OGSPS Web Database

The Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars (OGSPS) Web Database is a web interface to the OGSPS' Oracle database. Any faculty or staff at any Purdue University campus with an academic interest in graduate applications or graduate students.

Information Available in the Database

• Graduate applications and application status information is availabe for all W. L. applicants. For regional campuses, we have all graduate applications for those who applied via the web, and the admitted applications for those who applied via paper.
• Official ETS GRE and Toefl scores for those testers who asked that the scores be sent to Purdue West Lafayette.
• Various reports that may be useful to departmental faculty and staff.
• Registration and funding information for W.L. graduate students.
• Faculty certification information and the electronic Request for Faculty Certification form.
• Convert plan of study to an electronic process that includes the student completing the form via the web, electronic routing and electronic signatures. The electronic plan of study should be availble to all students on the West Lafayette campus by spring 2003.

Accessing the Database

To gain access to the Graduate School Database you must have your Purdue Career Account (CA) alias and password, and be given permission to the database by the OGSPS.

You use your CA alias and password to login to the Graduate School Database. All Purdue employees have a CA, but if you do not know your CA alias or password, or have forgotten it, contact Purdue IT at (765) 494-4000 or itap@purdue.edu.

If you are from a regional campuses and do not have a Purdue Career Account, please contact your local departmental or college Business Office to make that request.

After you have obtained your CA alias and password, then email OGSPS at (gradweb@purdue.edu) with the following information:

1. First Name:
2. Middle Name (or initial):
3. Last Name:
4. Title:
5. Department(s) you are associated with:
6. Campus:
7. Preferred Email Address:
8. Faculty Certification Number if applicable:

You will receive an email when your access has been granted. You may begin accessing the database once you have obtained permission from OGSPS. 

Logging In

The URL for the login page to the database is not published on our home pages for security reasons. The URL is given to individuals once they have obtained access to the database. If you lose your bookmark email gradweb@purdue.edu and the URL will be emailed to you.

Questions/Help

For questions, please email gradweb@purdue.edu.

Suggestions

We are constantly looking at new ways to use the database to increase the productivity of OGSPS staff and the departmental staff at Purdue. We are currently looking at ways to use the database to:

• Decrease the time it takes to get the proper paper work to/from international students
• Allow departments to admit people electronically
• Increase the amount of information an applicant gets from the "Check Status" web page

If you have ideas for the web database, please share them with us. Email your suggestions to gradweb@purdue.edu.