National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)

The NSSE (pronounced “nessie”) is a comprehensive, longitudinal survey, administered by the National Survey of Student Engagement team at Indiana University. This survey gathers information from first-years and seniors about college experiences, skills acquired during college, and students' academic and non-academic activities. For more information about NSSE at Loyola, please see below or contact survey@loyola.edu. Otherwise, learn more about the related Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE), which is administered to instructional faculty at the same time as when the NSSE is administered to students.

Loyola regularly participates in the NSSE, typically every three years (e.g., 2012, 2015, 2018). NSSE was not administered in 2021, due to COVID. In March 2024, all first-years and seniors at Loyola were invited to participate in the NSSE. Your responses will inform and support evidence-based practice, decision-making, benchmarking, and strategic planning for continuous improvement of the undergraduate educational experience at Loyola - to help us level up!

Find Out More

• Learn more about NSSE.
• See results below from previous NSSE administrations at Loyola.

The NSSE has a main question set. View the current version or the item-by-item history of changes in the main question set and Topical Modules.

In addition to the main NSSE question set, Loyola has generally also requested students to respond to other question sets. See those additional question sets below, by administration year.

• 2015
  • Consortium Question Set: Jesuit Colleges and Universities
• 2018
  • Topical Module Question Set: First-Year Experiences & Senior Transitions
  • Consortium Question Set: Catholic Colleges & Universities
• 2021 - NSSE not administered at Loyola, due to COVID
• 2024
  • Main NSSE Question Set
  • Topical Module Question Set: Inclusiveness & Engagement with Cultural Diversity
  • Consortium Question Set: Catholic Colleges & Universities

Loyola's NSSE Snapshot Reports

• 2012 - snapshot report-type not provided by NSSE
• 2015
• 2018
• 2021 - NSSE not administered at Loyola, due to COVID
• 2024

Loyola's NSSE-FSSE Combined Reports

• 2012
• 2015
• 2021 - NSSE and FSSE not administered at Loyola, due to COVID
• 2018
• 2024

Loyola's peer comparison groups' information

Additional Tableau Dashboard result reporting is UNDER DEVELOPMENT (expected Spring 2025).