Rutgers University

OVERVIEW OF NSSE

Overview
The National Survey on Student Engagement (NSSE) collects information at hundreds of four-year colleges and universities about first-year and senior students’ participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning and personal development. The results provide an estimate of how undergraduates spend their time and what they gain from attending college. Click here to learn more about NSSE.

The NSSE survey is administered to first-year students and seniors during the spring semester. Currently, the Camden and Newark campuses participate every 3 years. NSSE allows for institutional/campus-based analysis, with further disaggregation for subgroup analysis; benchmarking with self-selected groupings of schools; performance tracking; public accountability needs; assessment of learning outcomes (as indirect measures of student learning); and institutional planning.

The questionnaire collects information across five categories: (1) participation in dozens of educationally purposeful activities; (2) institutional requirements and the challenging nature of coursework; (3) perceptions of the college environment; (4) estimates of educational and personal growth since starting college; and (5) background and demographic information.

Reports

2021