Ph.D. Completion Project
Program Profiles
The Graduate Program Profiles Project began with the vision of having an online single-page snapshot of summary data for each graduate program at the University of Illinois. This one-page summary would provide an administrative overview of each program and speak to the quality of the program. To be truly effective, the profile would need to be dynamically updated to contain the most recent information and be a conduit to more comprehensive information. To this end, Sally Mikel, the Information System Management Specialist at the Graduate College, began building a specification and preliminary design for the Program Profile database and user interface. We envision that the inclusion of the following types of program information:
- 10+ years of application, admissions, new enrollment, enrollment, and degree counts and trends, with these data items further divided by race/ethnic, gender, citizenship, and residency
- Degree completion
- Time to degree
- Sources and levels of support including assistantships and fellowships
- Contact information
Beneath the Program Profile would lie a comprehensive database of student information spanning both old and new sources of student and faculty data associated with all graduate programs. Student, academic history, applications and admissions data, sources and levels of graduate student funding, degrees conferred, preliminary and final examination data, departmental faculty and staff information, and possibly even program ratings compared to other peer programs would be part ofthe underlying database structure.
