Apparently there may be a masters degree in "qualitative research methods", but I can't find a specific university that advertises offering it.

I have found a bunch of graduate courses though, mostly through sociology and business departments. At least one pertaining to geography. Though I didn't notice the links, I'm sure it's out there for psychology and anthropology, too. There's some books about using it in Chemsitry research.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22qualitative+research+methods%22+masters&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

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[TGGP]

Possibly of relevance: I just came across this with Emily Chamlee-Wright on qualitative vs quantitative empirical work.

I guess if you're going to get your masters, you'll probably be learning some quantitative stuff. Qualitative thinking is intuitional.

[Hopefully Anonymous]

Did you see this post? It clarifies where I'm coming from on this topic:

http://hopeanon.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/11/masters-in-qualitative-analysis-gets-zero-google-search-results-masters-in-quantitative-analysis-gets-69000-google-sear.html

[TGGP]

Off-topic:
Thought you'd be interested in the explicit institutional/memetic game logic here: skip gates and the harvard experience

There is a journal of qualitative social science. No textbook or degree that I'm aware of though:
http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/interesting-new-journal/

[Hopefully Anonymous]

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[Hopefully Anonymous]

Some good criticisms of the Obama Administration's ambassador appointments in this article on technocratic grounds.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32268349/ns/politics-white_house/

[Hopefully Anonymous]

What happened to this guy?

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[TGGP]

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There's some books about using it in Chemsitry research.great!

[Curious Ellie]

Good news and bad news, Hopefully Anonymous. Your Google query for "Masters in Qualitative Analysis" (something I would prefer over Quantitative Analysis too), now gets 35 hits. As of October 2011. Unfortunately, most of them are references to your two posts on the subject. There was a job opening for a "Qualitative Analyst" at Citibank, which was probably a typo. Sounded like they wanted an algo trader: http://www.freak-search.com/en/thread/2187141/us-ny_new_york-sr_programmeranalyst

Now the good news: There are two companies specializing in qualitative analysis! One is Reflect Research http colon slashslash www dot reflectresearch dot com slash services dot html (I did that TGGP-style!). The other is researchware dot com. I have no idea if they are reputable or not.

However, the gap is narrowing: "Masters in quantitative analysis" only gets 6,240 hits, far from the 69,000 of a few years ago. We're catching up. Perhaps.

[Hopefully Anonymous]

Ellie,
Wow, a rare non-bot visitor to my comments.
(And someone with rare literacy of me & TGGP outside of TGGP's regular commenters).

I encourage you to check out my active blog: http://hopefullyanonymous.blogspot.com