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NSSE 2022 Overview

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE, pronounced “nessie”) collects information from first-year and senior students about the characteristics and quality of their undergraduate experience. Since the inception of the survey, nearly 1,700 bachelor’s-granting colleges and universities in the United States and Canada have used it to measure the extent to which students engage in effective educational practices that are empirically linked with learning, personal development, and other desired outcomes such as persistence, satisfaction, and graduation.
NSSE data are used by faculty, administrators, researchers, and others for institutional improvement, public reporting, and related purposes. Launched in 2000 with the support of a generous grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, NSSE has been fully sustained through institutional participation fees since 2002. This document provides an overview of NSSE 2022, including administration details, response rates, participating institutions, and respondent characteristics.
Much has changed across the higher education landscape since the pandemic began over two years ago, most notably a shift from predominately online learning during the 2020-21 academic year to more in-person instruction this past year. Despite fewer NSSE participating schools over the last two years, especially among public institutions, interest in measuring student engagement remained robust with hundreds of colleges and universities using data to understand the student experience during these changed circumstances. To the credit of institutional leaders, faculty, students, and staff, student engagement as measured by NSSE has remained relatively constant, on average, during these turbulent times. However, recent results have also made clear that engagement in several activities typically requiring face-to-face interaction that declined last year have shown signs of rebounding in 2022: collaborative learning, discussions with diverse others, student-faculty interaction, perceptions of campus support, and participation in servicing-learning courses, internships, and study abroad.