National Survey of Student Engagement

College Search & Selection
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<p>I am pleased to see that US News has included information about the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) in its special annual college rankings report. For those who don't know, the NSSE is a nationwide survey that examines student reported information about how engaged students are with their educations. A number of schools who participate in the NSSE agreed to have the US News & World Report publish their results - good information in there about how often students engage in classroom discussions, have to write papers, discuss material outside of the classroom with their peers and faculty, how satisfied they are with the faculty, whether they feel their peers are friendly or not, etc.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, there are over 700 colleges and universities that participate in the NSSE --- the handful of schools that agreed to have their results published are a small minority. that's a shame because it would be so useful if potential students had access to the results, no matter what they show. There are also many other schools, including most of the Ivy schools, that do not feel it is necessary to even participate to see how students experience their undergraduate years. </p>

<p>Worth reading:
<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/ranknsse.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/ranknsse.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thank you Carolyn! I just looked at the LAC responses - what a shame so few LACs released their results. These are exactly the questions we ask when looking at colleges.</p>

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<p>Yeah, some things rub me the wrong way, like how Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, & Scripps can participate, but Pomona is above it...that being said Pomona would probably rank among the best responses.</p>

<p>From what I see, Colgate is the highest ranked LAC that actually partook in the NSSE, that's sad.</p>

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<p>I felt the same way Cre8tive. Makes you also wonder why some schools participate in the survey but don't want the results made public. It would be great to be able to compare all of the schools.</p>