Survey Research and Methodology

Application Checklist and Deadlines

Required by the Office of Graduate Studies

• Application for Graduate Admission for a graduate certificate objective
• $50 non-refundable application processing fee
• One set of transcripts, uploaded to MyRED (see upload requirements)
• If your native language is not English: verification of English proficiency
• If you are not a US citizen and you hold an F1 visa: concurrent admission to a degree program, because a certificate alone is not sufficient for F1 status

See also: steps to admission.

Courses

This graduate certificate program consists of 18 semester credit hours: five required courses and one elective. Courses listed below are 3 credit hours each.

Required

The following five courses are required.

SRAM 816 - Principles of Survey Analysis
SRAM 818 - Data Collection Methods
SRAM 819 - Applied Sampling
SRAM 921 - Total Survey Error
SRAM 947 - Questionnaire Design (PSYC 947)

Elective

Additionally, the certificate requires one elective from the SRAM MS core curriculum as listed below.

EDPS 870 - Introcution to Education and Psychological Measurement
PSYC 948 - Latent Trait Measurement Models
SRAM 817 - Cross-cultural and Multi-population Survey Methodology
SRAM 824 - Advanced Quantitative Analysis in Marketing (MRKT 824)
SRAM 863 - Advanced Methods of Social Research II (SOCI 863)
SRAM 898 - Categorical Data Analysis
SRAM 902 - Seminar in Research Methods (SOCI 902)
SRAM 915 - Advanced Sampling
SRAM 922 - Randomized and Nonrandomized Research Design
SRAM 941 - Intermediate Statistics: Experimental Methods (EDPS 941)
SRAM 942 - Intermediate Statistics: Correlational Methods (EDPS 942)
SRAM 946 - Psychology of Survey Response (PSYC 946)
SRAM 971 - Structural Equation Modeling (EDPS 971)
SRAM 972 - Multivariate Analysis (EDPS 972)
STAT 802 - Experimental Design