Discover Uni and Unistats

The data on Discover Uni is called the Discover Uni dataset. We operate the data collection in partnership with the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), which is now part of Jisc.

The Discover Uni dataset is comprised of the information that providers submit to HESA in their Unistats data submission, as well as data from the National Student Survey, Graduate Outcomes Survey and Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO), and information about quality assessment and standards.

Discover Uni currently displays data from the 2023 Discover Uni dataset. This dataset contains information relevant to courses that will run in the 2024-25 academic year.

Full details can be found in our Unistats 2023 publication.

Providers can update their existing information on Discover Uni by resubmitting their Unistats data to HESA. Further details can be found on the 'Information for providers' section of Discover Uni.

Newly registered providers in England are required to submit and sign off a Unistats return within two months of the date of registration.

Detailed guidance on the content of the data collection is available on the HESA website. 

The Discover Uni website is refreshed annually with the newest Discover Uni dataset. Updates to the dataset are made as required, when contributing higher and further education providers wish to update their information in their Unistats submission, or when HESA or the Office for Students make changes to the underlying data. These updates occur weekly.

Discover Uni widget

The Discover Uni widget is embedded on course pages on provider websites, and provides a headline of the Discover Uni data associated with that course, as well as a direct link to the corresponding course page on the Discover Uni website.

The widget has been updated to display data from the C23061 Discover Uni dataset. This includes data from the National Student Survey 2023, which has been revised following its recent consultation and review.

The data displayed on the widget is:

1. % of students in the National Student Survey who were satisfied overall with their course (for providers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales only*)
2. % in work or doing further study 15 months after the course, from the Graduate Outcomes Survey
3. % of students in the National Student Survey who say staff have supported their learning well.

*We aim to include a third datapoint on the widget for courses in England – this may be after the dataset has been published.

The widget will display these datapoints where they are available for a course, or a standard message if data is not available.

For further details and guidance on how to implement the new widget, please see the 'information for providers' page on the Discover Uni website and widget guidance on the HESA website.