Graduate Degree Program Summary

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Graduate Degrees Offered

M.S.; Ph.D.




Survey Research and Methodology



Application Checklist and Deadlines

Required by the Office of Graduate Studies


See also: US steps to admission or international steps to admission.

Required by Survey Research and Methodology in GAMES

After you apply, allow one business day for us to establish your access to GAMES, where you'll complete these departmental requirements:

  • Entrance exam(s): GRE or GMAT
  • Minimum TOEFL:  Paper-585  Internet-95
  • Three recommendation letters
  • Statement of purpose

Application Deadline

   Fall: January 15



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Description

The Survey Research and Methodology (SRAM) program offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees and a certificate program. All three are very much cross-disciplinary. Areas of study include: cognitive survey research, intermediate and advanced data analysis, survey sampling, study design and management, data collection methods, instrument design, and testing and assessment, as well as cross-cultural survey research and methods. In addition, master's and doctoral students may choose from a wide range of minor area of emphasis.

The M.S. program is designed to provide students with comprehensive expertise in survey methodology, equipping them to conduct survey research and analysis in a wide range of fields in the public and private sectors, including health, education, media, official statistics, and polling. The M.S. program is a two-year nonthesis program which includes an internship with an external organization, agency, or company. M.S. students also receive grounding in comparative (cross-cultural) research.

The Ph.D. program offers research opportunities in areas such as data analysis, social and cognitive survey research, questionnaire design, survey error and the "total survey error paradigm", nonresponse, data collection challenges, and cross-cultural and cross-national survey research. The program is designed as a four-year program and requires a dissertation of original work that advances knowledge in the field of survey methodology. Ph.D. graduates are likely to have opportunities within academic settings, in government, business, and nonprofit sectors.

The SRAM program offers funding for research assistantships to promising M.S. and Ph.D. applicants and special opportunities exist to receive a scholarship funded by the Gallup Organization in Omaha.

Courses and More

The Graduate Bulletin provides course descriptions, program requirements, and more:


Faculty and Research

Ancillary Faculty

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Database Marketing; Market Research; New Product Development; Customer Relationship Marketing; Human Trafficking
 
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Item Response Theory; Hierarchical Linear Models; Applied and Theoretical Psychometrics; Computer Adaptive Testing
 
John Hibbing vCard icon
Legislative Politics; Public Opinion; Evolutionary Psychology in Politics
 
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Mental Health; Research Methods; Deviance; Family
 
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Political Psychology; Public Opinion; Political Behavior
 

Core Faculty

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Role of Memory in Applied Settings; Survey Response
     Graduate Chair
 
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Categorical Data Analysis; Survey Research Methods and Design; Cross-National and Comparative Survey Research
 
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Survey Methodology, Interviewer Effects, Nonresponse and Measurement Errors
 
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Nonresponse; Questionnaire Design; Gender; Family
 

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