The National Student Survey results have now been made public and Strathclyde Business School's courses have had excellent feedback.
The Economics Department has achieved among the highest level of overall student satisfaction of any Department at Strathclyde in the most recent National Student Survey, well above the national average, and has returned the highest scores within SBS in the 'Teaching' and 'Academic Support' categories. In a comparison with the other 62 UK Universities whose Economics programmes were included in the survey, Strathclyde Economics is ranked second only to the University of Buckingham in terms of "overall student satisfaction" (jointly with Dundee).
Specifically, 97% of student respondents rated the overall quality of their course good or very good. This result is 13 percentage points above the UK average achieved across 63 Economics undergraduate programmes included in the survey, and puts Strathclyde Economics well above neighbouring Scottish Departments in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The full Scottish set of results for Economics was Strathclyde 97% Dundee 97% Stirling 89% Heriot Watt 87% Edinburgh 83% Aberdeen 82% Glasgow 80%.
Accounting received an overall satisfaction figure of 95% while Finance gained 96%, which means that for the past four years the department's results have been above 90% for both Accounting and Finance.
The Department of Marketing underlined its status as a leading European centre of excellence for the study of marketing by achieving the best 'Overall Satisfaction' rating among all UK academic marketing departments. A satisfying 96% of the Marketing students who responded to the Survey expressed satisfaction with their experience of the Department. Students' perceptions of the Department's performance on the individual dimensions assessed, including Assessment and Feedback, also improved on virtually every respect.
Management Studies also gained a high level of student satisfaction of 95%.
The survey is carried out by Ipsos MORI on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, and asks final year students for their views on a range of issues including teaching, assessment and feedback, academic support, learning resources, personal development and overall satisfaction with their course.