Each year we ask all our students to complete student surveys to find out about your experience of studying at Bath. This is your opportunity to provide feedback about what you like and what you think we could improve. Your feedback helps us to continually develop and enhance our learning and teaching, our student services, and our campus facilities.

By giving us your opinions, you could win a prize. Prizes vary depending on the survey. Previous prizes have included: £250 cash, luxury afternoon tea at the Pump Rooms and a Thermae Bath Spa package. Find out more about the prizes, terms and conditions.

Institutional student survey open and close dates for the 2025/26 academic year are:

• National Student Survey (NSS) = Start of Semester Two 25/26. Further information will be posted closer to the time.
• Course-level Survey = Spring 2026. Specific dates will be posted closer to the time.
• Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) = Spring 2026. Specific dates will be posted closer to the time.
• Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) = Held every two years; it will return in Spring 2027.

The NSS gives you the opportunity to voice your experience of your entire undergraduate course at Bath - both what you liked and what you think could be improved. Your feedback will be used to help shape the future for your fellow students. It is an influential, widely recognised and authoritative national survey that gives students a powerful collective voice.

NSS 2026 will be open at Bath from the start of Semester Two in the 2025/26 academic year. Specific dates will be confirmed nearer the time.

The Course-level Survey replaces the United Kingdom Engagement Survey (UKES) that was piloted in 2024 in certain departments. The new survey gives you the opportunity to provide feedback about your undergraduate experience so far, including your opinions about interacting with others, critical thinking, reflecting on and connecting content and assessment and feedback.

The Course-level Survey 2026 will be open from Spring 2026. Specific dates will be confirmed nearer the time.

PTES gives you the opportunity to provide feedback about your experience as a taught postgraduate student so far here at Bath, including your opinions about teaching and learning, engagement, skills development and assessment and feedback.

If you are in your taught phase of a professional doctorate programme, you are eligible for PTES. This replaces the Professional Doctorate Experience Survey (PDES).

PTES 2026 will be open from Spring 2026. Specific dates will be confirmed nearer the time.

PRES gives you the opportunity to provide feedback about your experience as a doctoral student here at Bath, including your opinions about supervision, support, skills development and resources.

If you are in your research phase of a professional doctorate programme, you are eligible for PRES. This replaces the PDES.

The Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) is held every other year. It will return in Spring 2027.

This survey gives you the opportunity to provide feedback about your experience as a professional doctoral student here at Bath, including your opinions about supervision, support, skills development and resources.

The implementation of PDES in 2025 is currently under review. If it is not conducted, professional doctoral students in their taught phase will be surveyed in PTES and students in their research phase will be surveyed in PRES.