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NSSE Shorts (New)

NSSE Shorts (New)

NSSE Shorts (New in 2025!)

Unlock Valuable Student Insights With NSSE Shorts!

What Does it Cost?

Pricing Information

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NSSE Shorts registration for Fall 2025 and Winter/Spring 2026 is now open.

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The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) now offers NSSE Shorts, a customizable survey option available during the Fall, Winter, and Spring for your undergraduate students.

This version of NSSE allows institutions to select specific item sets from the Topical Modules and core survey, focusing on essential topics such as academic advising, career preparation, mental health, and perceived learning gains. An optional demographic set is also available.

By tailoring NSSE Shorts to their needs, institutions can gather targeted insights that help enhance student experiences and drive success.

Why choose NSSE Shorts?

Affordable pricing: Based on enrollment size, ranging from $700 to $2,650, with minimal setup requirements
Student-friendly: Short, simple, and easy to complete
Schools can target student groups with unique surveys

Flexible data options: Choose anonymous or student-specific responses
Comparative insights: Compare data within your campus or across multiple campuses.
Real-time actionability: Data and reports are available as soon as they're collected.

Administration

An institution can choose any combination of NSSE Shorts item sets. An institution can also choose more than one survey administration during the Fall and Winter/Spring semesters. For example, a school may want to survey their first-year students in October with the Mental Health & Well-Being, Academic Advising, and demographic item sets, then survey survey all their undergraduate students with Inclusiveness & Engagement with Cultural Diversity item set in November.

The survey is administered to students locally by each campus. NSSE Shorts does not send out any survey invitations. Options for administration include, posting links to LMS, email, encouraging faculty/staff to promote completion, and providing opportunities in class for students to complete.

How it works

Institutions can choose to use either institution-only specific links, student-specific links, or a combination of both.

Institution-only specific survey links do not collect any personally identifiable student information. Responses using these links are anonymous. Student IDs are not collected. This method will provide you with summary results and raw data that are downloadable in real time.
Student-specific survey links offer more detailed data through the NSSE Shorts dashboard, allowing you to track survey completion rates. This feature enables you to send follow-up invitations only to non-respondents. Additionally, this option allows you to identify and reach out to students who may need support, such as those unsure about returning next fall or facing academic challenges. Institutions using student-specific links will receive a complete student-identified survey data file, summary results, and student-level results.

For more information, refer to the NSSE Shorts Administration Instructions.