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2009 Graduate Student Survey

Planning, Budget, and Analysis (PBA) is administering the 2009 Graduate Student Survey. The Graduate School, which has extensively reviewed the content of this survey, will use the results to assess the quality of educational services and graduate student life here on the Boulder campus. Moreover, graduate student experiences at CU-Boulder will be compared to those of students at other public AAU institutions, via a set of core questions shared among participating AAU publics.

The Graduate Student Survey is administered on this campus every four years, with the next administration scheduled for fall 2013. The survey population consists of all degree-seeking, graduate-level students, except those in Law or MBA programs and those who have requested a privacy flag on their records. PBA will send e-mail invitations to this population, beginning Monday, November 2. Each invitation will contain a link to an online questionnaire. Data collection will continue until approximately the first week of December.

As an incentive to complete this survey, PBA is offering $1,000 in cash awards to respondents. This will be awarded in four $250 amounts to respondents selected in a random drawing. Additional information concerning PBA survey incentives is described in the survey recognition program.

The online questionnaire is quite long, due to the scope of the survey. Because the questionnaire has been designed to ensure that results can be shared with other AAU publics, it contains an additional set of core questions. Nearly all of the questions that were used in the prior (2005) Graduate Student Survey have been retained, in order to allow comparisons of student responses over time. Moreover, new questions pertaining both to research misconduct and the ways in which CU-Boulder communicates with graduate students have been added to this year's survey.

Please note that the PDF of the questionnaire that is accessible from the link above was created directly from PBA's online survey system. This system generates PDFs that can differ somewhat in appearance from the actual online questionnaires. Consequently, this PDF has a few odd-looking font sizes, minor alignment problems with rows of radio buttons, and some other minor formatting issues that won't appear in the real, online version that graduate students will actually see. 

Last revision 10/29/09