decision making, risk assessment and policy making. The programme is given on distance, in Swedish.
In all sectors of the society, it is necessary to handle complicated decision problems, to discover and assess the size of different kinds of risks and to design adequate policies for different activities. Today, there are scientific results and methods which are useful in these contexts, and there is a rapid development of software with the purpose of facilitating the management of complicated social problems. Examples are programs for knowledge representation in planning, simulation as the basis of prognosis and different forms of decision support and expert systems.
The programme is given on distance, in Swedish.
Prerequisites
Qualified for the master's programme are those who have a first-cycle qualification of at least 180 HE credits or equivalent foreign higher education qualification. General requirements in Swedish and English from upper secondary school
Selection
University credits
*) The online application at antagning.se opens approximately one month before application deadline.
