Postgraduate Taught Engagement Survey

The Postgraduate Taught Engagement Survey (PTES) is a national survey of postgraduate taught (PGT) students. The survey is your opportunity to feed back on what we're doing well and where we need to improve at all stages of the student experience.

It will allow us to make changes in response to your feedback and help us shape decisions on areas such as teaching, academic support, assessments, support services and more. 

Your feedback is important. Over one hundred universities and colleges take part. This means we can compare your experience against similar postgraduates at other institutions to see if we are supporting your learning as we should. We use the findings to improve our courses and the learning experience for future students. 

Your survey response is confidential to the team processing the results and no reporting outside of this team will identify any individual. Any results communicated to teaching staff will be anonymised.

The survey asks that any comments you make should not identify yourself or any specific members of staff.

PTES concentrates on your course and includes:

• The experience of teaching and learning, including: staff, learning materials, working with other students;
• Engagement and course challenge;
• Community
• Assessment and feedback, including supervisor support for dissertation or major project;
• Organisation and management, including induction and involvement in course decisions;
• Resources, including learning resources;
• Overall satisfaction.

The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey is your chance to tell us your thoughts about your course. The results help us compare how we are doing with other institutions, to make changes that will improve what we do in future and to keep doing the things that you value. This will help improve the experience of students like you in the future. 

The survey opens on Tuesday 6 May and closes on Friday 13 June.

Every student who completes the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win one of ten £100 Amazon vouchers. The winners will be selected at random after the survey closes on Friday 13 June and will be contacted via their BCU email address.

Complete the survey by Friday 13 June to claim a free four-week bus pass with Transport for West Midlands. Your promotional code and information on how to claim will be sent to you within 2-3 working days after your claim.