Warwick Economics finalists highly satisfied with their student experience according to 2024 National Student Survey

The 2024 National Student Survey (NSS) results published recently show that Warwick Economics students remain highly satisfied with their undergraduate courses, with 90% of the respondents stating that they would recommend Warwick to future students.

The annual national survey took place between February and April 2024, and we recorded a high response rate of 78%, four percentage points higher than last year.

The annual UK-wide survey asks undergraduate finalists about the quality of their courses, with 28 questions grouped into seven areas: Teaching; Academic Support; Learning Opportunities; Learning Resources; Assessment & Feedback; Organisation & Management and Student Voice.

The Department of Economics continues to perform strongly across all areas with highest scores in:

• Teaching on my course: nearly 90% of respondents were happy with the teaching stating that staff were good at explaining things, making the subject engaging and that the course was intellectually stimulating and challenged them to achieve their best work.
• Academic support: 90% of the surveyed students were pleased with the ways teaching staff supported their learning.
• Learning Resources: 92% of respondents were happy with the available learning resources such as the IT and library resources as well as access to subject specific resources.

Compared to 2023 we have made improvements across six of the seven main areas of the survey, with percentage points noted in brackets: Assessment and Feedback (2.8); Student Voice (2.5); Teaching (1.9); Learning Resources (1.7); Academic Support (1.3) and Learning Opportunities (0.9).

The position of the Department in comparison with other Departments within the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, remains strong, with Warwick Economics ranking 2nd for Teaching on My Course; 3rd for Learning Opportunities, Assessment and Feedback, Learning Resources, and Student Voice; and 4th for Academic Support and Organisation & Management.

Head of Department, Professor Ben Lockwood commented:

“I’m very pleased to see that our NSS scores remain high, considering that the class of 2024 cohort of undergraduate students was the largest in the history of the Department, with 522 of finalists (78% response rate) responding to the survey.

“We take the feedback received through the NSS very seriously, as it provides us with invaluable insights into what’s important to our students, what we do well, and which areas of our teaching we should improve further.

“I would like to pass on thanks to all staff for their hard work, particularly during the Covid years which affected this cohort of students.

“I would also like to thank this year’s finalists, now graduates of Class 2024, for rating their student experience at Warwick Economics so highly, despite the difficulties they had to overcome during the Covid pandemic. We’re delighted to see that 90 per cent of our finalists would recommend Warwick to prospective students.”