Student satisfaction: UK’s Bath University tops poll
Wednesday, 14 August 2013 00:00
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The latest National Student Survey shows 85% of students at British universities are happy with their courses, with Bath University achieving the highest score.
University of Bath topped the poll, with 94% of its student body reporting they were happy with the quality of their degree.
This compared with a national average of around 85% of final-year students saying they were satisfied with their courses, while 7% were unsatisfied.
The annual poll, which surveyed 304,000 students, also found high satisfaction ratings at other major degree-awarding institutions such as University of East Anglia, University of Essex, Keele University and the private University of Buckingham, which all scored 93% average satisfaction across their student bodies.
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Chief Executive Sir Alan Langlands, which published the results, said: “These strong results continue to demonstrate the high-quality student experience provided by universities and colleges in the UK.”
University of Cambridge ranked slightly below at 92%, equal with Open University and the University of Surrey, and marginally higher than its historic rival the University of Oxford (91%).
Russell Group Director General Wendy Piatt, which represents 24 leading universities including Oxford and Cambridge, said: “Once again these figures show undergraduates at Russell Group universities report higher than average levels of satisfaction with the quality of their course.
Smaller higher education institutions such as the Institute of Education (97%), Medway School of Pharmacy (97%) and Brighton and Sussex Medical School (95%) also performed well.
