Registration & Pricing
BCSSE 2021 Pricing
The cost of BCSSE participation includes a fixed registration fee and an administration fee determined by number of entering students included in the administration, administration mode (paper, Web, or mixed), and winter administration participation.
Registration fee: $300
Summer/Fall Administration Entering Students
Paper Mode
Surveys Shipped | Cost |
Up to 200 | $500 |
201 or more | $2.50/survey |
Web Mode
New/Entering First-year enrollment | Cost |
up to 500 students | $825 |
501 to 1,000 students | $1,100 |
1,001 to 2,000 students | $1,650 |
2,001 to 3,000 students | $2,750 |
3,001 to 4,000 students | $3,850 |
more than 4,000 students | $4,900 |
Mixed Mode (Paper and Web)
Web mode fee plus discounted paper survey price of $1.00 per shipped survey.
Winter Administration
The cost to survey students who are entering as new students after the holiday break is $750. The survey is available early December to late January only to institutions that participated in the previous Summer/Fall Administration to Entering Students.
Only approved contacts can register their institution for BCSSE. Complete this contact request form to be added as a contact for your institution.
First-Year, Transfer, and Older Students
BCSSE targets three distinct groups of entering students: First-year students who are recent high school graduates, transfer students, and older students who have little or no prior experience in higher education.
- Locally administered to entering students during orientation, welcome week, or early in the fall term.
- Supplemental online winter administration available for January entrants.
- Paper and online survey modes available.
- Web-based monitoring of online survey completions.
- Reports and data files delivered via secure Institution Interface.
- Institutions participating in both BCSSE and NSSE in the same academic year receive a BCSSE–NSSE Combined Report with their NSSE Institutional Report.
You will receive registration instructions by email once your request has been approved.
BCSSE has helped us gain a nuanced understanding of the needs and expectations of our incoming students. We have used the data to enhance our advising, peer mentoring, and persistence efforts for first-years, and to identify the students who might benefit from different kinds of outreach.
— Jay Coleman, Vice President of Data Analytics, University of North Florida