Student Academic Experience Survey 2024

This year’s HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES), authored by Jonathan Neves, Josh Freeman, Rose Stephenson and Dr Peny Sotiropoulou, is the 18th edition of this longstanding publication. It explores, in depth, the experiences of full-time undergraduate students. The SAES has become a firm feature of the higher education policy landscape, featuring regularly in ministerial speeches because it reaches into places other surveys do not go. 

This year’s report discusses value for money, student expectations, the choice of entering higher education, part-time work, artificial intelligence, student voting, the cost-of-living crisis and a range of other topics. It shows a broadly positive trend in student experiences, but highlights challenges around part-time work and the cost of living.