NSSENSSENSSE
NSSE is in the field at most of the 390 registered colleges and universities! FSSE will launch soon.
Participating institutions have customized the NSSE survey to their specific needs, added short sets of questions on designated topics such as academic advising, career & workforce preparation, and mental health, created unique promotions, and will have access to raw live data downloads in the spring before receiving their data reports in the summer.
Institutional results for colleges and universities that participated in NSSE 2024, including access to three powerful data tools—Report Builder, Major Field Report and Student Success Framework—are available.
Additionally, NSSE continues to release Annual Results. Engagement Insights is an annual dissemination of research findings and institutional stories, and more focused themed Special Reports will be issued throughout the year.
Search NSSE's Institution Participation History
Mid-February
NSSE 2025 survey administration launches
Early-March
BCSSE 2025 registration opens
March 3
NSSE invoice delivery begins
Each of NSSE's surveys contains its own registration window and price. Discover how and when to register for each survey, as well as the price point for each survey, by visiting the corresponding link below.
NSSE provides a plethora of useful data that must be packaged and interpreted in order to best assist institutions with their campus improvement efforts. Use the links below for aid throughout the process.
Wondering exactly what is featured on each NSSE survey? View the individual items on each of our surveys, as they are presented to students and faculty, by visiting the corresponding link below.
Institutions can customize our surveys to their specific needs, including Topical Modules, Consortia, and Open-Ended Student Comments, as well as administration methods and reporting data.
After customizing NSSE and/or our other surveys to individual needs, institutions must promote the surveys on their campuses to ensure quality response rates and accurate data. NSSE offers helpful tips for these efforts.
NSSE delivers survey results in the form of several reports, including a Snapshot Report, a High-Impact Practices Report, a Multi-Year Report, a Comparison Report, a Major Field Report, and more.
13% of first-year students participated in a learning community
27 NSSE consortia have been created to administer separate, additional question sets
Need a resource to prepare students and parents for what to inquire about on college visits?
Consider this FREE NSSE resource.
About 1,700 four-year colleges and universities have participated in our surveys of students and faculty. Is your institution one of them?
Search institutions who have participated in NSSE, FSSE, and/or BCSSE based on name, survey, participating year, location, Carnegie Type and more.
Find your institution's history with NSSE, or see which other institutions have used or are using NSSE.
Read about how 23 institutions used their NSSE results in Lessons from the Field–Volume 4: Digging Deeper to Focus and Extend Data Use.
Lessons From The Field: Volume 4
NSSE Sightings keeps you up-to-date on our initiatives. Good engagement research should not be hard to find!
At Avila University, academic advisors and first-year seminar instructors use the BCSSE Student Advising Report to gain insight into first-year students' preparations for and expectations of college and to focus conversations in one-on-one meetings with them. Faculty and staff campuswide are presented highlights of compelling, useful information in the BCSSE Institutional Report.
Avila University