Universities

OpinionPanel is the owner and manager of the UK's largest research panel of higher education consumers (applicants, students, graduates). We have helped over 80 universities as well as HE policy bodies, HE finance organisations and Mission Groups. Our ad hoc projects have covered topics as diverse as course development, bursary and scholarship provision, tuition fees, the decision-making process of sixth formers (longitudinal study), academic contact time, student satisfaction, accommodation needs and corporate branding and benchmarking.

We can help you:

Benchmark your institution
Target students by institution (all HEIs in the UK) or subject (to JACS Principal Code)
Supplement your own in-house surveys with difficult-to-reach samples
Script, host, analyse and report on surveys we run for you
Apply the highest levels of quality control
Build your own panels.

Please get in touch to discuss your research questions.

Higher Expectations

Co-developed with The Knowledge Partnership, Higher Expectations is aimed at university marketing, planning and admissions departments. Based on 12,000 interviews per year for the last six years, it provides access to full competitive benchmarking data, year-on-year trends, key performance indicators, a segmentation analysis and our unique Word of Mouth Search Engine which allows subscribers to zoom in on over 300,000 comments from students, praising and criticising the universities they accepted and rejected.

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Ad hoc research projects

We have experience in many topics and approaches including course development, bursary and scholarship provision, accommodation needs and corporate branding. Call us to discuss your needs.

COMPARe

Are you developing a new course? Reviewing a portfolio of courses? COMPARe (Course Optimization for Marketing, Portfolio Assessment and Review) can help. Using COMPARe can help ensure you're attracting the right students.

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How much more will students pay?

With the lifting of the cap on tuition fees increasingly likely, it is critical that those involved in Higher Education understand the potential impact of uncapped fees. How much might students be willing to pay and would it vary by type of student, institution and degree? These questions are addressed in our new report with higher-education economist, Professor Anna Vignoles (Institute of Education). Based on a quantitative survey of 37,000 new first year undergraduates over three years, the report cuts through the current political debate and provides essential evidence for all university planners.