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This exploratory study investigated what faculty and current students inInstructional Design and Technology (IDT) programs perceive as indicators of an exem-plary program. We surveyed a sample of the faculty and students and asked them toidentify the most important indicators of an exemplary program and rank their own pro-grams according to those indicators. We contacted programs from 11 different countries,though the majority of contacted programs were from the United States of America. Wecoded and analyzed the respondents’ 941 indicator statements and created 35 thematicindicators. The frequency and percentage of occurrence of these themes across the pro-grams for both faculty and students were analyzed. Their mean rating of their programs foreach theme was also calculated. The paper presents the results of this analysis andexamines the differences across students/faculty and program types. The findings of thissurvey, albeit limited due to the low response rate, could benefit IDT programs in terms ofperformance improvement and assist students by offering criteria by which they can selecta graduate program