The results from the 2011 National Student Survey place Newcastle tenth in the UK among its peer group. In total 89% of students said they were satisfied with their time at Newcastle, well above the national average of 83% and a 2% increase on the figure from 2010.
The independent survey, carried out by Ipsos-MORI on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), asks final year undergraduates about their level of satisfaction with their place of study.
At Newcastle over 2,500 students responded to the survey and 89% of those said they were satisfied with the quality of teaching on their courses. In fact, 15 individual subjects taught at Newcastle University came in the top 10 nationally for overall student satisfaction with Chemical and Process Engineering and Speech Sciences both achieving a 100% satisfaction score.
Suzanne Cholerton, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching at Newcastle University, said:
"These results are extremely pleasing and demonstrate Newcastle University's commitment to ensuring a very positive experience for our students. We continue to invest in those areas which we know students value as part of their education and which make them highly employable. In a recent national survey, the employment of our students within six months of graduating was the fifth best among our peer group of comparator universities in the UK. Combined, the results of these two surveys show that Newcastle is an outstanding university at which to study."