Each year the National Survey of Student Engagement, or NSSE, asks students at hundreds of colleges and universities to reflect on their experience at school through questions targeted at student success. Results from NSSE offer prospective students insights into how they might learn and develop at a given college.
According to NSSE, COA stands among the top 10% of all colleges for our students' engagement with learning. These results, highlighted below, were provided by randomly selected first-year students and seniors. The charts, comparing COA student responses to our selected and Carnegie peers, and to all other colleges who have elected to take NSSE's survey, were created from information provided by NSSE.
Some colleges selected by NSSE as our peer group: Bennington, Berea, Hampshire, Hobart & William Smith, Marlboro, Skidmore, Vassar and Williams .
93% of COA first-year students and 97% of our seniors say that COA trains students to think critically and analytically.1
About two-thirds of COA first-year students and seniors find they frequently work harder than they ever thought they could to meet faculty expectations.
First-year students report substantial emphasis on the following activities in COA classes:
- Analyzing basic elements of an idea or theory: 95%
- Synthesizing and organizing ideas: 89%
- Applying theories or concepts: 89%
- Making judgments about value of information: 86%
- Memorizing facts, ideas, or methods: 13%
86% of COA's first-year students frequently discuss readings or ideas from coursework outside of class.
More than 90% of both first-year students and seniors say they frequently bring in concepts learned in other classes to assignments or class discussions.
By senior year, all COA students have participated in some form of practicum, internship, field experience, co-op or clinical assignment, a graduation requirement. By choice, 100% of COA students have taken an independent study class by senior year.
82% of first-year students at COA report that they at least occasionally spend time with faculty members on activities other than coursework.
By their senior year, more than one-third of COA students will have done original research with a faculty member.
94% of COA seniors discuss career plans with faculty.
Two-thirds of first-year students at COA say they frequently have serious conversations with students who hold differing religious, political or personal beliefs.
84% of first-year students at COA say they frequently have serious conversations with students of a different race.2
By the time they are seniors, 97% of COA students have participated in community service or volunteer work.
96% of first-year students report a favorable image of COA; 82% of seniors would choose COA again if they were staring their college career over.
96% of first-year students feel COA has a substantial commitment to their academic success.
1All graphs taken from NSSE comparison data between COA results and those of COA's selected and Carnegie peers, along with all NSSE respondant colleges.
www.nsse.iub.edu / nsse@indiana.edu
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