The聽Graduate Student Experience in the Research University, or gradSERU, survey is聽the only comprehensive survey of graduate and professional students at the University of Colorado Boulder. This survey provides a powerful way for students to tell us about what鈥檚 working well, and what not so well, in classrooms, labs聽and campus life. In turn, employing data and evidence-based assessment allows the Graduate School to continuously improve the experience for graduate students, as well as the services the university provides to support them.
The survey is administered to all graduate and professional students every other year聽so that CU Boulder, the Graduate School and individual graduate programs can understand more fully who our聽graduate students are鈥攖heir backgrounds, identities, academic interests and career goals and to provide support to them.聽
As a member of the鈥�SERU Consortium, CU Boulder uses聽SERU鈥檚 comprehensive survey instrument to allow the university community to track progress on key indicators of the graduate school experience over time. Nearly all the questions were crafted by the SERU Consortium to provide consistency of findings across institutions.
The next survey will be administered in spring 2025.