Navigating Your Institutional Report

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Good Places to Start!

Downloadable Reports
(XL & PDF)

Web-only Reports

Tools, Guides, & Resources

Data &
Analysis

Interactive Data Tools

Access Via NSSE Interface

National Survey of Student Engagement

NSSE 2025 Overview

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Profile of participating institutions and respondents from the US and Canada, including response rates and related information.

NSSE Overview

Administration Summary

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Overview of your NSSE administration, including response rates and customizations. (Viewable only as a PDF in your report download.)

Snapshot

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Four-page summary of your key findings.

Respondent Profile

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Frequencies for all demographic questions for your students and three core comparison groups.

Engagement Indicators

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Results on 10 Engagement Indicators (EIs) organized into four broad themes, including statistical comparisons with three comparison groups and item-level results.

Selected Comparison Groups.

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Details the list of institutions in your comparison groups and how they were selected. (Viewable only as a PDF in your report download.)

High-Impact Practices

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Results on student participation in six High-Impact Practices (HIPs), so-called because of their positive associations with student learning and retention.

Pocket Guide Report

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A Pocket Guide to Choosing a College: NSSE 2025 Answers from Students pairs your results with questions from the Pocket Guide.

Multi-Year Report

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For institutions that participated in at least two years of the updated survey—displays your Engagement Indicators, High-Impact Practices, and key individual items across years of participation since 2013.

Major Field Report

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Results by customizable groups of majors displayed in interactive Tableau dashboards. (Viewable via a link in the Data & Reports table.)

Frequencies & Statistical Comparisons

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Results for all survey items except demographics for your students and comparison groups.

Student Comments Report

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Your students’ open-text responses to NSSE's end-of-survey questions and those from Topical Modules.

Additional Questions

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Results for optional Topical Modules and/or consortium questions.

NSSE Data

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Student-identified responses, Engagement Indicators, and more, in SPSS and Excel formats. Student comments data provided separately.

Online Institutional Report

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A user-friendly way to access and view your NSSE reports in a web browser.

NSSE Data and Report Resources

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Access various tools, guides and resources for using your data.

Visit the NSSE Guide

Report Builder

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An interactive web-based tool for creating reports tailored to student and institutional characteristics of your choosing.

PowerPoint Template

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A customizable template to present NSSE, BCSSE, or FSSE results on your campus. Includes facts and figures from the 2024 administration.

Download the template

Faculty Survey of Student Engagement

FSSE 2025 Overview

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Profile of participating institutions and respondents including response rates.

FSSE Overview

FSSE Interactive Dashboard Reports

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Results for all core survey items and Topical Modules with filters for faculty identity demographics, employment characteristics, and selected course characteristics.

FSSE–NSSE Combined Report

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Faculty and student results side by side, allowing faculty responses to help give context to student experiences. Results for core survey items except demographics, broken down by the class level of the students taught by faculty respondents.

Administration Summary

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Find Administration Summary information, downloadable raw FSSE Data, and Interactive Dashboard Reports in the FSSE Qualtrics dashboards.

Visit the FSSE Dashboards

FSSE Data

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Faculty responses in SPSS and Excel formats.

FSSE Data and Report Resources

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Access various tools, guides and resources for using your data.

Visit the FSSE Guide

Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement

BCSSE 2024 Overview

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Profile of participating institutions and students for BCSSE 2024.

BCSSE Overview

BCSSE Interactive Dashboard Reports

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Results for all core survey items with student- and institution-type filters available. All dashboard reports can be downloaded as a PDF from the BCSSE Qualtrics portal. 

Visit the BCSSE Qualtrics Portal

BCSSE-NSSE Combined Report.

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Uses cross-sectional and longitudinal data from BCSSE 2024 and NSSE 2025, providing the opportunity to better understand the first-year experience. These reports are viewable in the BCSSE dashboard, and a PDF copy is in the report download file.

BCSSE Data

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Student responses in SPSS format.

BCSSE Data and Report Resources

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Access various tools, guides, and resources for using your data.

Visit the BCSSE Guide

Additional Tips for Navigating Your Institutional Report

Getting Started

New data and results can be overwhelming just as a semester starts. Asking the right questions can help spark action. Consider the following as a starting point:

  • What was your institution’s motivation for participating in NSSE, and how do these goals connect to your results?
  • What reports do you immediately identify as most relevant to your institution’s assessment and student engagement needs?
  • Who are key stakeholders who should see and be engaged in interpreting and acting on results?

Accessing Your Data & Results

 
Access your NSSE results:

  1. Download zip files with respondent data and institutional reports from the “Data & Reports” table.
  2. View your Administration Summary and Selected Comparison Groups reports via PDF copies in the zip file.
  3. From the same "Data & Reports" table, access your Online Institutional Report, a user-friendly way to access and view your NSSE reports in a web browser.
  4. Interact with the Report Builder, a web-based tool for creating reports tailored to student and institutional characteristics of your choosing.

Resources for Using Your Data & Results

We provide a wide variety of guides, tools, and resources on our website to help you make the most of your data and results. To support you in using your Institutional Report package, we’ve compiled resources for each survey:

And don't forget that NSSE, FSSE, and BCSSE staff are always available to assist you with questions about your administration. Contact us!