August 9, 2017, by Dr. Meghan Gray
2017 National Student Survey (NSS) results
Guest post by Prof Michael Merrifield, Head of School
The results of the National Student Survey (NSS) were published today. This survey is conducted among all graduating students every year, in which they answer a whole series of questions about their experience at university, ranging from how good the staff were at explaining things to whether the library had the facilities that they needed. We eagerly await these results, partly because we know that prospective students use these data to help assess where they might apply to university (and we’d like the good ones to come here!), but mainly because they give a good indication of how well we have done our jobs.
And we were very pleased to find that we have done extremely well in the eyes of our graduating students. The final summary question that all students answer, which gives a good overall benchmark, is whether or not they agree with the statement “Overall, I am satisfied with the quality of the course.” This year, 96% of the students completing the survey agreed with this statement, building from 92% in 2015 and 94% in 2016, and against a national average in all subjects at all universities of 84%.
It’s a little hard to compare universities this year, as at 12 universities fewer than 50% of students took part in the survey due to an NUS boycott, so were not included in the final results. You also have to be careful when interpreting the results because sometimes the number of students answering a question is quite small, so a single person changing their vote can have a significant effect on the final percentage. However, keeping these caveats in mind, we can look at the responses from individual physics departments who did participate this year to see how they fare:
Percentage of Students Overall Satisfied with their Physics Course in NSS 2017
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Rank |
University |
Percent |
Number of |
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1= |
University of Keele |
100% |
26 |
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1= |
University of the West of Scotland |
100% |
14 |
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3 |
University of Southampton |
99% |
73 |
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4= |
University of Lancaster |
97% |
60 |
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4= |
Nottingham Trent University |
97% |
66 |
|
4= |
Swansea University |
97% |
63 |
|
7= |
University of Nottingham |
96% |
98 |
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7= |
University of Leicester |
96% |
96 |
|
7= |
University of Salford |
96% |
28 |
|
7= |
University of St Andrews |
96% |
55 |
|
11 |
Royal Holloway, University of London |
95% |
40 |
|
12 |
The Open University |
94% |
79 |
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13 |
The University of Birmingham |
93% |
114 |
|
14 |
Queen Mary University of London |
92% |
51 |
|
15= |
University of Aberdeen |
91% |
13 |
|
15= |
Aberystwyth University |
91% |
36 |
|
15= |
University of Exeter |
91% |
106 |
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15= |
University of Hertfordshire |
91% |
33 |
|
15= |
Queen’s University of Belfast |
91% |
52 |
|
15= |
University of Warwick |
91% |
72 |
|
21= |
University of Durham |
90% |
133 |
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21= |
University of Leeds |
90% |
80 |
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23= |
University of Bath |
89% |
70 |
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23= |
University of Strathclyde |
89% |
39 |
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23= |
University of Surrey |
89% |
87 |
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23= |
University of Sussex |
89% |
61 |
|
27= |
Cardiff University |
88% |
58 |
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27= |
University of Dundee |
88% |
10 |
|
27= |
University of Northumbria at Newcastle |
88% |
16 |
|
27= |
University of Portsmouth |
88% |
16 |
|
27= |
University of York |
88% |
96 |
|
32 |
Loughborough University |
87% |
55 |
|
33 |
Heriot-Watt University |
86% |
36 |
|
34 |
University of Hull |
84% |
33 |
|
35 |
University of Glasgow |
83% |
86 |
|
36 |
University of Edinburgh |
78% |
85 |
|
37 |
University of Kent |
71% |
80 |
|
38= |
University of Central Lancashire |
70% |
10 |
|
38= |
University College London |
70% |
98 |
|
40 |
Imperial College London |
67% |
130 |
|
41 |
Kingston University |
50% |
10 |
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