National Student Survey for Medicine 2015
UK medical schools ranked by mean score across 22 questions
Medical School
Oxford
Keele
Brighton and
Sussex
Sheffield
QMUL
Aberdeen
Hull and York
Exeter
Leeds
Newcastle
Southampton
Plymouth
Dundee
Queen's Belfast
Birmingham
Cambridge
St George's
Manchester
Glasgow
UEA
Cardiff
Imperial
Swansea
UCL
Bristol
Leicester
Edinburgh
Liverpool
Warwick
KCL
Nottingham
Lancaster
Change
Mean
Mean
%
%
in rank
score
score
satisfied satisfied Rank
Rank
20142015
2014
2015
2014
2015
2014
2015
4.67
4.66
98
99
1
1
0
4.55
4.54
98
96
2
2
0
4.53
4.52
4.50
4.36
4.34
4.33
4.31
4.27
4.26
4.24
4.21
4.18
4.15
4.13
4.10
4.09
4.08
4.04
4.04
4.04
4.01
3.98
3.97
3.82
3.80
3.78
3.76
3.63
3.50
no data
4.51
98
3.98
97
4.36
96
4.05
96
4.01
95
4.39
97
4.18
94
4.25
95
4.15
92
4.36
91
4.24
96
4.18
89
4.03
92
4.01
88
3.88
87
4.1
83
4.26
89
4.12
86
4.1
92
4.08
91
3.74
90
3.97
92
4.08
86
3.76
83
3.7
76
3.94
70
3.83
78
3.66
66
3.79
67
4.06 no data
96
3
86
4
94
5
86
6
92
7
96
8
91
9
95
10
88
11
96
12
94
13
87
14
91
15
82
16
83
17
89
18
91
19
89
20
87
21
90
22
67
23
90
24
86
25
85
26
80
27
76
28
86
29
69
30
82
31
94 no data
3
23
5
19
21
4
11
8
12
6
9
10
20
21
26
14
7
13
14
16
30
24
16
29
31
25
27
32
28
18
0
19
0
13
14
-4
2
-2
1
-6
-4
-4
5
5
9
-4
-12
-7
-7
-6
7
0
-9
3
4
-3
-2
2
-3
The National Student Survey is an on-line survey offered to all final year students in all
degree courses in UK Higher Education Institutions. The survey consists of 22 questions.
Respondents answer each of the 22 questions on a five point Likert scale from 1 (definitely
disagree) to 5 (definitely agree). Above, I have summarised the results for Oxford and other
UK medical schools for 2015. I have given two scores: the mean across all 22 questions and
the percentage agreeing to question 22. The latter score aggregates the proportion of students
answering ‘mostly agree’ or ‘definitely agree’ to the question ‘Overall, I am satisfied with the
quality of the course’ and is the headline measure used by the UNISTAT website. 87% of
Oxford students answered this question with ‘definitely agree’: by far the highest proportion
in any UK medical school.
Tim Lancaster
12/08/2015