Abstract
This article isolates correlates of departmental quality at the masters and doctoral level in regional colleges and universities. The 45 departments in the sample represent 14 public institutions in two states and include departments in biology, chemistry, education, history, and mathematics. In addition to simple correlation, the analysis is based on multivariate linear regression. Departmental quality is found to be correlated with individual and combined measures of faculty (scholarly productivity, grantsmanship, age and tenure status, geographical origin of highest degree, and teaching workload), students (number and ability), program (proportion of institutional degree programs at the advanced graduate level and curricular concentration), and facilities (library size). The findings suggest that the factors associated with graduate departmental quality are more multidimensional in regional colleges and universities than in highly ranked research universities.
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