Retention, completion time, and the budget tied to them usually reach your desk as last year's numbers. StudentPulse gives you the same numbers while you can still change them.
The retention numbers you answer for, as leading indicators you can act on while the term is still live.
Our guide to steering on leading indicators, not last year's numbers. Free, straight to your inbox.
Three pressures, one conclusion: more students must complete, faster, from cohorts that need more help than ever. And your funding model is watching.
Fewer young people are entering the system. You cannot recruit your way out of attrition; every admitted student has to count.
Wider-participation intakes arrive less prepared. The cost of getting each student to the finish line grows year on year.
Budgets increasingly follow retention, completion time, and graduate outcomes, and your national quality regime expects a documented response.
The annual survey lands too late to change anything: by the time the report is written, the students it describes have already gone. StudentPulse replaces it with short, continuous check-ins that are read the moment they arrive and turned into action while the term is still live. Same students, same year, in time to move the outcome.
A short check-in around three times a semester, roughly a minute on a phone: a few scores and a line in their own words. It feels more like a conversation than a survey, which is why most students answer.
The AI reads each answer the moment it lands and maps it to the shared data model and the four completion factors, by programme, cohort, and campus.
Wellbeing and quality teams act on the signals; leadership sees the same data rolled up to completion and funding. The cockpit below is that leadership view.
Wellbeing, risk, and completion by campus, faculty, and programme, with the open actions next to the numbers they should move. Filter it live.
Every night Observations reads your whole account and brings you the few things that actually need a decision, ranked and written for you. The leadership digest is institution-level risk and where to put resources, framed against your strategy.
StudentPulse · Weekly digest 1 of 6 · Monday, 08:00 Independent Danish research from EVA, the Danish Evaluation Institute, names four factors that move completion, grades, and wellbeing: academic engagement, efficacy, collaboration, and belonging. They are not captured by an annual survey. StudentPulse tracks all four continuously, because each maps directly onto the framework it measures with.
How the four factors map to the data model →Behind every check-in sits one research-based framework: three domains, academic, personal, and social, broken into 38 topics and 155 subtopics. The four completion factors, and every number on the cockpit above, are tagged to the same place, so feedback stays comparable across cohorts, faculties, campuses, and the wider sector, and any single factor can be followed as one line over time.
Explore the open data model →Because every check-in maps to the same framework, each of the four factors reads as one line across the year. You see the dip, the decision you made against it, and whether completion risk actually eased, not a memory of it months later.
Every check-in maps to one shared framework, so your institution benchmarks against comparable ones across the platform, and you see what is already working elsewhere, straight from students. The anonymized dataset makes each institution’s own numbers mean more.
And you are not on your own with it. Your StudentPulse partner helps you read the benchmark, set priorities with your teams, and translate the picture for the board, while the sector view shows which moves actually shifted outcomes elsewhere. Software, plus the people and research behind it.
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"Well-being is no longer a support function. We see it as a strategic driver of quality."
StudentPulse runs one system for quality, wellbeing, and leadership. Here is where the other teams come in.
A completion outlook by programme, faculty, and campus, the topics driving it, and the interventions in flight. It is the same data model your wellbeing and quality teams work from, aggregated to the level you answer for.
A 45 minute demo with your programmes and your funding model on screen.
