NSS data archive
National Student Survey 2023 results
This page contains the 2023 National Student Survey (NSS) results data as spreadsheets.
Student characteristics data
Summary 2023 NSS results student characteristics (XLSX, 94.8 MB).
Download the CSV with the full student characteristics results (ZIP, 328 MB).
Provider-level data
Summary results
2023 headline NSS results (XLSX, 32 KB)
2023 NSS results by teaching provider for all providers (XLSX, 101.7 MB)
2023 NSS results by teaching provider (full-time) (XLSX, 97.4 MB)
2023 NSS results by teaching provider (part-time) (XLSX, 6.5 MB)
2023 NSS results by teaching provider (apprenticeship) (XLSX, 7.1 MB)
2023 NSS results by registering provider for all providers (XLSX, 99 MB)
2023 NSS results by registering provider (full-time) (XLSX, 95.4 MB)
2023 NSS results by registering provider (part-time) (XLSX, 6.3 MB)
2023 NSS results by registering provider (apprenticeship) (XLSX, 7.1 MB)
Detailed provider-level data
This zip file has a spreadsheet for every provider in the NSS. Each file contains all the results for that provider.
Download the detailed provider-level data (ZIP, 409.9 MB)
These files use UK Provider Reference Numbers (UKPRN). Look up your UKPRN in the UK Register of Learning Providers.
Full results
These files contain all the published 2023 NSS results.
Download the CSV with the full results (ZIP, 228 MB)
The single csv file will be too large to open in Excel, which is why we have also provided the data in a series of smaller csvs.
Download the CSVs (ZIP, 228.4 MB)
Usage and quality notes
Download the 2023 NSS quality report (PDF 156kb)
Annex A: Supporting information for the quality report (XLSX, 37Kb)
Theme measures are presented as experimental statistics, which make the data more manageable but are subject to further review and could change in future. We recommend that you consider the questions which make up each group of questions instead of relying only on the theme measure. Theme measures should not be used in marketing or presented to onward users without the questions which were used to create that theme.
Due to the changes in the questions and response options, the 2023 NSS results cannot be straightforwardly compared with those from earlier years. In particular, the removal of the 'neutral' response option in 2023 means that we would expect more students to respond positively in 2023, regardless of any change in the student experience.
Due to a survey administration error in NSS 2023, question 28 ('overall satisfaction') was not asked of the majority of survey respondents from Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU). We therefore replaced the GCU results with the Scottish sector average and did not publish results for subject-level GCU populations for this question in NSS 2023. The error was not the fault of the provider and does not reflect on the quality of the provider. No other providers or questions were affected by this error.
These results use the Common Aggregation Hierarchy (CAH) for subject breakdowns.
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