The authors thank the members of the MUSC CGS Cost to Educate a Graduate Student Committee (Drs. Kelley Argraves, Maurizio DelPoeta, John Hildebrandt, Laura Kasman, Thomas Hulsey, Patrick Mulholland, and Rick Schnellmann) for their contributions and insights in the course of our deliberations. The authors also thank Karla Locklear for providing essential administrative assistance to the committee and Teri Lynn Herbert, MUSC Department of Library Science and Informatics, for online searches of graduate education literature and for manuscript and references review.