The 2025 National Student Survey (NSS) is now open.
The National Student Survey (NSS) is a nationally recognised annual survey of final year undergraduates in the UK.
It’s a great opportunity for you to reflect and share your honest feedback on what it has been like to study on your course as well as your overall experience at Birmingham. You'll be asked to give your opinions anonymously on what’s working well for students, and where we need to make further improvements.
We’ll use the responses to help us improve or keep doing the things that were useful to you - so what you say can make a real difference for your fellow and future students.
From past surveys, we’ve improved and invested in areas such as assessment support and academic feedback, wellbeing services and measures to support the cost of living increase. Learn more about the changes we’ve made.
Changes to the NSS for 2025
This year the Office for Students (OfS) are distributing a Sexual Misconduct Survey (SMS) alongside the NSS. The survey seeks to understand whether university students have experienced either sexual harassment and/or sexual violence since they became a student, either within their university setting, or at other sites or events unconnected to the university.
To make taking part in the Sexual Misconduct Survey simpler, the survey will be offered to you by Ipsos immediately after you have completed the NSS and is completely anonymous like the NSS. This survey is entirely optional and you do not have to take part or answer any questions you don’t want to.
Students cannot complete the sexual misconduct survey if they have not completed the NSS. You will not be contacted about the sexual misconduct survey separately. Both surveys will be live from January (27th January is University of Birmingham's launch date for Have Your Say) until 30th April 2025.
At the University of Birmingham we are working with students, local Police and the Guild of Students to tackle sexual harassment and sexual violence. We provide advice and support to victims and survivors, regardless of when and where any harassment occurred, through our specialist team. Find out about all our support for Your Wellbeing.
How do I complete the NSS?
The 2025 National Student Survey (NSS) is now open. To complete the survey eligible students will recieve a unique link in their emails from Ipsos inviting them to complete the survey directly, or they can head to the NSS site where they will be able to fill in the survey.