Catholic universities have featured in the top twenty for overall student satisfaction this year.
Liverpool Hope University (pictured) and Heythrop College have ranked seventh and eleventh respectively in the National Student Survey, which annually asks final year students at every publicly funded higher education institution in the UK to rate their experience of university life.
This year’s ratings are the second to include undergraduates who paid the higher tuition fees introduced in 2012.
At Liverpool Hope University 92 per cent of registered students said they were satisfied with their course and 91 per cent at Heythrop College, London; both results mark an increase in satisfaction levels from 2015.
Professor Gerald Pillay, Vice Chancellor and Rector of Liverpool Hope, said: “The student experience is at the heart of all we do, and we are delighted that these results show just how much our students benefit from that.” He attributed their success in part to “educating the whole person” and to small classes.
Responding to the results, outgoing Heythrop College Principal, Fr Michael Holman, said: “This is a real tribute to the work of our staff and students at such a challenging time”. He was referring to the recent news of the failed attempt to merge the College with Roehampton University, after announcing it would be forced to close in 2018 in its present form as a college of the university of London.
Other universities with Catholic roots: St Mary’s Twickenham; Newman University, Birmingham; Leeds Trinity University; and the University of Roehampton in south-west London, all registered lower student satisfaction since 2015, although all received percentages within the 80s.
The overall top universities as chosen by their students were the University of Buckingham and The University of Law.
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