National Student Survey 2017: overall satisfaction results

The full results for UK universities ranked by student satisfaction in the 2017 National Student Survey (NSS)

August 9 2017

Which UK universities have the most satisfied students? When it comes to finding out how happy students are with the quality of their course, the results of the National Student Survey (NSS) 2017 are not a bad place to start.

The survey canvassed the opinions of about 300,000 students across the country, so it is a pretty comprehensive exercise. However, you will notice that some institutions do not feature (including Oxford and Cambridge), and that's because in order to be eligible, at least 50 per cent of final-year undergraduates must complete the questionnaire. This year, a number of students boycotted the survey in protest against the teaching excellence framework (you can read a bit more about that here).

Nonetheless, the NSS is still the biggest survey of student opinion in the UK - and one of the most important statements that it asks students to respond to is whether, overall, they are satisfied with the quality of their course.

The St Mary's University College, Belfast in joint fifth (92 per cent).

Below, we publish a table that shows how all the eligible UK higher education institutions performed on this measure (the table does not include further education colleges). It shows the percentage of students who "definitely" or "mostly" agreed that they were satisfied with course quality.

National Student Survey (NSS) 2017: overall student satisfaction results

NSS rank 2017	Institution	Overall course satisfaction (%)
=1	University of Buckingham	94
=1	Royal Veterinary College	94
=1	University of St Andrews	94
4	Harper Adams University	93
=5	London Institute of Banking and Finance	92
=5	Loughborough University	92
=5	St Mary's University College, Belfast	92
=8	Aberystwyth University	91
=8	Lancaster University	91
=8	Leeds College of Art	91
=11	University of East Anglia	90
=11	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	90
=11	Trinity University	90
=11	Liverpool Hope University	90
=11	Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts	90
=11	University of Dundee	90
=11	Bangor University	90
=11	Stranmillis University College	90
=19	University of Birmingham	89
=19	Durham University	89
=19	University of Leeds	89
=19	Trent University	89
=19	Royal Northern College of Music	89
=19	University of Glasgow	89
=25	Aston University	88
=25	University of Bath	88
=25	University of Essex	88
=25	University of Exeter	88
=25	Keele University	88
=25	Newcastle University	88
=25	University of Portsmouth	88
=25	Royal Holloway, University of London	88
=25	University of Sussex	88
=25	University of the West of England	88
=25	University of York	88
=25	Swansea University	88
=37	University of Chichester	87
=37	Conservatoire for Dance and Drama	87
=37	Coventry University	87
=37	University of Huddersfield	87
=37	University of Kent	87
=37	Royal Agricultural University	87
=37	University of Surrey	87
=37	University of Aberdeen	87
=37	University of Strathclyde	87
=37	Queen's University Belfast	87
=47	University of Chester	86
=47	University of Leicester	86
=47	University of Lincoln	86
=47	Liverpool John Moores University	86
=47	University of Nottingham	86
=47	The Open University	86
=47	Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance	86
=47	Royal College of Music	86
=47	University of Warwick	86
=47	Medway School of Pharmacy	86
=47	Robert Gordon University	86
=47	University of Stirling	86
=47	Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama	86
=60	Bishop Grosseteste University	85
=60	University of Bolton	85
=60	De Montfort University	85
=60	University of Derby	85
=60	Heythrop College, University of London	85
=60	University of Law	85
=60	Northumbria University	85
=60	Plymouth University	85
=60	Sheffield Hallam University	85
=60	St Mary's University, Twickenham	85
=60	Staffordshire University	85
=60	The University of West London	85
=60	University of Winchester	85
=60	University of Wales Trinity Saint David	85
=74	Birkbeck, University of London	84
=74	Brunel University London	84
=74	University of East London	84
=74	Edge Hill University	84
=74	University of Gloucestershire	84
=74	The University of Hull	84
=74	Imperial College London	84
=74	The University of Reading	84
=74	The University of Salford	84
=74	University of St Mark and St John	84
=74	University of Sunderland	84
=74	University of Worcester	84
=74	Hull and York Medical School	84
=74	Abertay University	84
=74	Cardiff Metropolitan University	84
=74	Cardiff University	84
=90	Anglia Ruskin University	83
=90	Falmouth University	83
=90	Hertford Regional College	83
=90	University of Hertfordshire	83
=90	Manchester Metropolitan University	83
=90	University of Northampton	83
=90	Oxford Brookes University	83
=90	Plymouth College of Art	83
=90	Queen Mary University of London	83
=90	Regent's University London	83
=90	University of Roehampton	83
=90	University of Southampton	83
=90	Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance	83
=90	University of Edinburgh	83
=90	Heriot-Watt University	83
=90	University of the West of Scotland	83
=90	Ulster University	83
=107	University of Bedfordshire	82
=107	Birmingham City University	82
=107	Canterbury Christ Church University	82
=107	University of Central Lancashire	82
=107	City, University of London	82
=107	Leeds Beckett University	82
=107	Norwich University of the Arts	82
=107	St George's, University of London	82
=107	Teesside University	82
=107	University of Wolverhampton	82
=107	York St John University	82
=107	Wrexham Glyndwr University	82
=119	Arts University Bournemouth	81
=119	University College Birmingham	81
=119	Bournemouth University	81
=119	University of Bradford	81
=119	London South Bank University	81
=119	Newman University	81
=119	Southampton Solent University	81
=119	Glasgow Caledonian University	81
=127	Bath Spa University	80
=127	University of Brighton	80
=127	Goldsmiths, University of London	80
=127	Kingston University	80
=127	Leicester College	80
=127	Middlesex University	80
=127	The University of Westminster	80
=127	Edinburgh Napier University	80
=135	Buckinghamshire New University	79
=135	University for the Creative Arts	79
=135	University of Greenwich	79
=135	University of the Highlands and Islands	79
=139	BPP University Limited	78
=139	London Metropolitan University	78
=139	University of South Wales	78
=142	University of Suffolk	77
=142	Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh	77
144	The University of Cumbria	75
=145	The London School of Economics and Political Science	74
=145	Ravensbourne	74
147	University of the Arts, London	73
=148	Writtle University College	71
=148	Glasgow School of Art	71

National Student Survey 2017: overall satisfaction results

The full results for UK universities ranked by student satisfaction in the 2017 National Student Survey (NSS)

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