North Carolina A&T State University

Department of Psychology

Senior Exit Survey


Please take just few minutes to complete this Senior Exit Survey. Your honest feedback is valuable, and it will enable us to engage in continuous quality control of the Psychology Department. This is an anonymous survey. Do not enter your name or any kind of personal identifying information on this survey.


Gender: Female       Male

Age:

Ethnicity:    Black / African American    White    Hispanic   Asian   Indian    Other


1. What year and semester did you enter the University?    Year:        Semester:    Fall    Spring   Summer

2. What year and semester did or will you complete your degree?    Year:    Semester:    Fall    Spring   Summer

3. Are you a non-traditional (older than the usual college age) student? Yes    No

4. Are you the first in your immediate family to attend college?     Yes    No

5. Did you take a psychology course in high school?    Yes   No

   If no, was a psychology course offered at your high school?    Yes    No

6. Did you enter as a psychology major?    Yes    No

   If no, what was your original major?:

   If no, what was your classification when you changed your major to psychology?: Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior

7. Did you transfer to A&T from another college?    Yes   No

   If yes, what college?:


8. In retrospect, coming out of high school, how prepared were you for college?

Not Well Prepared 1    2   3   4   5   6  7   8   9   10 Very Well Prepared

9. What was your high school GPA (four point scale)?:

10. On average, how many credit hours were you able to complete per semester?:

11. Did you attend summer school?    Yes    No

   If yes, how many sessions did you attend?:

12. On average, how many hours did you work (job) per week?:

13. Did you receive financial aid?    Yes    No

14. How much loan money did you have to borrow?

15. What is your current overall GPA?

16. What is your current psychology GPA?

17. On average, how many hours a week did you study?

18. Overall, how would you rate yourself as a student?:    Outstanding    Very Good   Average    Below Average    Poor


19. What are your immediate plans after you graduate?

   Work Only   Graduate School in Psychology    Law School    Medical School   Other School   Take some time off to work, and then go back to school   I do not know    Other:

20. If you plan to attend graduate school in psychology, what level and specialty area do you plan to pursue?

   Level: (select one):     Ph.D.   Psy.D.   MA/MS

   Specialty: (select ones):    Clinical   Psychological Counseling    School Counseling   Rehabilitation Counseling 

   Industrial / Organizational   Forensic    School Psychology    Developmental   Social   Neuropsychology    

    Biological    Neuroscience   Psychometrics / Statistics    Other

21. If you plan to attend graduate school immediately after graduation, do you plan to attend a graduate program at A&T?    Yes   No

   If yes, what program?

22. Have you already been accepted to a graduate school?    Yes    No

   If yes, what school, level, specialty area?:

23. If you plan to work immediately after you graduate, do you already have a job?    Yes    No

   If yes, what industry and job title?    What will be your yearly gross salary?

24. If you plan to work immediately after you graduate, do you plan to work in the psychology field?     Yes    No

   If yes, what type of job / title?    What will be your gross salary?

25. If you pan to work immediately after you graduate, yet you do not have a job, what do you expect your annual gross salary to be once you find a job?

   Expected Salary?:


26. How would you rate the availability (offerings) of required psychology courses?

   Outstanding    Very Good    Average    Below Average    Poor

27. How would you rate the availability (offerings) of the psychology courses of interest, that served as psychology electives?

   Outstanding    Very Good    Average    Below Average    Poor

28. Which psychology courses do you wish had been offered more often, that were not offered every semester?

29. Overall, the quality of instruction in psychology courses was:

   Outstanding    Very Good    Average    Below Average    Poor

30. Overall, the quality of instruction for non-psychology courses was:

    Outstanding    Very Good    Average    Below Average    Poor

31. Overall, the difficulty (course content) of the psychology courses was:

    Extremely Difficult    Very Difficult    Difficult    Average Difficulty    Below Average Difficulty    Extremely Easy

32. Overall, the professors were:

    Outstanding    Very Good    Average   Below Average    Poor

    What are the characteristics of an outstanding professor, and which teaching techniques, activities, styles, etc., helped you learn the best?

33. To what degree do you wish your psychology courses were challenging?

I wish they had been: Extremely Easy    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10 Very Challenging

34. To what degree do you wish your psychology professors were challenging?

I wish they had been: Extremely Easy    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10 Very Challenging

35. Which courses did you find most difficult and why?

36. What was your ONE absolutely most difficult psychology course:   

37. The likelihood that you had difficulty in that ONE most difficult course listed above, was due to:

   Course Content:    Unlikely    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    Very Likely

   Poor Professor:    Unlikely    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    Very Likely

   Poor Study Habits:    Unlikely    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    Very Likely

38. Overall, faculty provided independent study research opportunities for the students:

   Excellent    Very Good    Good    Fair    Poor    None

39. Overall, the faculty provided internship opportunities for the students:

   Excellent    Very Good    Good    Fair    Poor    None

40. How would you rate the quality of the classrooms and other facilities (e.g. labs) in the psychology department:

   Very Bad    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10 Excellent

41. How would you rate the average psychology class size:

   Too Small    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    Too Big

42. Overall, the faculty advisors were:

   Excellent    Very Good    Good    Fair    Poor

43. How confident are you that your overall education at A&T has prepared you for your future career?

   Extremely Confident    Very Confident    Confident    Fairly Confident    Not Confident

44. If you plan to pursue a career in psychology, how confident are you that the Psychology Department at A&T has prepared you for your future?

   Extremely Confident    Very Confident    Confident    Fairly Confident    Not Confident

45. How satisfied are you with you overall education as a psychology major at A&T?

   Very Unsatisfied    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10 Very Satisfied


46. Please list three positive things about the Psychology Department that you like to see continued.

47. Please list three negative things about the Psychology Department that you like to see changed.

48. If you had to start college all over again, would you select psychology as a major?    Yes    No

   If not psychology, what major and why?:

49. Please provide additional information that will help us continuously improve the Psychology Department.