Graduate Student Survey

The set of graphs under Awareness of Graduate School Services - All Students show how aware all continuing students are of The Graduate School's services.  These graphs are grouped by Ph.D. students (49.7% of the sample), Masters students (37.3%), and Graduate Professional Students (13%).  A brief summary of this section follows:

• The Graduate School services that are least used are the Certificate of College Teaching Program, with 8.6% of respondents using the service, and the Conflict Resolution Program, with 8% of respondents using the service.
• The services that are most used are The Graduate School Web Page with 39% using it, and the Graduate Student Resource Guide with 31.6 using it.
• The services that respondents are most likely to be aware of, but still not use are the Dissertation Writing Workshop (48.4%) and the Dissertation Formatting Workshop (50%).  Also of note is that for Ph.D. students, who are most likely to use these workshops, about 80% of the respondents are aware of the services if needed.
• The service that students are least likely to be aware of is the Communication/Presentation Workshops with 51.1% of students not knowing that this service existed.  Next in line are the College Teaching Program (50.1% not aware) and the Career Guide (48% not aware).
• The services that students are most likely to be aware of are the Dissertation Writing Workshop (32.6% of respondents are aware of this service) and The Graduate School Web Page (29.3% aware).
• For all questions a very large proportion of Graduate Professional students are unaware of The Graduate School's services.  However, Graduate Professional students do make active use (27.8% have used the service) of The Graduate School Dean and Associate Deans.

• Ph.D. students who have been here the longest are most likely to have used the Dissertation Writing Workshop.  This fits well with expectations, as students who have only been here a short time are unlikely to be working on their dissertation.  This also helps explain the results in the previous section where so many students were aware of the Dissertation Writing and Formatting Workshops but had not used them.  It appears that when students are ready to utilize these services they are aware of them and are using them.
• First year students are the most likely to have used the Career Guide.
• There is an apparent trend in the green line, representing those who are not aware of that service.  Other than the dissertation related services, first year students seem to be just as likely as sixth year students to be aware of the services that The Graduate School provides.  A possible explanation for this is that The Graduate School's services are being publicized much better today than they were in the past.

• All of the services of The Graduate School received very high satisfaction ratings.  The lowest satisfaction levels were for the Funding Guide (70% satisfied) and the Certificate of College Teaching Program (68%).  The highest satisfaction scores were for The Graduate School Web Page (92.5% satisfied) and the Formatting Guide (also 92.5% satisfied).
• There was very little variation between the satisfaction levels for the different demographic groups represented.  It appears that regardless of one's race/ethnicity, gender, class level, or assistantship status, all graduate students are similarly satisfied with the services provided by The Graduate School.