National Student Survey 2007
Posted on 9 December 2008
York chemistry students are the most satisfied of all undergraduate students studying chemistry at a UK university, according to The Times Higher Educational Supplement assessment of the 2007 NSS data, published on 13 September 2007.
For the last three years the Higher Education Funding Council has surveyed undergraduate students about to graduate to assess their satisfaction with their degree course. The 2005 and 2006 NSS results had already shown very high levels of student satisfaction in the York physical sciences courses (chemistry and physics combined). The 2007 results contain, for the first time, direct information about university chemistry departments, rather than combined information about chemistry and physics. The survey shows that York chemistry students are more satisfied with their course than are those on any other chemistry course in the UK.
The results are a pleasing endorsement of the department's long-standing commitment to delivering the very highest standards of teaching in chemistry. Amongst the many reasons for this success is that the department uses small group teaching as an important part of teaching delivery. Moreover, the department is the only one in the UK to have three Royal Society of Chemistry teaching awards for the quality of its lecturers.
More details of our teaching arrangements and student views of the York courses are on our undergraduate study pages.