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Personal Growth & Skill Development

7.8 / 10 ▲ rising

Ranked #4 of 11 in Personal · domain mean 7.6

Distribution of responses

Struggling (0-4) Neutral (>4-<8) Thriving (8-10)

How institutions vary

Measured across 60 institutions with enough responses on this topic.

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How far apart the weakest and strongest institutions sit on Personal Growth & Skill Development, and how much of a student's experience is decided by where they study.

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What we ask

Topic-level question

“My studies help me grow academically and personally.”

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What students say, and why

Where it scores lowest

Self-doubt and fear of failing; for some, lost belief they can finish.

"The school has made me lose faith that I can get through the programme."
Where it scores highest

Knowing the trade, and being okay with not-always-perfect.

"I know my subject and I’m interested in doing well."

One comment from each end. Representative, de-identified, translated where needed.

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The full set of de-identified student comments from the lowest- and highest-scoring responses on this topic.

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Related insights

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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. 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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