TEF data

About the TEF data

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) data contains student experience and outcome measures for individual providers.

The data published in September 2022 informed the assessment of providers in the 2023 TEF.

We update the TEF data annually. The data published in December 2025 is intended to support providers to make improvements to students' experience and outcomes.

We expect to confirm what indicators will be used to inform the 2027 TEF before the start of the 2027 exercise.

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What does the data show?

The data includes the following student outcomes and experience measures:

1. Continuation: The proportion of students who were observed to be continuing in the study of a higher education qualification (or have gained a qualification) one year and 15 days after they started their course (two years and 15 days for part-time students)
2. Completion: The proportion of students who were observed to have gained a higher education qualification (or were continuing in the study of a qualification) four years and 15 days after they started their course (six years and 15 days for part-time students).
3. Progression: The proportion of qualifiers who identify managerial or professional employment, further study or other positive outcomes among the activities that they were undertaking when responding to the Graduate Outcomes survey 15 months after they left higher education.
4. Student experience measures: The level of agreement indicated among final year students to the range of statements that comprise an area, or scale, of the National Student Survey asking about different aspects of their higher education experience.

How is the data constructed?

The TEF data is based on a common set of student outcome and experience data indicators we construct and publish for use in our regulation.

These are produced in the same way for each provider we regulate, using available national datasets and consistent definitions and approaches to data. The data definitions and approaches used follow from our consultation on the construction of student outcome and experience data indicators for use in our regulation.

The data covers all registered providers in England, whether they are required to (or choose to) participate in the TEF or not.

The data includes three years of student experience indicators from the National Student Survey (NSS). The indicators cover the full set of NSS themes, but that does not imply that all these measures will be used in the next TEF exercise.

Common queries about the data can be found in our frequently asked questions.

Details of the data sources, definitions and methods that the OfS uses to construct student outcome and experience indicators can be found in archived documents that were published in September 2022 describing our measures and definitions.