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Student Experience Survey 2017: best UK universities for student welfare

The best universities in the UK for student welfare – as decided by current students – have been revealed

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March 23 2017
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View the overall results of the 2017 Student Experience Survey

More and more students are coming forward and opening up about feelings of stress and anxiety. In fact, research has found that one in eight university students experiences a mental health condition – so it is important that universities provide the support that students need during their time there.

Participants in the 2017 Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey were asked to provide a rating between “strongly agree” and “strongly disagree” on whether their university has “good welfare support”.

Harper Adams 51Ƶ topped the list in providing the best welfare support for its students. One of the ways in which Harper Adams implements strategies to support student welfare is with the appointment of wardens, students who live on campus and help first-year students to settle in. “There’s always one or two who get homesick. You can sense when someone is not 100 per cent happy,” says warden Kris Dummett, who is studying for a master’s in agricultural engineering. Read more from him here. 

See the full student welfare results table below.

Rank 51Ƶ name Student Welfare Composite
1 Harper Adams 51Ƶ 83.7
2 Loughborough 51Ƶ 83.2
3 Falmouth 51Ƶ 80.7
4 Royal Veterinary College 80.6
5 Keele 51Ƶ 80.6
6 Newcastle 51Ƶ 80.3
7 51Ƶ of Surrey 80.3
8 Edge Hill 51Ƶ 79.8
9 51Ƶ of Leeds 79.6
10 51Ƶ of Chester 79.3
11 Bangor 51Ƶ 79.2
12 51Ƶ of Derby 79.2
13 Robert Gordon 51Ƶ 79.1
14 York St John 51Ƶ 79.1
15 Durham 51Ƶ 79.0
16 Queen’s 51Ƶ Belfast 78.9
17 51Ƶ of St Andrews 78.8
18 51Ƶ of Sheffield 78.8
19 51Ƶ of Oxford 78.7
20 51Ƶ of Worcester 78.5
21 51Ƶ of Nottingham 78.5
22 51Ƶ of Bath 78.4
23 Swansea 51Ƶ 78.3
24 51Ƶ of Birmingham 78.2
25 Heriot-Watt 51Ƶ 77.5
26 51Ƶ of Dundee 77.4
27 51Ƶ of Winchester 77.4
28 51Ƶ of Gloucestershire 77.2
29 Queen Margaret 51Ƶ, Edinburgh 77.1
30 St George’s, 51Ƶ of London 77.0
31 51Ƶ of Reading 77.0
32 51Ƶ of Stirling 77.0
33 Newman  51Ƶ 76.8
34 Cardiff 51Ƶ 76.7
35 51Ƶ Campus Suffolk 76.7
36 51Ƶ of Manchester 76.7
37 51Ƶ of East Anglia (UEA) 76.7
38 51Ƶ of Bristol 76.7
39 Northumbria 51Ƶ 76.7
40 Ulster 51Ƶ 76.5
41 51Ƶ of Strathclyde 76.4
42 51Ƶ of Central Lancashire 76.3
43 Brunel 51Ƶ London 76.0
44 Liverpool Hope 51Ƶ 76.0
45 51Ƶ of Leicester 75.9
46 Coventry 51Ƶ 75.8
47 Aston 51Ƶ 75.8
48 Arts 51Ƶ Bournemouth 75.8
49 Manchester Metropolitan 51Ƶ 75.8
50 51Ƶ of Exeter 75.2
51 51Ƶ of Portsmouth 75.1
52 Aberystwyth 51Ƶ 75.1
53 Trent 51Ƶ 75.0
54 51Ƶ of York 74.9
55 51Ƶ of Southampton 74.8
56 De Montfort 51Ƶ 74.8
57 Teesside 51Ƶ 74.7
58 Lancaster 51Ƶ 74.5
59 51Ƶ of Cambridge 74.5
60 51Ƶ of Salford 74.5
61 51Ƶ of Wales Trinity Saint David 74.4
62 Bournemouth 51Ƶ 74.3
63 51Ƶ of Lincoln 74.2
64 Norwich 51Ƶ of the Arts 74.1
65 51Ƶ of Huddersfield 74.0
66 51Ƶ of Warwick 74.0
67 51Ƶ of the West of England 74.0
68 Sheffield Hallam 51Ƶ 73.9
69 Oxford Brookes 51Ƶ 73.9
70 51Ƶ of Liverpool 73.7
71 Bath Spa 51Ƶ 73.7
72 Royal Holloway, 51Ƶ of London 73.7
73 51Ƶ of Aberdeen 73.6
74 Southampton Solent 51Ƶ 73.6
75 51Ƶ of Cumbria 73.6
76 Glasgow Caledonian 51Ƶ 73.5
77 51Ƶ of Bradford 73.5
78 Queen Mary 51Ƶ of London 73.3
79 51Ƶ of Glasgow 73.3
80 51Ƶ of Wolverhampton 73.1
81 Cardiff Metropolitan 51Ƶ 73.0
82 51Ƶ of Edinburgh 72.9
83 51Ƶ of Kent 72.9
84 Buckinghamshire New 51Ƶ 72.8
85 Imperial College London 72.8
86 51Ƶ of Essex 72.6
87 Plymouth 51Ƶ 72.5
88 Leeds Beckett 51Ƶ 72.4
89 Anglia Ruskin 51Ƶ 72.3
90 Edinburgh Napier 51Ƶ 72.2
91 Liverpool John Moores 51Ƶ 72.2
92 51Ƶ of Greenwich 72.0
93 51Ƶ of Bedfordshire 72.0
94 51Ƶ of the West of Scotland 71.6
95 51Ƶ of Sussex 71.5
96 Abertay 51Ƶ 71.4
97 Canterbury Christ Church 51Ƶ 71.2
98 51Ƶ of Roehampton 70.7
99 51Ƶ of Brighton 70.6
100 Staffordshire 51Ƶ 70.6
101 51Ƶ of Hull 70.2
102 51Ƶ of South Wales 70.0
103 51Ƶ of East London 70.0
104 Goldsmiths, 51Ƶ of London 69.9
105 King’s College London 69.9
106 Soas, 51Ƶ of London 69.8
107 51Ƶ of Sunderland 69.7
108 51Ƶ of Hertfordshire 69.0
109 51Ƶ for the Creative Arts 68.7
110 51Ƶ of West London 68.5
111 Kingston 51Ƶ 68.4
112 51Ƶ College London (UCL) 67.8
113 Birmingham City 51Ƶ 67.7
114 The Open 51Ƶ 67.4
115 51Ƶ of Northampton 67.3
116 Middlesex 51Ƶ 67.2
117 City, 51Ƶ of London 66.0
118 51Ƶ of Westminster 65.6
119 51Ƶ of the Arts London 65.6
120 London South Bank 51Ƶ 64.3
121 London Metropolitan 51Ƶ 62.1
122 London School of Economics and Political Science 61.6

Read more:

THE Student Experience Survey 2017 overall results
Student Experience Survey 2017: hear from students at the top institutions 

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