The AAU/AGS Project for Research on Doctoral Education is a
cooperative endeavor among the research universities that are members of the Association
of Graduate Schools (AGS) within the Association of American Universities (AAU). The
AAU/AGS Project was designed to build a longitudinal database that tracks the flow of
students into and through doctoral programs in the arts, sciences, and engineering.
Confronting the absence of and a need for comparable multi-institutional data about
graduate education, the AAU institutions specified the design and implementation of this
national research effort. The AAU/AGS Project focuses on understanding the forces that
affect the flow of doctoral student talent from admission to completion or departure from
programs. Its research activities are intended to address the needs of institutional- and
national-level policy makers for enhanced information about graduate education.
The
AAU/AGS Project has now collected student data in five fields (biochemistry, economics,
English, mathematics, and mechanical engineering) from 1989 through 1997, and five
additional fields (chemical engineering, history, physics, political science, and
psychology) since 1992. The Project closed the collection of data on new cohorts with
the fall 1997 data set. In order to make the longitudinal database as useful as possible
to researchers, we will continue to update those continuing cohorts already in the
project's database.
The
Project's Steering Committee encourages the use of these data sets and the longitudinal
database by policy makers and researchers interested in graduate educational issues.
Please contact Project staff to obtain information about the procedures and guidelines
governing access to these data.
Project Manager:
Elisa Costas
AAU/AGS Project for Research on Doctoral
Education
Educational Testing Service
Rosedale Road
Mailstop 07R
Princeton, New Jersey 08541
