WGU National Survey of Student Engagement 2026

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is conducted annually and asks undergraduate first-year and senior students about the quality and characteristics of their higher education experience. The 2026 survey collected 310,414 responses from students at 444 institutions in the U.S. and Canada. First-year and senior students are about equally represented in the responses. Results shown are “top two box” responses, which means they reflect the percentage of respondents who rated the institutions most favorably (e.g., good and excellent, often and very often, yes and definitely yes, or 6 and 7 on a scale of 1–7).