College Graduate Student survey about stipend and financial support

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Creating effective College Graduate Student surveys about stipends and financial support is often daunting—but now, you can generate one with AI in seconds, right here, with a click. Specific’s survey tools transform this tedious process into a breeze.

Why run a stipend and financial support survey for College Graduate Students?

Fewer things matter more to College Graduate Students than understanding—and improving—stipends, grants, and financial support. If you’re not capturing this feedback, you’re missing essential insights into what shapes their academic choices and daily life.

Consider that in the 2019–20 academic year, about 74% of graduate students received some form of financial aid, and 12% held assistantships—a huge population with relevant perspectives to share. The spectrum is broad: average aids for graduate students reached $25,300, while stipends can be as low as $19,000 (below the living wage in some cities), and some prestigious fellowships pay over $40,000 annually [1][2][3][4].

  • Capturing real experiences about stipends helps administrations, departments, and policymakers design more equitable support.

  • Missing student perspectives drives policies that overlook needs—causing dissatisfaction or even attrition.

  • With tuition, loans, and grant packages always shifting, getting honest, structured feedback helps benchmark satisfaction and pinpoint gaps.

  • Regular surveys build trust with students—they know their feedback shapes important decisions.

If you’re not running these surveys, you’re flying blind to key trends that could impact retention, recruitment, and student wellbeing.

Why use an AI survey generator instead of building manually?

Most traditional survey builders are tedious, full of dropdowns, and prone to confusing setups. With an AI survey generator, you simply describe what you want—the AI turns it into a best-practice survey in seconds. Manual methods often take hours; AI does it in minutes, reducing the mental load entirely.

Here’s what this really means for you:

Manual Surveys

AI-Generated Surveys (Specific)

Time-consuming setup

Survey ready in seconds

Generic, sometimes shallow questions

Expert-crafted, relevant, deep questions

No dynamic follow-ups—static form

Conversational, real-time probing

Manual analysis/export required

Automated AI analysis and summaries

Why use AI for College Graduate Student surveys? You get better data, less guesswork, and a way more engaging process—especially using Specific, where the mobile-first, conversation-style surveys actually connect with the people you want to hear from.

Specific’s conversational interface is purpose-built for modern feedback—making life easy for both survey creators and College Graduate Student respondents.

Designing questions for insight: How Specific’s AI makes it easy

The worst surveys frustrate people and give you useless data. For example:

  • Bad: “Are you happy with your stipend?” (This is vague, yes/no, and contextless.)

  • Good: “How does your current stipend level impact your academic and daily life?” (Open-ended, concrete, and likely to spark useful stories.)

Specific’s AI survey generator uses a vast library of best practices and up-to-date research, so it avoids jargon, ambiguity, or unintentional bias. The goal is always actionable feedback—not empty boxes and “meh” replies.

Actionable tip: When crafting your own survey, always ask, “Would this question tell me what I need to know, or just sound good on paper?” And if you want deeper guidance, check out our step-by-step guide to creating College Graduate Student stipend and financial support surveys.

Automatic follow-up questions based on previous reply

Here’s where Specific gets really powerful—our AI automatically follows up in real time, which means your survey feels like an intelligent conversation, not an interrogation. This conversational magic sparks clarity, avoids misinterpretations, and surfaces the real story behind each answer. Instead of chasing respondents down for clarification (costing you and them hours), the system handles it, keeping everyone engaged.

  • College Graduate Student: “My stipend isn’t enough.”

  • AI follow-up: “Can you share more about where the stipend falls short—rent, living expenses, research costs, or something else?”

  • College Graduate Student: “I applied for an assistantship but didn’t continue.”

  • AI follow-up: “What were the main reasons you decided not to continue with the assistantship?”

Without these follow-ups, you’d end up with unclear feedback and more work afterward trying to piece things together.

Follow-ups make the survey a conversation—in other words, it’s an authentic conversational survey, not just another dry form.

Flexible delivery methods: landing page or in-product conversational survey

It doesn’t matter where your College Graduate Students are—getting surveys in front of them should be effortless. With Specific, you’ve got options:

  • Sharable landing page surveys—Perfect for sending by email, Slack, or student groups. Share a link directly, and anyone can take your stipend and financial support survey—especially handy for large or distributed grad cohorts.

  • In-product surveys—Best for when you want to capture feedback inside a university portal or student app. If stipend policies or forms are handled in a digital system, trigger the survey at the ideal time (like after stipend approval), right in the workflow.

For a stipend and financial support survey, broad landing page links often get the widest reach—while inside-app delivery means you catch students when it’s most relevant.

AI analysis: instantly summarize and understand survey results

No more spreadsheet juggling. With Specific’s AI survey analysis, responses are automatically summarized, major topics highlighted, and top insights distilled. You can even chat directly with AI about the feedback to go deeper, or see clear themes at a glance—making analyzing College Graduate Student stipend and financial support survey responses with AI faster, easier, and more thorough than ever.

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Sources

  1. Higher Ed Dive. Percentage of graduate students receiving financial aid and types (2019-20 academic year).

  2. NerdWallet. Graduate student stipend stats and recent increases by institution.

  3. Wikipedia. Stipend levels and context for living wage considerations at Temple University.

  4. Wikipedia. Details of DoD NDSEG Fellowship stipends and financial support for graduate students.

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Adam Sabla

Adam Sabla is an entrepreneur with experience building startups that serve over 1M customers, including Disney, Netflix, and BBC, with a strong passion for automation.

Adam Sabla

Adam Sabla is an entrepreneur with experience building startups that serve over 1M customers, including Disney, Netflix, and BBC, with a strong passion for automation.