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Student Experience Survey

The SES is the only comprehensive survey of current higher education students in Australia. It focuses on aspects of the student experience that are measurable, linked with learning and development outcomes, and potentially able to be influenced by higher education institutions. Information collected in the SES helps higher education institutions and the government improve teaching and learning outcomes for students.

   Target population
Undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students enrolled in Australian higher education institutions
    Sample size
Over 175,000 undergraduate students and 65,000 postgraduate coursework students
   Survey cycle
Conducted annually in August and September

 

2023 results expected to be released in the fourth quarter of the 2024 calendar year
Data for the reports (2022 SES Report Tables) are available to download on the 'Resources' page of the QILT website.
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2022 SES Results Summary

The overall student educational experience continued to improve in 2022 (to 75.9 per cent) but remains below the pre‑pandemic level (78.5 per cent in 2019). This suggests that institutions have now more successfully adapted the current teaching and learning environment for students as the acute phase of the pandemic has passed. The focus areas of Skills Development, Teaching Quality, and Learning Resources have broadly recovered to pre-pandemic levels, but Learner Engagement and Student Support are yet to fully recover. For further details, see the 2022 SES National Report and data visualisation above.

Results for international students, including information about students’ education and living experiences in Australia, are available in the 2022 SES International Report.

 

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About the SES

The SES is the only comprehensive survey of current higher education students in Australia. It focuses on aspects of the student experience that are measurable, linked with learning and development outcomes, and potentially able to be influenced by higher education institutions. The survey collects information that helps both higher education institutions and the government improve teaching and learning outcomes. The SES has been administered annually since 2012.

Commencing and later year undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students enrolled in Australian higher education institutions are in scope for the SES, including both domestic and onshore international students. 

Information on the ComparED website about student learning experiences is sourced from the SES, including responses from both domestic and onshore international students, at undergraduate and postgraduate coursework level. Survey results from the two most recent collection years are pooled to improve the reliability of the information. The six indicators from the SES displayed on the ComparED website each show the percentage of students providing positive feedback on various aspects of their higher education experience, including:

  1. Quality of entire educational experience
  2. Teaching quality
  3. Learner engagement
  4. Learning resources
  5. Student support
  6. Skills development

The questions which comprise each indicator are detailed below. 90 per cent confidence intervals are displayed to provide a measure of accuracy of the estimates. For technical details about the calculations used to score data derived from the SES, please see the document, SES Methodology for ComparED Website.

Overall quality of educational experience

The percentage of students who rated the overall quality of their educational experience positively, based on an individual question in the SES.

Teaching quality

The percentage of students who rated the quality of teaching they have experienced positively.

Learner engagement

The percentage of students who rated learner engagement at their institution positively.

Learning resources

The percentage of students who rated the learning resources provided by their institution positively.

Student support

The percentage of students who rated the support they received at their institution positively.

Skills development

The percentage of students who rated the skills development they experienced through their studies positively.