Ranked: The Russell Group unis where students are the least happy with their course

As a student, it’s easy to complain about your uni and your course if you quite often feel like you’re paying nine grand a year for some reused PowerPoint slides from 2016.

But it turns out the majority of Russell Group uni students say they’re mostly happy with their courses and their teaching.

The results of this year’s National Student Survey are out, a survey of 345,981 students across 520 universities and colleges in the UK, and there are four questions students are asked based on their courses and teaching. These are:

• How good are teaching staff at explaining things?
• How often do teaching staff make the subject engaging?
• How often does your course challenge you to achieve your best work?
• How often is the course intellectually stimulating?

Because the survey is a measure of student opinion, it is not necessarily a direct measure of quality and could be influenced by biases. For example, if you go to a very highly-ranked university, you may have higher expectations about the standard of teaching and score your university more harshly.

But the university where students are the most happy with their teaching is the University of Cambridge, where 96.66 per cent of students answered positively to the questions asked. This is closely followed by Imperial College London at 93.4 per cent. At the other end of the scale, though with not a huge difference, is Queen Mary University of London where 84.17 per cent of the 3,464 students who answered the survey answered positively about their course.

So, these are the Russell Group unis ranked by how happy students are with their course and teaching:

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22. Queen Mary University of London – 84.17 per cent

21. University of Leeds – 85.19 per cent

20. Newcastle University – 85.32 per cent

19. University of Manchester – 85.46 per cent

18. Cardiff University – 85.7 per cent

17. University of Liverpool – 86.77 per cent

16. King’s College London – 86.78 per cent

15. University of Birmingham – 86.81 per cent

14. University of Southampton – 87.44 per cent

13. University of Edinburgh – 87.49 per cent

12. University of Glasgow – 87.7 per cent

11. University College London – 87.95 per cent

10. University of Nottingham – 88.06 per cent

9. University of Exeter – 88.7 per cent

8. University of York – 88.81 per cent

7. University of Bristol – 89.6 per cent

6. University of Sheffield – 90.4 per cent

5. London School of Economics – 91.64 per cent

4. Univerisity of Warwick – 91.81 per cent

3. Durham University – 92.3 per cent

2. Imperial College London – 93.04 per cent

1. University of Cambridge – 96.66 per cent

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