National Student Survey (NSS)

The National Student Survey (NSS) launches this year on Monday 4 February. Click the tabs below to find out more about the survey.

The National Student Survey (NSS) is commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and is a national survey, undertaken by Ipsos MORI, which gathers the views of final year undergraduates about what it has been like to study their course at their institution.

The 27 questions in the survey cover teaching, assessment and feedback, learning opportunities, academic support, organisation and management, learning resources, personal development, and the student voice. There are also questions about careers, course delivery, work placements, welfare resources and facilities, social opportunities and overall satisfaction. In addition there is a question about the range of opportunities provided by Brighton Students' Union.

Throughout the survey students are able to provide comments (positive or negative) on any aspect of their course.

The NSS survey is open annually from January to April, although at the University of Brighton we are launching it this year on the 4 February.

Participation in the NSS is voluntary so if for some reason you do not wish to take part, you can opt-out of the survey. However, we strongly encourage you to take part in the NSS because your feedback is so important for our continuing improvement. At any stage that Ipsos MORI contacts you directly you can reply and say you do not wish to take part.

Students’ contact details have been supplied to Ipsos MORI by the University of Brighton under HEFCE’s authority on behalf of other funders. Ipsos MORI have been commissioned to conduct the NSS and will use students’ details for the purpose of the NSS only. All students’ details will be removed from Ipsos MORI’s computer systems when the project has been completed in May.
The survey results are published in August and are included in the Key Information Set which appears on Unistats and the online prospectus for each undergraduate course. We also use your feedback to introduce new initiatives as well as changing and updating our existing practices in order to make the student experience the best it can be for future students. You can see details of some of the things done as a result of previous feedback here.
If you have a question about the National Student Survey please email us at studentsurveys@brighton.ac.uk

You can find out more information about the NSS on the following pages.