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| Abstract Title: | Exploring how physics and astronomy graduate programs describe their culture using natural language processing |
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| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Abstract: | Graduate school applicants are faced with an overwhelming number of potential programs. Applicants can narrow down the potential schools by imagining what it would be like to be a student there and whether that is the type of environment they want to study in. Yet, departmental climate has been an understudied aspect of the physics and astronomy graduate school application process. As such, this study analyzed statements of departmental culture posted on GradSchoolShopper.com by physics and astronomy graduate programs using Latent Dirichlet Allocation to identify the common topics across the statements. I found that the statements were described by six topics, focused around opportunities at the university, including research opportunities, social and networking opportunities, and recreational and cultural opportunities in the community surrounding the university. The results and future work can be useful for programs to better attract graduate students and to tailor their recruitment materials to applicants' interests. |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 2 |
| Poster Number: | B95 |
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| Primary Contact: |
Nicholas Young University of Georgia, Department of Physics and Astronomy Athens, GA 30602 |
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