Certificate Program

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

List of past EITM Certification Recipients

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