A study conducted at Vanderbilt University confirmed the contention of the Graduate Business Admissions Council (GBAC) that a business major is not necessary for admission to graduate business schools. Evidence also indicated that graduate business schools can and do accommodate wide diversity in their student bodies. (Author)

The graduate admissions process at the University of Oregon is described, and some analyses of data from over 1,000 applicants are presented. (Author)

A study was conducted to determine whether cognitive style and learning style variables are predictive of success in a graduate allied health education program. The results indicated that there was no significant relationship between academic success and the cognitive style variables. (Author/CT)

Based on a sample of 145 graduate students in social work, results indicated that the Graduate Record Examination, as a primary basis for admission, is not a valid predictor of future performance in schools of social work. Moreover, its elimination does not produce a lower quality of student. (Author/BW)

Purported graduate school applicants requested their faculty advisors to complete letter of recommendation forms. The forms had identical questions, but two were marked the same--either "confidential" or "nonconfidential"--and the other was oppositely marked. Significant differences in faculty responses were found, with…

Summarizes a survey of the bulletins about graduate programs in English at 20 universities in the Northeast, the Midwest and the South to determine whether they wanted promising Black students or were opening their doors to a few students of exceptional attainment. (Author/JM)

The author contends that quota systems can be used to increase minority group numbers in graduate schools of social work, thus providing an effective means of breaking down the institutional racism and contributing toward making social work education more relevant. (Author)

The perceptions of a representative sample of GRE test takers who were asked to indicate their views of the importance of eight factors in graduate admissions were examined. Candidates perceived undergraduate grades as the most important factor in graduate admissions, followed by recommendations and test scores. (Author/MLW)

Australia's external degree programs have managed to maintain high standards for graduate degrees through residential and weekend schools, teaming of visiting or part-time faculty with regular full-time faculty members, faculty-wide approval of grades, direct supervision, strict admission standards, and rigorous programs. (Author/WD)

In light of the need for agricultural specialists in Africa the author analyzes various models for graduate agricultural education in relationship to the stages of development of the agricultural industry and discusses several means of insuring standards: entry qualifications, integration of course work into the program, staffing, and laboratory…

Intended to provide current information about graduate programs in speech communication to prospective graduate students, teachers, administrators, and counselors, this directory is also useful to speech departments in evaluating or expanding their programs. Information is provided for 279 departments in the following areas: admission…

The available objective evidence suggests that the accuracy of predicting which students will succeed in a particular graduate school is often no better than modest, especially if such predictions are based only upon a test or a grade record. Taken together these two types of predictors do a reasonably good job, considering the restricted range of…

This project examines the suitability of the General Examinations of the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) as an alternative battery to the Aptitude Test of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) for the admission of vocational education teachers to master's level study of vocational education. The CLEP battery and the College Entrance…

This issue contains a listing of 412 institutions involved in engineering higher education and includes for each: admission requirements, faculty enrollments, degrees, fields of advanced study, and appointments available to graduate students. Also includes a ten-year statistical analysis of significant factors characterizing engineering research…

Explores the success of specially admitted--below traditional standards--graduate students at a major university; using faculty perceptions of student performance and ability as the criteria, the specially admitted students were perceived not to differ from their traditionally admitted cohorts. (Author/JM)