Take part in the NSS by Wednesday, 30 April.
The 2025 National Student Survey (NSS) is now open. It went live today (Wednesday, 8 January) and will close on Wednesday, 30 April.
The NSS is an annual survey commissioned by the Office for Students (OfS) to invite feedback on students' experience of higher education in the UK. As a publicly-funded higher education institution, The Open University takes part in this survey each year, and every year thousands of undergraduate students receive an invitation to feed back on their experience of the OU.
This year, 29,400 OU students have been invited to take part in the survey. The NSS is anonymous, so students can be as frank in their feedback as they like. The Open University will use this feedback to make continuous improvements to teaching, assessment and the whole student experience.
Respondents can also choose to enter a prize draw, for the chance to win one of 15 x £60 Love2Shop vouchers.
This year, there will also be an optional sexual misconduct survey for students to complete, once they have taken part in the NSS.
At the OU Students Association, we closely follow NSS feedback on the student union question – 'How well does the Students' Union (Association or Guild) represent students' academic interests?' – which helps our efforts to improve the ways in which we listen to students and communicate with them about how we represent their interests.
The Open University has also used student feedback to enhance module content, refine tutorial offerings, review communications to students, and create more opportunities for student involvement across the OU.
You can find out more information about the National Student Survey via their website.
We require at least 50% of our cohort of 29,400 students to take part in the survey, so that we can publish our NSS results when they become available in the summer. If you have been invited to take part in the survey, please complete it below:
Take part in the National Student Survey
If you've got any questions about the National Student Survey, please email national-student-survey-coordinator@open.ac.uk.