Original structured research, ongoing first-party audience polling and transparent student insight from Unifresher. Built to make the student voice useful to students, journalists, researchers, universities and organisations trying to understand student life.
The Unifresher Student Experience Survey brings 15 questions into one research report so money, housing, wellbeing, work, careers and university choice can be understood together.
81% say using AI on a university assignment is cheating. 76% experienced at least one named housing issue. 70% are working part-time or looking for work. Only 13% say tuition fees definitely represent good value.
We keep structured surveys and quick audience polls separate because they answer different questions and support different levels of interpretation.
Planned questionnaires with defined samples, fieldwork, question-level evidence, open-text analysis and deeper cross-question interpretation.
Quick questions put directly to the Unifresher audience, published with exact response totals, collection dates and clear indicative-evidence labels.
Our first-party audience polling gives us a faster read on student attitudes between larger research projects. The two newest results are featured first, followed by the rest of the live poll archive.
Cheaper on-campus food was the most selected answer, ahead of mental health support, better quality teaching and career guidance.
View the full poll resultThe largest group said none and that they cancel everything they can. Spotify or Apple Music was the most selected named subscription.
View the full poll result40% said they felt fairly confident about their career prospects.
View pollPrice and affordability was the most selected factor.
View pollA third said they rarely eat out or get takeaway because they cook everything.
View pollWorkload was the most selected worry.
View pollMost said they begin looking six or more months ahead.
View pollScrapping tuition fees was the most selected change.
View pollInstagram and TikTok dominated the responses.
View pollRent being higher than expected was the most selected answer.
View pollLoneliness was the most selected answer in the 250-response poll.
View pollOur current research covers the questions students face before, during and after university.
Pre-university financial worries, tuition value, part-time work and the steps students take to afford university life.
Housing problems, value, housemates, Wi-Fi, property condition, landlords and contracts.
Work-life-social balance, loneliness, mental health support and pressure to fit in.
Part-time employment and confidence about securing graduate work.
Location, rankings, teaching, cost, social life, graduate prospects and whether students would choose the same institution again.
How students think about AI use on assignments and whether academic-integrity attitudes translate into reporting behaviour.
Every published result is designed to show where the figure came from, how it was calculated and what it can reasonably support.
We retain the question and answer format behind the statistic.
Counts and bases sit close to the finding rather than being hidden in a footnote.
Indicative polling, open-text coding, weighting decisions and descriptive associations are labelled clearly.
