National Survey of Student Engagement (2015): Engagement Insights: Survey Findings on the Quality of Undergraduate Education

Abstract

In 2015, NSSE collected responses from more than 315,000 first-year and senior students attending 585 bachelor’s degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The following pages present selected NSSE results from students at 541 U.S. institutions or subsets of that group where supplemental survey items were included. They also report selected results from NSSE’s two companion surveys, the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE) and the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE). In this report, they investigated NSSE results that bear on the importance of challenging students to do their best work, seniors’ preparation in the major, and the relationship of financial stress to engagement and views of the campus environment. The BCSSE analysis examined high school study habits and their relationship with the first year of college. The authors use FSSE results to investigate faculty perceptions safety and crisis preparedness.