EITM Certification
Students attending the ICPSR Summer Program may obtain EITM Certification for coursework successfully completed in several pre-approved classes, listed below. The certification has a minimum grade requirement; students can request certification for each one of the pre-approved courses in which they have obtained A- or higher. The ICPSR’s summer program staff will forward letter grades to the EITM Leadership, and applicants will receive an email notification of their certification status in the fall.
Certification-eligible Courses
This list will be updated in the spring of each year. Please direct all inquiries about EITM Certification to [email protected].
Approved Courses for 2026
First Session
- Causal Inference for the Social Sciences I
- Introduction to Time Series and Panel Data Analysis
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation I: Generalized Linear Models
- Multilevel Models I: Introduction and Application
- Race, Ethnicity, and Quantitative Methodology I
- Rational Choice Theories of Politics and Society
- Bayesian Modeling for the Social Sciences I: Introduction and Application
- Data Visualization
- Evaluating Model Robustness
- Machine Learning: Applications in Social Science Research
- Measurement, Scaling, and Dimensional Analysis
- Network Analysis I: Introduction
Second Session
- Bayesian Modeling for the Social Sciences II: HLMs, GLMs, and LLMs
- Categorical Data Analysis: Models for Categorical, Ordinal, and Count Outcomess
- Causal Inference for the Social Sciences II
- Data Science and Text Analysis
- Empirical Modeling of Social Science Theory
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation II: Modeling Space and Time
- Multilevel Models II: Advanced Topics
- Network Analysis II: Advanced Topics
- Time-Series, Panel, and Longitudinal Data Analysis
- Race, Ethnicity, and Quantitative Methodology II
- Structural Equation Models with Latent Variables
- Theoretical Modeling for the Social and Behavioral Sciences