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THE Student Experience Poll 2017 : do farmers have the best time at uni?

Harper Adams, the specialist uni for agriculture, has topped THE 2017 poll for Student Experience, replacing last year's winner Loughborough.

#1 Harper Adams
#2 Loughborough
#3 Sheffield
#4 Leeds
#5 Surrey

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Source: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/student-experience-survey-2017-results
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Original post by Doonesbury
Harper Adams has topped THE 2017 poll for Student Experience, replacing last year's winner Loughborough.

#1 Harper Adams
#2 Loughborough
#3 Sheffield
#4 Leeds
#5 Surrey



Source: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/student-experience-survey-2017-results

Ouch LSE
Original post by PQ
Ouch LSE


Ouch indeed!

@Doonesbury this is really interesting, going to have a read now :cyber:
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Original post by She-Ra
@Doonesbury this is really interesting, going to have a read now :cyber:


:reel: lol :smile:
Reply 7
I know a couple of people at Harper Adams, as well as Cirencester (Royal Agricultural University) and they seem to be having a fantastic time. It looks like they have a lot of fun. It looks great, especially if you're on the rugby team or something like that.
Poor OU. :frown: Still, it's interesting that a distance learning university (with very few student services) beat a number of brick universities.
Original post by ozo
I know a couple of people at Harper Adams, as well as Cirencester (Royal Agricultural University) and they seem to be having a fantastic time. It looks like they have a lot of fun. It looks great, especially if you're on the rugby team or something like that.


Feels like it has a really close knit community and that's why everyone is so happy, well that's the impression I always got....

What kinds of courses are they studying at HA?
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I'm even surprised Dundee makes it into the top 20. But then, I am biased about my uni.
Original post by She-Ra
Feels like it has a really close knit community and that's why everyone is so happy, well that's the impression I always got....

What kinds of courses are they studying at HA?


Naaah - it's cos they're all posh (harper adams has fewer kids from poor neighbourhoods than Guildhall & Trinity Laban)
Surprised that Bristol and Soton are so low- anyone know why?
Original post by Aerospengie
Surprised that Bristol and Soton are so low- anyone know why?


200 respondents out of 20,000 students...

Although Bristol does very poorly on the NSS as well and Soton has been static for a few years
They should attempt to show the number of respondents as a proportion of undergraduates to show how reliable each result is
Original post by ozo
I know a couple of people at Harper Adams, as well as Cirencester (Royal Agricultural University) and they seem to be having a fantastic time. It looks like they have a lot of fun. It looks great, especially if you're on the rugby team or something like that.


Yeah, definitely. The Rugby club have a bit of a reputation, as do the shooting club. All sorts of drunken antics and dodgy sounding initiations. Then there's the fresher's challenge (which I didn't do, but pretty much every other fresher did) which does seem to have been toned down a bit in the last few years.

I also think it being a smaller university makes it more close knit.
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Original post by She-Ra
Feels like it has a really close knit community and that's why everyone is so happy, well that's the impression I always got....

What kinds of courses are they studying at HA?


At Harper Adams, Agriculture mainly.
Original post by RF_PineMarten
Yeah, definitely. The Rugby club have a bit of a reputation, as do the shooting club. All sorts of drunken antics and dodgy sounding initiations. Then there's the fresher's challenge (which I didn't do, but pretty much every other fresher did) which does seem to have been toned down a bit in the last few years.

I also think it being a smaller university makes it more close knit.

Iirc they got into trouble for trying to go in a local pub naked :lol: i wonder why... It does seem to have a nice feel to it though (the uni that is, no idea about the rugby club)
Any suggestions for why LSE has fared so poorly?
Original post by furryface12
Iirc they got into trouble for trying to go in a local pub naked :lol:


I haven't heard that one before but I believe you.

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