Student Survey: More satisfied with the learning environment

“I’m glad to see the trend starting to move in the right direction, even though we still have a way to go,” says Pro-Rector Silje Fekjær.

“A good learning environment is important for students’ learning, but it is also a goal in itself: we want students to thrive while they are at OsloMet. In recent years, we have initiated several new measures to improve the learning environment.”

“A lot of good work is being done within individual programmes, such as mentoring schemes, student-run workshops, and language support.”

“We are also working to make our facilities more accessible to student associations and student activities, and to better facilitate the buddy programme at the start of the academic year.”

Variation between programmes

Although the institution-level figures are fairly stable, student satisfaction varies between programmes.

Among those most satisfied or showing clear improvement in this year’s survey are the nursing programme at Kjeller, the child welfare programme, product design, and the part-time early childhood teacher education programme.

The nursing programme at Kjeller has improved its results in most areas in recent years. Head of Studies Kari Anne Hakestad says she has emphasised ensuring a short distance between students and staff in the programme, and finds that this is something students appreciate.

“We see that students are spending more time on campus. I believe the fact that students and staff meet regularly is an important reason why students are more satisfied.”

Will continue working on improvements

Fekjær says there are some areas where students’ feedback clearly indicates that something must change.

“We see that many students are not satisfied with the information they receive about their programme and with our physical spaces. That is a clear signal to the university: we must continue to work for clearer information, better websites, more shared teaching rooms, and better spaces where our students can work, hang out, and meet.”

Increased use of artificial intelligence

This year’s survey shows an increase in students’ use of artificial intelligence compared with 2024. Students use AI tools for many different tasks, but the share using them for quality-checking and editing text is increasing sharply.

Using AI to explain the curriculum and summarise texts, as well as for brainstorming and as a discussion partner, is widespread among OsloMet students.

Teacher education under scrutiny

In this year’s Studiebarometer, the Directorate for Higher Education and Skills took a particular look at the primary and lower secondary teacher education programmes. At OsloMet, overall satisfaction among teacher education students is somewhat better than last year, but still below the national average.

“We are aware of many of the challenges the students point to, and we are not satisfied that so many teacher education students are not content. The results provide a basis for digging deeper into the numbers: reading course evaluations, looking at open-ended responses and, not least, talking to students about how they experience the programme. The goal now is to understand more about what we should do differently.”

About the Studiebarometer

• The student survey Studiebarometeret maps students’ perceptions of the quality of study programmes.
• The Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir) is responsible for the survey. They took over responsibility from NOKUT in 2025.
• From 2025 onward, Studiebarometeret for universities and university colleges will be conducted every other year.
• At OsloMet this year, 31 percent of the students surveyed responded to the questionnaire.
• See more about the OsloMet figures (link).
• Studiebarometeret - all figures (studiebarometeret.no)

(This text has been translated with the use of SIKT KI-chat. The text has been quality assured by OsloMet.)