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Learning Goals & Outcomes
Distribution of responses
How institutions vary
Middle 80% of the 27 institutions with enough responses. Academic domain mean: 7.9.
Institution is a major factor here: weaker and stronger institutions are 2.7 points apart on this topic. Where a student studies shapes their experience more than the topic itself does.
What we ask
“Overall, the learning goals work well for me.”
What students say, and why
Opaque expectations; goals that feel out of reach or irrelevant to the job.
"It’s hard to see the real requirements; more transparency about expectations."
"Too-high expectations, and I’m never sure I can reach them."
Clarity on where to improve and where they want to go.
"What’s difficult and what to work on."
"What we can do better, and where we want to go."
Representative, de-identified comments from the lowest- and highest-scoring responses, translated where needed.
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How we measure it
This is the topic-level average across its subtopics, on a 0-10 scale (higher is better), so an individual subtopic can score higher or lower than the topic shown here. Figures are scored responses from the last 12 months, mapped to the 2026 framework via the canonical question mapping; the cross-2020 figure on the Index uses the full response base. Movement compares the most recent six months with the prior six. Distribution bands: 0-4, >4-<8, 8-10. Cross-institution aggregate; no single institution identified; minimum group size applied.
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