NTU maintains high standards in National Student Survey
Nottingham Trent University has again performed strongly in the National Student Survey (NSS), the annual survey of students’ experiences during their time at university.
By Dave Rogers | Published on 15 July 2025
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The NSS invites students to share their views across a range of themes such as academic support, learning opportunities, teaching and assessments and the wider student experience.
Their feedback provides information to help prospective students decide where to study and the results support universities and colleges in improving their students’ experience.
This year, more than 6,100 NTU students took part – a 70% response rate – providing valuable insight into how they perceive their time at the university.
NTU has seen improvements across all areas, with a strong increase for the ‘student voice’ theme, a measure of the extent to which students think their views are heard and acted upon.
In comparison with the average for the sector, NTU performed better in the majority of themes, particularly ‘assessment and feedback’ and ‘organisation and management’.
There were a number of areas where 90% or more students responded positively. These included receiving assessment feedback on time, how good teaching staff were at explaining things, how well students’ learning was supported by teaching staff and by library and subject-specific resources.
An analysis of this year’s NSS data by The Times newspaper placed NTU in the top 20 institutions (16) for student satisfaction.
“This is another good set of results for NTU,” said Jane McNeil, Pro Vice-Chancellor – Education.
She said: “Across the sector, there has been an increase for all themes in 2025. To maintain our lead on the sector average in this context is a great achievement, and a testament to everyone’s hard work.”
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Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has been named UK ‘University of the Year’ five times in six years, (Times Higher Education Awards 2017, The Guardian University Awards 2019, The Times and Sunday Times 2018 and 2023, Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023) and is consistently one of the top performing modern universities in the UK.
It is the 3rd best modern university in the UK (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023). Students have voted NTU 1st in the UK for student employability (Uni Compare 2025)
NTU is the 5th largest UK institution by student numbers, with over 40,000 students and more than 4,400 staff located across six campuses. It has an international student population of almost 7,000 and an NTU community representing over 160 countries.
NTU owns two Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for outstanding achievements in research (2015, 2021). The first recognises NTU’s research on the safety and security of global citizens. The second was awarded for research in science, engineering, arts and humanities to investigate and restore cultural objects, buildings and heritage. The Research Excellence Framework (2021) classed 83% of NTU’s research activity as either world-leading or internationally excellent.
NTU was awarded GOLD in the national 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) assessment, as it was in 2019.
NTU is a top 10 for sport (British Universities and Colleges Sport league table 2023).
NTU is the most environmentally sustainable university in the UK and second in the world (UI Green Metric University World Rankings, 2023).