The student experience, in data
What student feedback reveals about building a better institution.
Evidence from three million student datapoints, collected continuously since 2020. Short, practical reads for the teams that shape the student experience: quality, wellbeing, and leadership.
Rolling 30-day window, refreshed at each publish. The two "in focus" tiles surface the topics students are finding hardest right now.
Monthly domain averages, 0–10, 2025/26. All three soften toward the December and April exam windows, Personal furthest.
Insights for your team
Quality & Learning
What students reveal about teaching, feedback, curriculum and assessment. The longitudinal evidence quality teams can act on, and defend in review.
View insights → For wellbeing and student-services teamsWellbeing & Support
Early signals of stress, belonging and support needs, so help reaches students before problems escalate.
View insights → For senior leaders and managementLeadership & Strategy
The portfolio view: where to invest, what drives retention and reputation, and how the student experience connects to institutional health.
View insights →Featured insight
Students who feel they belong cope far better with academic pressure
Across thousands of paired student responses, students with a strong sense of belonging score close to two points higher on stress and wellbeing than students who feel they don't belong. Belonging is not a nice-to-have. It is a buffer.
Read the analysis →Latest insights
All insights →Students rate almost everything well. One thing stands out: academic stress
Across millions of student check-ins, scores cluster between 7 and 9 out of 10. One thing students rate sits well below the rest at 6.0: managing the stress of studying.
AllWhere students thrive and where they struggle: the student experience scorecard
Three million datapoints, one map of the student experience. For leaders deciding where to focus, the shape is clear: the strengths are people and relationships, the gaps are pressure, communication and equity.
AllWhat makes students recommend their institution
The students who would recommend their institution aren't the ones with the nicest facilities, or even the lowest stress. They're the ones for whom study feels relevant, who feel they belong, and who stay motivated.
AllWhat students reach for help with, and when
Belonging triggers 22% of all in-the-moment help nudges, and February is the single biggest month for them. The topics that trigger that help, and the months it spikes, are a map of where student pressure actually lands.
AllWhat keeps students engaged through their studies
Students arrive wanting to finish. Whether they stay engaged is shaped by a handful of experience factors we can measure continuously: belonging, relevance, confidence, and the pressures that wear them down. Exam-readiness confidence runs above 8 out of 10 at term start and falls to 5.3 by April.
AcademicThe highest-rated thing in education is the teacher relationship
Of everything students are asked about, the very highest scores go to contact with a teacher: 9.1 for interaction in small classes, 8.3 for teachers who are approachable and supportive.
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Our annual report: what three million student datapoints reveal about wellbeing, teaching and belonging, and what actually moves recommendation and retention. Free, for a work email.