Social and Decision Sciences
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Social and Decision Sciences, informally known as SDS, is an academic department in the Carnegie Mellon College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Education
The department runs highly regarded undergraduate programs in political science, decision science, and public policy and management. The graduate program allows doctoral students options in behavioral decision research, organizational theory, political psychology and political economy, technological change and industrial evolution. All students are trained in policy analysis and research methods.
Research
The department's primary strength lies in interdisciplinary research, particularly in the intersection of politics and sociology with economics, psychology and human decision making. Statistics, microeconomics, rational decision theory and game theory are among the many areas of specialization. SDS faculty are very involved in interdisciplinary research throughout the university, and are drawn from fields as diverse as economics, psychology, sociology, history and political science.
Rankings
In 2004, the Decision Analysis Society gave four of five stars to the graduate program in prescriptive decision making and five stars in descriptive decision making. These two ratings tied the department for first place among decision science programs in the United States.
