Monday, October 22, 2001

UR Physics and Astronomy Ranked 2nd Nationwide in Overall Graduate Student Satisfaction.

A nationwide survey of graduate students ranks the Department of Physics and Astronomy 2nd place in overall graduate student satisfaction. A summary of University of Rochester Department of Physics and Astronomy rankings, in all the categories that were studied, is as follows:

Raking Criteria:

Overall Satisfaction 2nd place Information for Prospective Graduate Students 1st place Preparation for a Broad Range of Careers 2nd place Teaching and TA preparation 4th place Professional Development 3rd Place Career Guidance and Placement Services 1st Place Controlling Time to Degree 8th Place Mentoring 3rd place Program Climate 2nd Place

Additional details about the survey are discussed in a message from the survey organizers, attached at the end of this news item.

For the rankings in various categories for US Physics Departments in general, see: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/yigal/DeptNews/Gradranking/gradrank.html

See also the data in the original survey WWW site: http://survey.nagps.org/report1675-145-1.php

Results of the survey for other Rochester departments can be found at: http://survey.nagps.org/digest.php?instID=351

http://survey.nagps.org/deptsByState31.php

Email message about the Survey:

Delivered-To: bodek@pas.rochester.edu
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 17:12:08 GMT
From: survey@nagps.org
To: bodek@pas.rochester.edu
Subject: National Doctoral Survey results

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce that the results of the 2000 National 
Doctoral Program Survey are now available online at 
http://survey.nagps.org/  Thanks to the support of over 200 
graduate institutions, doctoral programs, graduate student 
associations, and professional societies, the survey was a 
tremendous success -- altogether over 32,000 doctoral students 
and recent Ph.D.'s assessed their program's educational practices.

The survey, funded by a grant to NAGPS from the Alfred P. Sloan 
Foundation, was designed to assess student perceptions of the 
educational effectiveness of their doctoral programs based on 
the adoption of widely accepted best practices in doctoral 
education, as recommended by the Association of American 
Universities, National Research Council, and others.  

Results are available at the level of individual doctoral 
programs, allowing program chairs, graduate deans, and student 
leaders to use the responses to inform local discussions of 
graduate education.  Results for U.S. programs from which we
received 10 or more responses are publicly available on the Web.  
Results for programs from which we received between 5 and 9 
responses are available with a password to survey participants
from the program, the program's chair, and administrators within
the institution.You may access your program's internal report by visiting
http://survey.nagps.org/private/.  Use the following email address
and password to log in:

Email address: ******
Password: ******

In addition to the results, there is a discussion forum set up for
each program.  We hope that these forums will help encourage 
further discussion on each program's educational practices.  We 
invite you to review the results for your program and to share your 
thoughts on the discussion boards.  When posting your comments, we 
invite you to share your thoughts on the successful and effective 
practices that your program has implemented.

The survey web site also provides discipline-level results as well 
as the opportunity to rank doctoral programs within a field based 
upon their implementations of recommended educational practices.

On behalf of the National Association of Graduate-Professional 
Students (NAGPS), we would like to thank you for your interest in 
and support of the survey.  We are extremely grateful for your help 
and hope you will find the results a valuable tool in your efforts 
to offer high quality educational experiences for all doctoral 
students.


Sincerely,

The NAGPS Survey Team
National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) 
survey@nagps.org

Article submitted by:
Arie Bodek
10/22/01; 10:51:02 AM

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