Student Satisfaction Score
Average student rating of overall experience, teaching quality, and support services
What is Student Satisfaction Score?
Student satisfaction score is the average rating students give in surveys about their experience. It shows how students feel about teaching, support and facilities.
Satisfaction affects retention, reputation and often funding, so institutions track it closely.
How this KPI is measured
- Function
- Operations & Supply Chain
- Sub-function
- Student Experience
- Industry
- Education
- Type
- Lagging
- Impact
- Quality
- Unit
- score (1–5 or 0–100)
- Measurement frequency
- Annual
- Formula
- Sum of satisfaction scores / Number of survey respondents
How to calculate it
Add up the satisfaction scores and divide by the number of survey respondents.
For example, if 1,200 students gave scores totalling 5,160 out of 5, the average is 4.3.
Use consistent questions, and look at results by course and student group, as well as the response rate.
Where it is used
Improving the student experience
Find weak areas.
Comparing courses
Share good practice.
Reporting
Meet requirements.
How to improve it
Tips and common mistakes
- Response rates matter for reliability.
- Satisfaction is not the same as learning.
- Show students what has changed.
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