The questionnaire was designed in four parts.
The first part is life satisfaction,*** there are 12 sub-items. They are accommodation, food, sports facilities, club activities, access to help, complaint path and feedback, campus security, daily life facilities, personal space, classmate relations, campus environment, and evaluation of the city where they live.
The second section was learning/education satisfaction. This part examines 14 aspects such as teaching facilities, library collection, campus network, teacher level, practice opportunities, learning atmosphere, personal progress, and merit system.
The third part is employment/income satisfaction. This part mainly examines students' evaluation of the school's career guidance, graduates' destination, graduates' income and other related contents.
The fourth part of the questionnaire is satisfaction with university consumption. This part examines the students' evaluation of the university's tuition, miscellaneous fees, food, Internet access, the use of laboratory equipment and other costs.
Data Processing
The four parts, i.e., life satisfaction, study/education satisfaction, employment/income satisfaction, and university consumption satisfaction, were rated according to the different levels of satisfaction, such as: very satisfied, quite satisfied, average, less satisfied, and very dissatisfied, and then the scores of the parts were summed up and converted into a percentage system using a total score of 100 points for each part and 25 points for each part. 100 points, each part of the form of 25 points, and then ranked according to the total score.
Analysis of data distribution
Since the original data is only transformed in scale during processing, i.e., the original data is expanded to the percentage level in the same proportion, it does not affect the distribution of data. From the statistical results show that for a full score of 100 points, the overall satisfaction scores of the major universities are not high, which indicates that there is still a certain distance between the specific situation of the school in all aspects and the expectations of students.
Taking the top-ranked Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as an example, its satisfaction score is 72.456867, a score that can hardly be called excellent. What's more concerning is that about 1/3 of the colleges and universities have a failing satisfaction score. The vast majority of the 100 universities in the survey are well-known universities, and it is undoubtedly regrettable to see such results in the survey.
While the overall satisfaction scores are not high, the difference between the scores of different colleges and universities is relatively small, thus reflecting that although the overall strength of the schools vary greatly, but from the perspective of the students, students in different environments for their own environment of the degree of satisfaction or complaint is roughly the same.
Overall Satisfaction Ranking
From the ranking status of the schools, it can be seen that the results of the ranking do not necessarily correlate with the quantitative evaluation of the overall strength of the universities by the society. For example, Tsinghua University and Peking University ranked only 45 and 26, while Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Science and Technology of China, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology were in the top three.
The quantitative assessment of the strength of a university is certainly a more objective and convincing indicator, but for students, it is more concerned about the actual fulfillment of the school's requirements for all aspects of their studies and lives.
The evaluation of a school's overall strength is based on a number of indicators related to the school's software and hardware strength, such as the ratio of professors to students, the number of national key disciplines, the number of libraries, the size of the school's footprint, the school's floor space, and so on, which is an overall evaluation of the school's resources. For a student, the resources that he or she can enjoy in school are only a part of the overall resources, and certain aspects do not have a great impact on an average student, especially an undergraduate student. Evaluating the school from the student's perspective is in fact a measure of the available resources provided by the school that are actually relevant to the student, and is therefore quite informative.
In addition, in the four sub-items of the overall satisfaction ranking, it can also be found that the 100 colleges and universities, on average, ranked these four indicators from high to low as follows: satisfaction with life - satisfaction with study/education - satisfaction with employment/income --Consumption satisfaction (figure below).
It can be seen that the students of the universities are most dissatisfied with the university's fees, and are also more anxious about employment and income.
Sub-satisfaction rankings
The sub-satisfaction rankings tallied in this survey reflect the unique campus temperament of each school. The sub-satisfaction rankings cover 20 areas, including club activity activity, student loans, teacher responsibility, professional knowledge and structure, and career guidance.
For example, in terms of active club activities, the Central Academy of Drama and Theater, Jinan University and Hebei University are at the top. And in terms of career guidance, where graduates go and what they earn after graduation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics has a considerable advantage.
To take this university or not
The survey was designed to ask graduating undergraduates about the recommendability of their alma mater, i.e., whether it is recommended to apply. The rankings of recommendation to apply for admission do not coincide with the overall rankings of satisfaction, but those with higher scores are basically prestigious universities. For example, Fudan University only ranked 74th in the overall ranking, but topped the list of recommended schools. This reflects that although students from some of the top schools have higher expectations and a certain degree of dissatisfaction with their schools, they cannot ignore the trust in the future development of the school and the higher sense of belonging to the school brought about by the school's social popularity and overall strength. For students who read this survey of the upcoming college entrance exams, the choice of colleges and universities and majors, still need to synthesize their own and social needs of multiple situations, make a prudent choice.