Advisor Student Data

This repository contains the dataset of 13,936 graduate students majoring in computer science at the top 25 North American universities we collected in 2022 and analyzed in this paper:

Title: "Diversity Dilemmas: Uncovering Gender and Nationality Biases in Graduate Admissions Across Top North American Computer Science Programs"

Authors: Ghazal Kalhor, Tanin Zeraati, Behnam Bahrak

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00422-5

If you use this dataset in your work, please cite our paper:

Kalhor, G., Zeraati, T. & Bahrak, B. Diversity dilemmas: uncovering gender and nationality biases in graduate admissions across top North American computer science programs. EPJ Data Sci. 12, 44 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00422-5

Dataset

We collected the following information for each student:

• University
• Advisor ID
• Advisor Academic Rank
• Advisor Gender
• Advisor Home Country
• Advisor Standard Field
• Advisor Previous Universities
• Advisor Citation Count
• Advisor h-index
• Advisor Publication Count
• Advisor First Paper Year
• Student ID
• Student Degree
• Student Start Year
• Student Gender
• Student Home Country
• Student Previous Universities

import pandas as pd

students = pd.read_csv('advisorStudent.csv')
students.head(3)

University	Advisor ID	Advisor Academic Rank	Advisor Gender	Advisor Home Country	Advisor Standard Field	Advisor Previous Universities	Advisor Citation Count	Advisor h-index	Advisor Publication Count	Advisor First Paper Year	Student ID	Student Degree	Student Start Year	Student Gender	Student Home Country	Student Previous Universities
Caltech	advisor0	Professor	Male	United States	Computer systems organization	University of St. Thomas/University of California, Berkeley/University of California, Berkeley	6798	44	307	2002	student0	PhD	2017	Female	United States	Rice University
Caltech	advisor0	Professor	Male	United States	Computer systems organization	University of St. Thomas/University of California, Berkeley/University of California, Berkeley	6798	44	307	2002	student1	PhD	2010	Female	China	University of Science and Technology of China
Caltech	advisor0	Professor	Male	United States	Computer systems organization	University of St. Thomas/University of California, Berkeley/University of California, Berkeley	6798	44	307	2002	student2	PhD	2017	Female	United States	University of Nebraska - Lincoln