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About the NSS
This page provides the latest National Student Survey (NSS) results data as spreadsheets.
Student characteristics data
Summary results
2023 NSS results student characteristics (XLSX, 94.8 MB).
Detailed student characteristic data
Download the CSV with the full student characteristics results (ZIP, 328 MB).
Provider-level data
Summary results
2023 headline NSS results (XLSX, 32 KB)
2023 NSS results by teaching provider for all providers (XLSX, 101.7 MB)
2023 NSS results by teaching provider (full-time) (XLSX, 97.4 MB)
2023 NSS results by teaching provider (part-time) (XLSX, 6.5 MB)
2023 NSS results by teaching provider (apprenticeship) (XLSX, 7.1 MB)
2023 NSS results by registering provider for all providers (XLSX, 99 MB)
2023 NSS results by registering provider (full-time) (XLSX, 95.4 MB)
2023 NSS results by registering provider (part-time) (XLSX, 6.3 MB)
2023 NSS results by registering provider (apprenticeship) (XLSX, 7.1 MB)
Detailed provider-level data
This zip file has a spreadsheet for every provider in the NSS. Each file contains all the results for that provider.
Download the detailed provider-level data (ZIP, 409.9 MB)
These files use UK Provider Reference Numbers (UKPRN). Look up your UKPRN in the UK Register of Learning Providers.
Full results
These files contain all the published 2023 NSS results.
Download the CSV with the full results (ZIP, 228 MB)
The single csv file will be too large to open in Excel, which is why we have also provided the data in a series of smaller csvs.
Usage and quality notes
Theme measures are presented as experimental statistics, which make the data more manageable but are subject to further review and could change in future. We recommend that you consider the questions which make up each group of questions instead of relying only on the theme measure. Theme measures should not be used in marketing or presented to onward users without the questions which were used to create that theme. Find out more about theme measures.
Due to the changes in the questions and response options, the 2023 NSS results cannot be straightforwardly compared with those from earlier years. In particular, the removal of the 'neutral' response option in 2023 means that we would expect more students to respond positively in 2023, regardless of any change in the student experience.
Updates to provider-level data
- These results were updated 23 August 2023 to remove some results which should not have been published. These results related to cases where the teaching provider was in one country and the registering provider in a different country, which meant some students at the teaching provider were asked a different question to the rest of the students at that provider.
We have removed results relating to ‘freedom of expression’ (question 27) for providers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and results for ‘overall satisfaction’ (question 28) for providers in England. We have also removed results for these two questions, for all countries, where more than 10 respondents responded to the survey as a whole but fewer than 10 respondents were asked these specific questions. - Due to a survey administration error in NSS 2023, question 28 ('overall satisfaction') was not asked of the majority of survey respondents from Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU). We have therefore replaced the GCU results with the Scottish sector average and we have not published results for subject-level GCU populations for this question in NSS 2023.
The most recent overall satisfaction data for GCU can be found under question 27 of the NSS 2022 results. The error was not the fault of the provider and does not reflect on the quality of the provider. No other providers or questions were affected by this error. Read the quality report for more details.
These results use the Common Aggregation Hierarchy (CAH) for subject breakdowns.
Providers can access a breakdown of their National Student Survey results through the NSS data dissemination portal, managed by Texuna Technologies.
Contact
If you have any questions or feedback on these pages, please contact [email protected].
22 November 2023 - Student characteristics data updated.
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