Scores from LSE’s key School-wide student surveys in 2025/26 have shown strong results in most areas.
This summary pulls together some of the notable results from each survey:
Notable results in the UG Survey 2026 include:
- Overall Satisfaction: School-wide score continues to be strong at 93%, with 9 out of 18 departments achieving 95% or above, and 3 departments seeing 100% positivity.
- Overall category scores: Improvement across all categories, except for Overall Satisfaction and Organisation and Management.
- School-wide average scores of 90%+ for: ‘Teaching on my programme’, ‘Academic Support’, ‘Learning Resources’, ‘Freedom of Expression’, ‘Programme Delivery’, ‘Academic Growth’, and ‘Overall Satisfaction’.
- Assessment and Feedback: The category is up 2ppt on last year, with improvements in all five questions. This remains one of LSE’s weakest categories (and the most challenging category if considered against Office for Students’ NSS-level benchmarks, which we fall below).
- Student Voice: the category score has improved 1ppt on last year to 82%, with mixed results at individual question level. This remains one of LSE’s weakest categories.
- Mental health and wellbeing: two new questions on mental health and wellbeing support, separating out department and central provisions, each scored 89% and 89% – up from 81% for a combined question last year.
- Sense of belonging: there have been improvements in each question in the category, which is up 5ppt to 78%, with the largest gain for the question “I feel supported by this university” (up 8 ppt to 77%). Uniquely, this category is scored on the old 5 point scale, which will have led to a lower score overall.
Notable results in the NSS 2026 include:
- LSE has gone up in every category bar ‘Learning resources’ (which has a high score of 90.8% but saw a slight drop of 0.1 ppt).
- We have seen improvements across all ESE focus areas, including the categories ‘Assessment and feedback’ (+3.7 ppt) and ‘Mental wellbeing services’ (+3.1 ppt), and priority questions on marking criteria (Q10, +5.6 ppt) and closing the feedback loop (Q24, +1.3 ppt)
- Our average ranking across the academic question categories1 places us 5th (out of 24) in the Russell Group
- All academic question categories are ‘in-line’ with or ‘materially above’ their OfS-set benchmark (meaning none is lower than 2.5 ppt below).
- LSE has the highest scores among the London Russell Group for ‘Assessment and feedback’, ‘Academic support’ and ‘Organisation and management’.
Notable highlights in the PGT Survey 2026 include:
- An increase in the School response rate by 8.6ppt compared to last year (from 31.8% to 40.4%), with 22 of 24 departments recording higher response rates.
- Overall Satisfaction held steady (down 1ppt at 87%).
- The following categories score 90%+ at the school level: Teaching on my programme,Academic Support, Learning Resources, Freedom of Expression, and Programme Delivery.
- Scores have increased for 4 of the 5 Assessment and Feedback questions. The largestincrease was for ‘How clear were the marking criteria used to assess your work?’ (+2.1 ppt). The only question to fall was a small dip in ‘How often does feedback help you to improve your work?’ (-0.1 ppt).
- Mental Wellbeing Services scored strongly at department and School levels (88-90%).
- Several departments saw widespread improvements, including Media and Communications which increased scores in 15 categories (every category except Learning Resources), Social Policy which increased scores in 14 categories, and Government, Management, and Law which increased scores in 13 categories each.