Studiebarometeret – The National Student Survey

The survey is open until midnight Sunday, 24 November.

Dear student. Voice your opinion about the quality of your study program!

This is an invitation to participate in Studiebarometeret – the national student survey. The questionnaire can be answered in Norwegian or English.

The purpose of the survey

Our goal is to capture students’ view of the quality of education, and to make this information available to universities, students and others. The results give educational institutions the opportunity to make improvements. Data from the survey are also used for research purposes. Results are published on www.studiebarometeret.no/eng, as average scores for individual study programmes. The survey is conducted by NOKUT, and commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Research.

Why are you being asked to participate?

Studiebarometeret is a survey among all the students in the 2nd and 5th year of study. In total around 70.000 students will receive the survey. Your institution has allowed us to retrieve directly personally identifiable information (email address and phone number) and indirectly identifiable information (study programme, gender, age, admission basis, exam results and citizenship) about you.

What does participation entail for you?

You participate in the survey by filling out a web questionnaire, which takes about 8-12 minutes to complete. All respondents have the chance to win either one of five gift cards with a value of 5000 NOK, or one of 15 gift cards with a value of 1000 NOK.

Participation is voluntary

Participation in the survey is voluntary. You may at any time and without reason ask that we remove all information about you.

Have your received an SMS or email invitation?

You have already participated if you have answered the questionnaire by using the link in SMS or email. If you did not complete the questionnaire, you can continue by using the login on this page.

SMS with link to the questionnaire

To get a personal link to your questionnaire, enter your mobile phone number in the box below. NB! Only 2nd and 5th year students with a valid phone number. 

Access your questionnaire

Type in your mobile phone number and receive your personal link. This applies for Scandinavian phone numbers only.

Your personal privacy – how we store and use your personal data

We will process your personal data confidentially and in accordance with data protection legislation. We will not publish data that makes it possible to identify respondents. Rambøll AS assists NOKUT in the implementation and distribution of the survey. They have access to e-mail addresses and telephone numbers until the survey closes. NOKUT cooperates with the colleges and universities. The institutions get access to your response data, but not personally identifiable information, such as your email address, gender or age. 

The institutions provide NOKUT with background data on all students, based on a legal commitment The information is used in attrition analyses, conducted on the basis of public interest. This includes non-respondents. The analyses assess whether the results are representative of the population, a key prerequisite for interpreting the results. You may opt out of having your information used for this purpose by sending an e-mail to res-studiebarometeret@nokut.no. In attrition analyses we only use the following information: gender, age, registered municipality, and grade point average. For students who do not respond to the survey, these data will be deleted by 15 February 2025, while other personal data will be deleted by 1 December 2024.

Studiebarometeret will be transfered to HK-dir on 1 January 2025
From 1 January 2025, the Norwegian Agency for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir) will take over the responsibility for Studiebarometeret from NOKUT. This means that all data from this project will be transferred to HK-dir from the same date. This also applies to personal data if you consent to this at the end of the questionnaire.

What will happen to your personal data at the end of the project?

Directly identifiable data (contact information) will be deleted by NOKUT by February 15th 2025 at the latest. Indirectly identifiable data will be paired with your survey answers, and will be stored by NOKUT until 2029 and by Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research until 2034 for analysis- and research purposes. This requires your explicit consent at the end of the questionnaire. If you do not consent to having your data paired, your indirectly identifiable data will also be deleted by February 15th 2025 at the latest.

The legal basis for NOKUT's processing of  your personal information
Your consent forms the legal basis for NOKUT to process the results from the survey, pair them with background information from the universities' and university colleges' internal systems, and for the subsequent storage of indirectly personally identifiable information (PII) after project completion. Sikt has determined, at NOKUT's request, that the data processing is in accordance with privacy protection legislation..

Where can you find out more?

If you have questions about the study, please contact:

Your rights

As long as you can be identified in the collected data, you have the right to:

  • access the personal data about you that is being processed
  • request that your personal data be deleted
  • request that incorrect personal data about you is corrected/rectified
  • receive a copy of your personal data (data portability), and send a complaint to the Data Protection Officer or The Norwegian Data Protection Authority regarding the processing of your personal data.

 Yours sincerely,

NOKUT (Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education)