The annual National Student Survey (NSS) is a census of all final year undergraduate students in the UK, offering a chance to provide feedback on your student experience at Westminster.
The NSS has helped over five million students make their voices heard about the things that matter to them.
This survey gives you the opportunity to tell us about your course and share your experiences of your time at Westminster – both what you liked and what you think could be improved. This will help shape the University and the student experience, both for students who are already here and those who’ll join us in the future.
The NSS results provide comparable information for universities and prospective students, available on the DiscoverUni website.
Are you eligible to complete the NSS?
All students studying on courses leading to undergraduate credits or qualifications which are longer than one year full-time study or its part-time equivalent will be surveyed in their final year of study.
Further details can be found on the main National Student Survey website.
How and when do you take part?
The 2024 NSS opens nationally on Monday 8 January 2024 and closes on Tuesday 30 April 2024.
University of Westminster’s own internal NSS campaign starts on Monday 29 January 2024.
Eligible students can complete the survey on the National Student Survey website.
How long does it take to complete?
The survey questions will focus on your course experience and will take approximately five minutes to complete online. There are 28 core questions. You can take a look at the NSS questions here and they are outlined below.
It will take longer if you answer some optional additional questions and include comments about your experience, which we would welcome.
What will it cover?
You will be asked to indicate your level of agreement with a series of questions on the following topics:
- Teaching on my course
- Learning opportunities
- Assessment and Feedback
- Academic Support
- Organisation and Management
- Learning Resources
- Student voice
- Mental wellbeing services
- Freedom of expression
You also have the opportunity to provide comments on your learning experience as a whole at your institution.
The University has also opted to ask you one extra closed question and one extra open question. Five optional banks of question are also offered:
- Course Delivery
- Welfare Resources and Facilities
- Employability and skills
- Environmental sustainability
- Student Safety
To preserve your anonymity and that of others, please do not make comments that:
- could enable you to be identified as an individual
- name individuals, or
- make references that could identify another individual eg a course leader or head of school
Is the survey confidential?
Your responses to the survey are strictly confidential, and all responses are anonymised before they are made available to your institution.
Read further details on how the University uses your personal information on the student data privacy statement page.
Read Ipsos MORI’s Privacy Statement for the NSS.
Read the OfS Privacy Statement for NSS.
Where can I find out more?
If you have any questions about NSS please contact the Student Surveys team by email: [email protected].