NSSE 2019 Selected Comparison Groups About This Report
Comparison Groups
The NSSE Institutional Report displays core survey results for your students alongside those of three comparison groups. In May, your institution was invited to customize these groups via a form on the Institution Interface. This report summarizes how your comparison groups were constructed and lists the institutions within them.
NSSE comparison groups may be customized by (a) identifying specific institutions from the list of all 2018 and 2019 NSSE participants, (b) composing the group by selecting institutional characteristics, or (c) a combination of these. Institutions that chose not to customize received default groupsa that provide relevant comparisons for most institutions.
Institutions that appended additional question sets in the form of Topical Modules or through consortium participation were also invited to customize comparison groups for those reports. The default for those groups was all other 2018 and 2019 institutions where the questions were administered. Please note: Comparison group details for Topical Module and consortium reports are documented separately in those reports.
a. The default groups are:
Comparison Group 1: For institutions not in a NSSE consortium, this group contains 2018 and 2019 NSSE institutions in the same geographic region and sector (public/private). For consortium institutions, it contains results for the other 2018 (if applicable) and 2019 consortium members.
Comparison Group 2: All other 2018 and 2019 U.S. NSSE institutions sharing your institution's Basic Carnegie Classification. (Canadian institutions are not classified by the Carnegie Foundation, and must identify a comparison group.)
Comparison Group 3: All other 2018 and 2019 U.S. NSSE institutions (2018 and 2019 Canadian participants are also included in this group for Canadian institutions).
NSSE 2019 SELECTED COMPARISON GROUPS