This paper describes an online computerized Graduate Student Information Management System developed for the College of Graduate Studies at the Medical University of South Carolina. The system enables the staff of the Office of Graduate Studies to monitor the flow of requests for admission and graduate student compliance with degree requirements. The information system utilizes the MUMPS interpretive language and inverted tree data file structure. The system supports on-line key to disk data entry, editing, updating, sorting, and report generation. It is interfaced with statistical packages such as BMDP and SPSS for data analysis.
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