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Times Higher Education US Student Survey How is the survey executed? The Times Higher Education Student Survey captures key milestones in the student s educational journey with their institution, covering motivation, engagement with learning, career impact, and satisfaction and value. The learning engagement measures capture core attributes of broad-based learning a critical component of highquality education with a long-term impact on students. The survey is conducted online. Respondents are recruited by research firm Streetbees, using social media, and facilitated, in part, by student representatives at individual schools, and using a database of student email addresses collected by Ipsos MORI. What questions does the survey cover? The survey contributes 17 per cent of the overall ranking, comprising seven questions from the THE US Student Survey. Motivation Engagement with learning Impact on career Satisfaction and value One measure of motivation: why students choose to go into higher education Six measures of engagement with learning: interaction with faculty, collaborative learning, connection and reflection among concepts, application of learning, critical thinking and being challenged One measure of social engagement on campus One measure of career impact and one measure of value for money Two measures of holistic satisfaction and benefit: a willingness to recommend (also formulated as the Net Promoter Score) and choose again Demographic questions and free text for positive and negative feedback provide further nuance and critical context. How do my survey sample responses impact my ranking? For the purposes of the rankings, we have only analysed responses from degree-seeking undergraduate and master s students, excluding specialised programmes of MBA, MD and JD. The average total of valid responses per institution that met these criteria was almost 90 per institution, across 1,111 institutions. Students answer 12 core questions about their experience (either multiple choice or on a scale of zero to 10) and also provide background information about themselves. A total of 1,061 institutions are actually ranked in the 2017 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. The responses from those colleges have been used to compute the overall US results below. How many institutions participate in the survey? In, 2016 THE independently ran the THE Student Survey, involving more than 100,000 students across 1,111 American colleges and universities, and providing a rich insight into student engagement and learning across the country. The data can be used for benchmarking by any institution covered. 2 data@timeshighereducation.com data@timeshighereducation.com 3
Student survey platform Your performance, in detail Easily visualise your performance in the survey in a one-page overview of the results. See how your students responded to questions in the survey against a median of all US institutions A cutting-edge way to manage student experience, delivering revealing insights into engagement with learning today and for the long term. Your data dashboard We ve combined a best-practice survey instrument the THE Student Survey with an institutional data dashboard to create an off-the-peg way to get credible, comparable feedback about the student experience with learning. In THE DataPoints, our flagship performance analysis and benchmarking tool, you get full access to your survey data and that of your peers. Key features Access survey data in your institutional dashboard through a variety of interactive graphics Validate your institution s strengths and discover weaknesses about your mission of education and student learning Compare to peers in the US, your country and, eventually, globally Benchmark yourself in key ranking-related indicators with the best institutions in the US Depth of insights depends on depth of responses at your institution. Most institutions that took part in the 2016 survey have the ability to benchmark at the university level. All universities can roll out the survey to a wider student base to gain the ability to benchmark among student cohorts within the university or between a student segment and a comparable segment at a national level. 4 data@timeshighereducation.com data@timeshighereducation.com 5
Response distribution Visualise the distribution of responses in the survey. Institutional fingerprints Instantly compare your survey results against your peers with our institutional fingerprints. PLUTO URANUS VENUS COLLEGE ROCKET ACADEMY AURORA Toggle between graphical representation and values MERCURY SOLAR UNIVERSE COMET COLLEGE SATELLITE COSMOS COLLEGE SATURN INSTITUTE OF ASTEROID BELTS EARTH COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES MOON COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN INTERPLANETARY ACADEMY NEBULA ACADEMY OF THE ARTS GRAVITY COLLEGE OF NURSING MARS AND TITAN BLACK HOLE SHOOTING STAR INTERSTELLAR GALAXY INSTITUTE ORBIT 6 data@timeshighereducation.com data@timeshighereducation.com 7
Peers and reference groups Compare your relative performance against a variety of reference groups of your choice using our interactive graphic. Performance comparison Easily visualise your relative strengths and opportunities to improve against bespoke groups. Selected peers: Pluto University Mercury University Saturn Institute of Asteroid Belts Mars and Titan University Earth College of Life Sciences Uranus University Solar University Venus College Black Hole University Rocket Academy Moon College of Art & Design Shooting Star University Universe University Interplanetary Academy Aurora University Academy of Astronomy Comet College Satellite University Cosmos College Nebula Academy of the Arts Galaxy Institute Interstellar University Orbit University Gravity College of Nursing Supernova College The chart highlights your underperformance in relation to the group in red, and relative over-performance in green. Compare results of any two questions for deeper insight. For example, does interaction with students mean greater recommendation from students on teaching quality? Pluto University Mercury University Saturn Institute of Asteroid Belts Mars and Titan University Earth College of Life Sciences Uranus University Download results for further analysis Selected peers: Pluto University Mercury University Saturn Institute of Asteroid Belts Mars and Titan University Earth College of Life Sciences Uranus University Solar University Venus College Black Hole University Rocket Academy Moon College of Art & Design Shooting Star University Universe University Interplanetary Academy Aurora University Academy of Astronomy Comet College Satellite University Cosmos College Nebula Academy of the Arts Galaxy Institute Interstellar University Orbit University Gravity College of Nursing Supernova College 8 data@timeshighereducation.com data@timeshighereducation.com 9
Your engagement metrics v peers Explore your scores, and those of your peers, against key metric scores used in our rankings. Details for your respondents See a detailed breakdown of your survey respondents and download this data for further analysis. Select a peer to compare question scores Lamb University 10 data@timeshighereducation.com data@timeshighereducation.com 11
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