National Survey of Student Engagement Reports

Research shows that the best predictor of learning and personal development among college students is the amount of time students spend “engaged” in their education through such elements as student-faculty contact, academic challenge, cooperation among students, and prompt feedback.

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is designed to assess the extent to which colleges effectively engage students in their education.

Centre College has participated every year since the survey began in 2000 and is one of only a handful of colleges to have participated every year and made all its NSSE results available to the public.

2011
Mean Comparisons and Frequency Distributions

Centre exceeds national average in all NSSE categories

2010
Mean Comparisons and Frequency Distributions

Centre scores above the norm in all NSSE survey categories

2009
Mean Comparisons and Frequency Distributions

Centre scores highly in all NSSE survey engagement categories

2008
Mean Comparisons and Frequency Distributions

NSSE survey scores Centre highly in all engagement categories

2007
Mean Comparisons and Frequency Distributions

NSSE survey reports Centre a national leader in student engagement

2006
Mean Comparisons and Frequency Distributions

Survey reports Centre a national leader in student engagement

2005
Mean Comparisons and Frequency Distributions

National survey shows Centre students more "educationally engaged" on average than those of other leading institutions

2004
Mean Comparisons and Frequency Distributions

Centre students among most "educationally engaged" in the country

2003
Mean Comparisons and Frequency Distributions

Centre delivers monster (NSSE) results

2002
Mean Comparisons

Frequency Distributions

College shines in National Survey of Student Engagement

2001
Mean Comparisons

Frequency Distributions

In national survey Centre receives highest score for providing support campus environment for freshmen

2000
Frequency Distributions

Centre College rates high in new survey of education