McGill Graduate Students are encouraged to participate in the CGPSS survey from February 10 to April 11. Check your inbox for your personalized invitation!
What is CGPSS?
CGPSS is one of two comprehensive surveys of graduate students at McGill. The survey is administered at the Centre de recherche et d'intervention sur l'éducation et la vie au travail (CRIÉVAT), based at Université Laval, and has been run at McGill and other Canadian higher education institutions every three years since 2007. This year, some 50 Canadian institutions of higher education will participate.
The survey asks for your feedback on important aspects of the graduate student experience, including:
- Satisfaction with your program
- Professional skills development
- Research experience
- Presentations and publications
- Graduate supervision
- Financial support
- University resources and student life
- Social life
This year, the survey also includes ten McGill-specific questions on graduate student funding and cost of living from the Post-Graduate Students' Society (PGSS).
Why is it important?
CGPSS is a key indicator of the quality of the graduate student experience at McGill and across the country. McGill uses CGPSS results to advocate for graduate students, develop new initiatives and programming and evaluate the impact of our efforts to improve the graduate student experience.
What has McGill done with past CGPSS results?
- Advocate for graduate student funding: In 2023, GPS used CGPSS results to advocate for the increases to Tri-Agency fellowships (SSHRC, CIHR, NSERC) for graduate students implemented by the federal government in 2024. The Standing Committee Report to Parliament recommending the increases cited the McGill CGPSS results.
- Initiatives to support graduate student career preparedness:
- Creation of the College of Graduate Mentorship designed to help upper-year doctoral students and postdocs to prepare for the academic job market
- TRaCE Talk career panels open to all graduate students and postdocs
- Funding for free French-language courses for doctoral students
- Increased funding for graduate internships, including the Doctoral Internship Program
All past CGPSS results are available for consultation.
Why should I participate?
CGPSS is a simple and secure way for you to communicate your feedback on your graduate program to GPS and to inspire change in graduate education here at McGill and across the country. The more graduate students participate in the survey, the more effective the results will be for advocating for improvements.
Confidentiality
Participation in CGPSS is voluntary, and responses are completely confidential. No individual will ever be identified.
If at any time, you must exit the survey or experience problems with your internet connection, you may access the survey and resume completion by using your personalized link.
If you would like more information about the survey, please contact surveys.apb [at] mcgill.ca (subject: CGPSS%202022) . For technical support, contact cgpss-ecemd [at] fse.ulaval.ca.
Prizes
After completing the survey, you will automatically be entered into a draw for a chance to win a pair of Apple AirPods or one of ten $100 gift cards to the McGill Campus Store.
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