Magister en Ciencias Sociales

Each institution's own students of this programme, counted exactly as the programme across Chile, which heads the table. First-year dropout is the share of everyone who started there in 2023–2025 who was enrolled at no institution at all the following year: everyone who dropped out over everyone who started, the three cohorts added together, never an average of three percentages. Still in the programme is the share enrolled in it at the same institution the next year; the rest changed programme or institution. Graduation is the 2022 cohort for every row, with a title in this programme from any institution within 3 years. Employment and income are SIES's own figures for each institution, as published. A window with fewer than 30 entrants carries no rate.

Read the size beside the rate: with a hundred entrants, one person moves the figure by a point, so a gap of two or three points from Chile can be chance. First-year dropout counts whoever was enrolled nowhere the following year; some return a year or two later, and the register of one year cannot tell a pause from leaving. Students are followed for the institution as a whole, not by campus. The fee is the list fee of its campuses in 2026, before free tuition, grants or loans. 185 of the 6,091 entrants of 2023–2025 started at institutions where the programme never reached 10 entrants in a year; they are in Chile's row and not listed.

Every campus that took first-year entrants into this programme in 2026, on the map and in the list. Choose a region, a kind of institution or a timetable; click a comuna to see only its campuses. An institution's name opens this programme as its own students tell it: who stays, who graduates and how long it takes there.

RegionAll of ChileArica y Parinacota (1)Antofagasta (1)Atacama (1)Coquimbo (1)Valparaíso (4)Metropolitana (20)O'Higgins (1)Maule (2)Ñuble (1)Biobío (3)Araucanía (4)Los Ríos (1)Los Lagos (4)Magallanes (1)

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Each dot is a comuna with a campus that took first-year entrants; its area is how many. The comuna is the campus's, not the students'. Click a dot to list only that comuna.

45 places to study it · 2194 entrants in 2026

Institution and campus	Entrants 2026	Yearly list fee	Length	Timetable	Dropout, year 1 · 2023–2025	Employed, year 1	Income, year 4	Retention, year 1
Universidad de ChileUniversity · Santiago · Santiagoaccredited 7 yearsMagister en Gobierno y Gerencia Publica · Magister en Psicologia Clinica de Adultos …	442	$5,283,000	4 sem.	Daytime, Evening, Other	19.5%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad Central de ChileUniversity · Santiago · Santiagoaccredited 5 yearsMagister en Direccion y Gestion Publica · Magister en Psicologia Educacional y Gestion de la Convivencia Escolar …	255	$3,481,000	4 sem.	Evening, Distance	1.8%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de ChileUniversity · Campus San Joaquin · Maculaccredited 7 yearsMagister en Politicas Publicas · Magister en Sociologia …	165	$6,294,000	4 sem.	Daytime, Evening	22.4%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad Diego PortalesUniversity · Casa Central (Santiago) · Santiagoaccredited 6 yearsMagister en Psicologia Juridica y Forense · Magister en Politicas Publicas …	138	$3,384,000	4 sem.	Evening, Blended, Distance	3.5%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad Alberto HurtadoUniversity · Casa Central (Santiago) · Santiagoaccredited 5 yearsMagister Gobierno, Politicas Publicas y Territorio · Magister Interdisciplinario en Intervencion Social …	119	$2,915,000	4 sem.	Evening, Blended, Distance	11.2%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad Andres BelloUniversity · Casa Central (Santiago) · Santiagoaccredited 6 yearsMagister en Psicopatologia y Salud Mental · Magister en Historia …	99	$6,436,000	3 sem.	Distance	15.0%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad Adolfo IbañezUniversity · Sede Presidente Errazuriz · Las Condesaccredited 6 yearsMagister en Comunicacion Politica y Asuntos Publicos · Magister en Direccion Estrategica de Comunicaciones …	97	$4,118,000	4 sem.	Blended, Distance	39.9%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad de ValparaisoUniversity · Casa Central (Valparaiso) · Valparaísoaccredited 6 yearsMagister en Psicologia Social Mencion Intervencion Psicosocial Comunitaria y Mencion Intervencion Psicojuridica · Magister en Trabajo Social Clinico …	77	$2,728,000	4 sem.	Daytime, Evening, Blended, Distance	10.8%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad de la FronteraUniversity · Casa Central (Temuco) · Temucoaccredited 5 yearsMagister en Gerencia Social · Magister en Psicologia Juridica y Forense …	75	$2,683,000	4 sem.	Daytime	16.3%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad Autonoma de ChileUniversity · Casa Central (Temuco) · Temucoaccredited 5 yearsMagister en Gobierno y Direccion Publica · Magister en Psicologia Clinica …	71	$5,677,000	4 sem.	Distance	14.2%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad de Santiago de ChileUniversity · Casa Central (Santiago) · Estación Centralaccredited 7 yearsMagister en Ciencia de Datos Aplicado a la Gestion Publica y Privada · Magister en Historia …	64	$3,746,000	4 sem.	Evening, Blended	12.4%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad Austral de ChileUniversity · Casa Central · Valdiviaaccredited 6 yearsMagister en Gobierno, Gestion y Desarrollo Regional · Magister en Comunicacion …	63	$2,715,000	4 sem.	Daytime, Blended	42.5%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad de los AndesUniversity · Casa Central (Santiago) · Las Condesaccredited 6 yearsMagister en Estudios Politicos · Magister en Patrimonio y Gestion Cultural …	45	UF	4 sem.	Daytime, Evening, Blended	9.9%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad del DesarrolloUniversity · Sede Santiago (S.C. Apoquindo) · Las Condesaccredited 6 yearsMagister en Intervencion Psicologica Infantojuvenil: Abordaje Multinivel · Magister en Psicologia Educacional …	45	UF	4 sem.	Blended, Distance	9.9%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad de ConcepcionUniversity · Casa Central · Concepciónaccredited 7 yearsMagister en Psicologia, Menciones Psicologia Educacional, Psicologia de la Salud y Psicologia del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones · Magister en Intervencion Familiar …	43	$3,790,000	4 sem.	Daytime, Evening, Blended	17.7%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad Tecnologica MetropolitanaUniversity · Sede Providencia · Providenciaaccredited 4 yearsMagister en Gerencia Publica	38	$3,250,000	4 sem.	Blended	8.7%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad Bernardo O'HigginsUniversity · Campus Rondizzoni · Santiagoaccredited 5 yearsMagister en Gerencia y Politicas Publicas	33	$3,100,000	4 sem.	Distance	—	n/a	n/a	n/a
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de ValparaisoUniversity · Valparaiso · Valparaísoaccredited 7 yearsMagister en Gestion de Conflictos: Negociacion y Mediacion · Magister en Relaciones Internacionales …	31	$3,261,000	4 sem.	Daytime, Distance	12.8%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad del AlbaUniversity · Casa Central (Santiago - Providencia) · Providenciaaccredited 3 yearsMagister en Gestion de Gobierno y Administracion Publica	29	$3,956,000	4 sem.	Distance	11.2%	n/a	n/a	n/a
Universidad de Viña del MarUniversity · Casa Central (Viña del Mar) · Viña del Maraccredited 4 yearsMagister en Inclusion de Personas Con Discapacidad · Magister en Innovacion Social Para la Inclusion …	22	$5,067,000	4 sem.	Evening, Distance	11.1%	n/a	n/a	n/a

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First-year dropout is the share of the institution's entrants to this programme in 2023–2025 who were enrolled at no institution the following year, counted by PuroChile on Mineduc's register for the institution as a whole — the same on each of its campuses; "—" is fewer than 30 entrants. The first five columns are Mineduc's enrolment register for 2026: the campus, its first-year entrants (1–2 where there were fewer than three), the mean yearly list fee of those entrants (a fee filed in UF reads "UF"), the formal length in semesters, the timetables, and under the name the institution's accreditation as the register files it. The last three are what SIES publishes on mifuturo.cl (release 2025-2026) for the institution and this generic programme — the same figure on every campus of an institution, because SIES does not publish them by campus. "s/d" means SIES did not publish it, usually because fewer than eleven graduates could be matched.

Everyone who started this programme in a year is looked up in the next year's enrolment register by the masked id Mineduc publishes for that purpose. There are four ways to be found: still in this programme at the same institution; at the same institution in another programme; at another institution (in this programme or another); or not enrolled anywhere. That last one is first-year dropout. Changing programme is not dropping out: that person is still studying. And not every dropout is final — some come back a year or two later, which one year's register cannot see. The bar adds up the cohorts of 2023–2025: everyone in each outcome over everyone who started, not an average of the three years. It is set beside every postgraduate programme, counted the same way. A window or a cohort under 30 people carries no rate.

Each point is one cohort, the year it started, found the next year. The last one, 2025, had 2,247 people: 12.6% enrolled nowhere in 2026, 86% still in the programme. A single year moves more than the three-year window above; read the line for its direction.

The same cohorts followed into the register of titles: the share with a title in this generic programme, from any institution, by years since they started. 3 years is the formal length rounded up plus one. A recent cohort has a short line, not a low one: the register goes to 2025. Some programmes award an intermediate title on the way; the register does not tell them apart.

SIES publishes no employment or income for this generic programme on mifuturo.cl (release 2025-2026). It leaves out any combination with fewer than eleven graduates it can match to a tax return, broad catch-all groups, postgraduate programmes, and — this release — Physics and Astronomy, History, Philosophy and Mathematics, whose graduates mostly keep studying. PuroChile does not estimate what SIES did not publish.

From 2017–2019 to 2024–2026, its yearly intake went from 1,874 to 2,147 on average: +15%. Since 2007–2009: +13%. Each figure compares three-year averages, never two single years; the windows leave out 2020–2021, the dip every programme has. More entrants is more places and more demand, not a better programme; fewer is not a worse one.

58% of its 2026 entrants are women; in 2007, 54%.

Magister en Ciencias Sociales is a generic programme: SIES's own grouping of the names each institution registers. If you are searching an admission site, these are the names to look for. They stay in Spanish on both editions of this site.

123 more names, together 1,459 entrants.

• Psicología 10,999
• Periodismo 1,569
• Bachillerato y/o Licenciatura en Ciencias Sociales 616
• Ciencias Políticas 532
• Sociología 517
• Antropología 427
• Geografía 184
• Otros Profesionales de Ciencias Sociales 140

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