Report Builder

NSSE Report Builder

You choose the group. We'll show you the results.

How engaged are your seniors majoring in engineering?
Do international students interact with faculty less than their U.S. peers?
How engaged are your first-generation students compared to those at other colleges and universities?

Assessment professionals, institutional researchers, and campus leaders have specific questions about the normative patterns of engagement. For this reason, we created the NSSE Report Builder – an interactive tool that instantly generates results of your choosing. With secure access to your institution's data as well as de-identified data from other participating schools, the Report Builder can be queried using a combination of student and institution characteristics. Variable options include the Engagement Indicators and individual items. A demo version is available at the link below.

For more detailed information on accessing your institution's NSSE Report Builder, see the resources below and visit our blog post linked here,

Read the Blog

The NSSE Staff briefly introduces the power of the NSSE Report Builder, showing a surface-level demonstration of operating the interface.

Accessing Your NSSE Report Builder

Participating institutions can access their data in the Report Builder by doing the following:

Log in to the Institution Interface.
Go to the Data & Reports table.
Select the “NSSE Report Builder” link under the “NSSE/FSSE Online Reports” column.

Try a Demo Version

The demo version includes most of the functionality of the actual Report Builder using mock data from the fictitious "NSSEville State University."

Try the Demo Version

Brian walks us through the step-by-step process of grouping and filtering NSSE results to show the exact data institutions aim to target.

Add A "Group" Variable

You can add a categorical variable (academic major, honors program, residence hall, etc.) to your institution's Report Builder data by including a “Group” variable in your NSSE population file. Institutions participating in a NSSE administration can populate the Group1 variable in the original population file submission in November, or in a population file update between January and April.

Interested to use the Report Builder to generate aggregate data for all U.S. and Canadian participating institutions?

If you select the option to compare with other institutions, the tool draws upon data from all US and Canadian participants for the administration year you select. If you choose to combine multiple years of data for your institution, the comparison group will be restricted to the most recent year selected. Keep in mind that the comparison group includes all institutions as determined by your query choices MINUS your own institution’s data.