A new study of student experience has found that students are delighted to be back on campus post-Pandemic but the thirst for more coworking study space has not yet been sated.
Campus Intuition’s report on student perspectives on their campus experience examined views of 12,725 students, comparing sentiment and perceptions with that of previous years.
“Belonging is rebounding after pandemic lockdowns, illustrating the value of place-based university experiences,” the report states.
Feelings of belonging tend to be higher for smaller campuses, but were typically significantly higher than 2020-21, when institutional affiliation plummeted as students ground their way through online learning. Belonging scores were nonetheless highly variable, ranging from 28% to 80% with an average level of belonging of 51%.
Which means conversely that 49% of students on average don’t feel like they belong. Faculties with large intakes and larger intakes tended to perform more poorly in terms of belonging.
The report also says that virtually every campus will have a few sub-optimal rooms away from the glamourous renovated areas that appear in the brochures, and addressing some of the basic maintenance issues in those spaces could improve QILT scores. “Small changes, like fixing broken charging points or adjusting screen heights can make a difference and will flow through to improvements in course ratings and teaching quality scores,” the report claims.
