GradSERU (Graduate Student Experience in the Research University) is a comprehensive survey administered to all degree-seeking graduate students in Norman-based programs on the OU Norman and Tulsa campuses, and OU Online. The survey data provides administrators, faculty, and staff with critical insights into the graduate student experience. Tell us about your experience. We’re listening. Your feedback helps create a better graduate education experience for all students at OU.
The survey takes about 30 minutes to complete. Your data will be kept completely confidential.
Joseph Harroz Jr.
University President
At the University of Oklahoma, the student experience is essential to our shared commitment to unlocking your greatest potential. In our constant efforts to assess the strengths of our campus and areas in which we can improve, the feedback we receive from our students – you – is essential. Your voice matters.
In 2021, the OU Graduate College administered the gradSERU (Graduate Student Experience in the Research University) survey. Graduate students provided crucial information that resulted in changes to policies and additional resources to improve the student experience by reducing burdens, improving academic unit climate, and increasing opportunities for student engagement.
By completing the gradSERU survey, you can provide vital information about your experiences in and out of the classroom that will ultimately drive change at OU.
All responses to the gradSERU survey will remain confidential. Your input is incredibly valuable as we grow our university and equip students for the future. We want to hear about the evolution of your graduate experience. Thank you for investing in strengthening our future at OU.
Live On, University,
Joseph Harroz, Jr.
President
The results are used by the Graduate College to enhance program offerings, improve student services, and strengthen graduate education at OU, while ensuring we continue to support all students. We want to know what is working well, and not so well, in and outside of the classroom. This is your opportunity to be completely frank about your graduate experience. Your voice matters. We’re listening.
Wondering how we used the results from gradSERU in 2021? See below.
We increased opportunities for graduate students to engage with the Graduate College and with each other. We’ve done this with virtual and in-person Graduate Student Life programming, virtual coffee chats with Graduate College leaders, and an Online & Remote Graduate Student Association, initiated by a graduate student, that is in the process of forming.
We added a communications team in the Graduate College to ensure that information is readily available to students when they need it, and we are working on multiple systems improvements to increase transparency for students about their degree progress.
We worked directly with several academic units to improve their climates, increase their efforts to engage students, and in some cases reshape the leadership of their graduate programs.
The survey will serve students in their Undergraduate years of college.
The first students will enroll in Fall 2023 and a six-year growth plan projects an enrollment of 500 students by Fall 2029.
By its sixth year, the school will graduate 200 bachelor's degree students and 60 advanced degree (master's and doctorate) students.
