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State of the Student Experience 2026
The 2025/26 academic year read through more than three million student check-in datapoints: what went well, what got harder, and exactly when in the year it happened.
What's inside
The shape of the academic year
Where the year bends at the exam windows, and the gap between the strongest and weakest institutions on the same scale.
Personal: the load students carry
Stress, money, time and confidence, and the belonging buffer that protects wellbeing.
Social: the fabric that holds
Belonging and classroom climate: the highest-scoring domain, and the single lowest topic of all 38.
Academic: what the institution provides
Teaching and content rate high, and this is where the best institutions pull ahead.
Four moves that follow from the data
What quality, wellbeing and leadership teams can each do with the findings.
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