NSS Eligibility Criteria

Final year undergraduate students, i.e. students expected to complete their programme of study between 1 February 2018 and 31 January 2019 inclusive will take part in the 2018/19 NSS.

Of these:

All students who are not on closed courses

Students with the following funding arrangements

• All students studying on directly funded prescribed higher education courses at FECS in England and FEIs in Wales
• Students studying NHS-funded subjects

All full-time undergraduate students registered at participating HEIs, FECs, FEIs and alternative providers (where applicable)

All part-time undergraduate students registered at participating HEIs, FECs, FEIs and alternative providers (where applicable)

Students expected to be in their final year

Students on flexible programmes, where the final year cannot be predicted, after they are expected to have undertaken more than one full-time equivalent and not before their fourth academic year of study

The following are not eligible:

• Students on programmes that do not lead to undergraduate qualifications or credits
• Students on a course lasting one year or one FTE or less
• Any students who were eligible in the NSS 2017 (whether or not they responded) and who remain at the same institution
• Any students expected to have completed one FTE or less since they were last surveyed by the end of academic year 2017-18