Social Impact Analytics
Join us to learn how to identify social impact. Help organizations identify what’s working — and what’s not — in their programs, policies, and interventions that support communities in need. Use data to make informed decisions and drive lasting change.
APPLY NOW for Spring 2027
The spring application is open. The priority application deadline is August 31.
The Social Impact Analytics academic certificate offers asynchronous lectures combined with weekly coding exercises and tutorial meetings between an instructor and five to seven students. This fully online 12-unit certificate equips those in the U.S. and abroad who have minimal statistics and programming exposure with leading analytical tools to assess social impact.
This academic certificate offers 12 transferable units to USF's MS in Applied Economics program. International students will be granted transferable units if they can secure the necessary student visa to attend USF for a single academic year.
Who May Benefit From This Program
This certificate is well-suited for people working domestically and overseas with non-profit organizations as well as current undergraduate and graduate students. It offers the opportunity to gain statistical, analytical, and programming skills to measure social impact, complementing work or study in economics, psychology, sociology, political science, business, international studies, kinesiology, public health, and related fields.
The Social Impact Analytics program offered a helpful structure for deepening my skills in data analysis utilizing R, leveraging econometrics principles in evaluation, and measuring causal relationships.”
Rodney Green Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning at Compassion International
We see SIA as pivotal in embedding best-in-class econometric rigor into our continuous impact learning across VisionFund’s global operations.”
Josh Olson Global Director, Impact & Engagement, VisionFund
Designed With Your Interests In Mind
Whether you're a student, looking to level up in your career, or are currently working with non-profit organizations, learn how to harness statistical data and effectively address today's global challenges. Become equipped to make a measurable impact.
NGO Partnerships
Build key skills to measure impact and articulate statistical data necessary for NGOs. Students enrolled in the program through agreements with their NGO employer will be able to build impact reporting into program operations and build key skills for NGO-sector employment.
Expand Your Knowledge
Looking for more training on statistical monitoring and evaluation of programs? Apply the 12 certificate units towards an MS degree in Applied Economics to further develop your skills and preparation for your professional career.
Go Farther, Faster
Dive deeper into understanding and conducting statistical analysis to complement your bachelor's or master's degree — even both. Undergraduates in the 4+1 economics track can earn this certificate plus their bachelor's and master's degrees all in 5 years.
Advance Your Career
Explore opportunities in private and public sectors, as well as faith-based and secular nonprofits focused on social and economic inclusion, health and mental health, education, environmental impact, and microenterprise development.
This course gave me something I didn't have before: the confidence to work with the numbers myself, and the ideas to do more with my team.”
Holta Trandafili Director of Research, Learning, and Analytics at World Vision
Curriculum
The program will consist of six 2-credit courses starting in January (spring semester) that will sequence through the summer and culminate in December at the end of the fall semester. These six courses build upon one another in sequence.
Tuition
- $19,380 base tuition for 12 units graduate credit in the program
- $13,300 for U.S. students and students in other high-income countries enrolling through their non-profit employer
- $8,300 for students from low and middle-income countries enrolling through their non-profit employer.
Limited scholarship funding is available.
This certificate equips NGO leaders to take a complex, nuanced approach to data for a simple, clear purpose: steward your efforts to help people in the best ways possible.”
Kent Annan Director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute, Wheaton College
Meet the Alumni
See where our alumni are making an impact. Visit our USFBlogs site to explore alumni spotlights and learn more about their professional journeys and capstone projects.
The Social Impact Analytics program takes a person from basic statistics to advanced program evaluation methods helping connect your desire to help with a real chance of working.”
Scott Cunningham Baylor University