Record-high student satis­fac­tion at Karelia UAS

Karelia Univer­sity of Applied Sciences collects annual feed­back from its students. Accord­ing to the feed­back survey conducted this year, the student satis­fac­tion of degree students at Karelia UAS is very good (80 %). The feed­back ques­tion­naire was answered by first-year, second-year, third-year and fourth-year Bachelor’s degree students and first-year Master’s degree students.

– Since all students, includ­ing grad­u­at­ing students, have been partic­i­pat­ing in the survey, the level of satis­fac­tion was now the highest in the history of Karelia UAS. Overall, student satis­fac­tion improved by two percent­age points, mainly due to a signif­i­cant improve­ment in second-year students’ satis­fac­tion. It is great to see that we have succeeded this well in these excep­tional corona times. I would like to thank our staff and students for their good work and for the smooth intro­duc­tion of new working and study­ing methods, states Vice Pres­i­dent Pekka Auvinen.

The best feed­back was provided by Bachelor’s degree students in phys­io­ther­apy (satis­fac­tion 86 %), busi­ness infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy (85 %), IB (83 %), forestry (82 %), tourism (81 %) and build­ing services engi­neer­ing (81 %). The overall feed­back from Master’s degree students was very good (satis­fac­tion 93 %). The result improved clearly from previ­ous year’s results and was the best result in the history of Karelia UAS.

Karelia UAS has been collect­ing feed­back from students since 1999. This year’s feed­back ques­tion­naire was open from 2nd Decem­ber 2020 to 3rd March 2021. A total of 1,425 responses were received, includ­ing 1,337 responses from Bachelor’s degree students and 88 from Master’s degree students. The number of respon­dents was at the same level as in the last few years.