{"id":4427,"date":"2025-04-22T21:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/?p=4427"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:14:05","slug":"what-were-learning-from-alumni-student-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/2025\/04\/22\/what-were-learning-from-alumni-student-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Learning from Alumni &amp; Student Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your voices are shaping our vision. Through student and alumni surveys, we\u2019re learning what matters most in a doctoral program\u2014and using those insights to build something exceptional.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd0d <strong>Key Survey Findings:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f What Alumni Told Us<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>84% would have considered a doctoral program at Tarleton if offered at the time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Top motivations: career advancement, personal growth, desire to teach<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strong interest in a hybrid\/residency model<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\ud83c\udf93 What Current Graduate Students Want<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Flexibility without compromising academic rigor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emphasis on applied research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clear pathway from master\u2019s to doctoral study<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udcca <strong>Visualize the Data<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2025\/03\/2025_OnlineU_Best_Colleges_Badge.png\" alt=\"OnlineU's 2025 Best Online Colleges.\" class=\"wp-image-4307\" style=\"width:auto;height:200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2025\/03\/2025_OnlineU_Best_Colleges_Badge.png 360w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2025\/03\/2025_OnlineU_Best_Colleges_Badge-273x300.png 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019d love a program that lets me grow professionally without leaving my job.\u201d \u2013 MBA Alumnus, Class of 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udce5 J<strong>oin the Conversation<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcac <strong>We\u2019re still listening!<\/strong><br>Want to share your perspective? Take our short feedback survey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 Take the Survey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your voices are shaping our vision. Through student and alumni surveys, we\u2019re learning what matters most in a doctoral program\u2014and using those insights to build something exceptional. \ud83d\udd0d Key Survey &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":101,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"mhancock","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/author\/mhancock-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 12 months ago","modified":"Updated 4 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 22, 2025","modified":"Updated on December 19, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 22, 2025 9:09 pm","modified":"Updated on December 19, 2025 4:14 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}