Graduate School Data in the UM Data Warehouse

The University of Minnesota maintains a series of databases from which authorized faculty and staff may generate specialized sets of financial, student, human resource and other data. There is a web-based interface to these databases with a point-and-click query building tool. Data can be downloaded for later use in database programs, spreadsheets and the like.

Access to the Data Warehouse is strictly regulated, and granted separately for the various data areas that exist. You can request access by following the procedure outlined here . Specify the DWGR database for access to Graduate School data. Graduate School students also appear in other systems, so you may also want to specify DWAD if you are interested in Admissions data, and DWSA if you are interested in student enrollment data.

The Graduate School tables (DWGR) contain data that is taken directly from the PeopleSoft student administation system, updated twice weekly. Descriptions of these data tables and how to gain access to them may be found in the INFORMATION section of the DW web site under the topic of Data Dictionaries. (dw.umn.edu )