Student Life comments are broadly upbeat: roughly three-quarters of sentences are positive and one-quarter negative, with the strongest tone among full‑time, younger and international students. Lower sentiment concentrates among part‑time, mature and disabled students.
Scope: UK NSS open‑text comments tagged to the Student life category across academic years 2018–2025.
Volume: 11,954 comments; 100.0% sentiment‑coded.
Overall mood: 74.7% Positive, 23.3% Negative, 2.0% Neutral (≈3.2:1 positive:negative); sentiment index +45.6.
Segment snapshot (selected)
Group | Share % | Pos % | Neg % | Sentiment idx | n |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age — Young | 72.3 | 76.2 | 21.7 | 47.9 | 8639 |
Age — Mature | 25.3 | 70.2 | 28.0 | 39.5 | 3019 |
Mode — Full‑time | 76.8 | 77.0 | 20.9 | 49.0 | 9183 |
Mode — Part‑time | 20.3 | 65.5 | 32.4 | 33.2 | 2421 |
Disability — Not disabled | 78.4 | 75.6 | 22.2 | 47.2 | 9375 |
Disability — Disabled | 19.1 | 70.6 | 27.8 | 39.6 | 2289 |
Domicile — Not UK domiciled | 7.2 | 81.6 | 16.7 | 56.5 | 855 |
Domicile — White (UK ethnicity) | 66.5 | 73.6 | 24.2 | 44.5 | 7955 |
Subject areas (CAH1) — variation (n ≥ 200)
Subject group (CAH1) | Share % | Sentiment idx | n |
---|---|---|---|
Medicine and dentistry | 4.1 | 60.2 | 485 |
Design, and creative and performing arts | 3.9 | 56.0 | 470 |
Subjects allied to medicine | 7.9 | 55.3 | 946 |
Engineering and technology | 3.7 | 53.6 | 438 |
Geography, earth and environmental studies | 2.2 | 51.6 | 259 |
Psychology | 6.5 | 32.5 | 776 |
Historical, philosophical and religious studies | 4.4 | 32.6 | 531 |
Mathematical sciences | 2.0 | 34.1 | 241 |
Social sciences | 11.0 | 36.0 | 1317 |
Combined and general studies | 3.7 | 38.4 | 447 |
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