Surveys

Our office provides information about student attitudes and behaviors including time use, academic engagement and community involvement. It assesses attitudes towards many different aspects of campus life including academic advising, campus climate, courses and instruction, and interaction with faculty. It documents students' self-perceptions and goals, political beliefs, and perceptions of the role of the university. It also collects background demographic information, such as first language, family immigration background and social class.

Student Surveys

Graduating Student Survey Dashboard​ (coming soon)
Alumni Employment Survey Dashboard​ (coming soon)
NSSE Dashboard​ (coming soon)
BCSSE Dashboard​ (coming soon)

The California State University, Bakersfield Graduate Student Experience Survey (CSUBGSES) is a survey that solicits graduate students’ opinions on a broad range of academic and co-curricular experiences, including availability of courses and other student services.

CSUB’s Center for Career Education and Community Engagement office sponsors an annual alumni employment survey to measure students’ employment status after graduating with a bachelor’s degree.

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) collects information from first-year and senior students about the characteristics and quality of their CSUB undergraduate experience. Survey questions measure the extent to which students engage in effective educational practices that are empirically linked with learning, personal development, and other desired outcomes such as persistence, satisfaction, and graduation. For more information about NSSE, please visit the NSSE website.

Overview of most recent results (NSSE 2022 Reports)

Snapshot of CSUB Results (PDF)
This report is a concise collection of key findings.

CSUB Pocket Guide to Choosing a College (PDF)
This report presents a summary of student engagement at CSUB. Useful resource for Prospective Students and families with insight into how they might learn and develop at a given college.

Multi-Year Report (PDF)
To illustrate patterns of change and stability, this report presents Year-to-Year results for Engagement indicators (EIs), High Impact Practices (HIPs) and key academic challenge items.

Topical Module
First-Year Experiences & Senior Transitions (PDF)
Inclusiveness and Engagement with Diversity (PDF)

Supporting Documents

Administration Summary (PDF)
This report provides details about the population and sample, response rates, representatives of the respondents, survey customization choices, and recruitment method.

Selected Comparison Groups (PDF)
Information about comparison groups.

Respondent Profile (PDF)
Demographic information about respondents.

View reports from past NSSE administrations

The Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE) survey collects data about entering college students’ high school academic and co-curricular experiences, as well as their expectations for participating in educationally purposeful activities during the first college year. Specifically, the survey assesses:

  1. the time and effort entering, first-year students devoted to educationally purposeful activities in high school and expect to devote to during their first year of college, and
  2. what these entering first-year students expect their institutions to provide them regarding opportunities and emphasis.

The survey questions cluster around a range of college activities related to academic engagement, learning, and academic success. BCSSE administration usually takes place prior to the start of fall classes.

BCSSE 2019: First-Year Student Institutional Report (PDF)
This report communicates the activities and experiences each student expects from his or her college experience. Reviewing these results with students can help focus advising discussions about activities that enhance students’ undergraduate experience.

BCSSE 2019: Transfer Student Institutional Report (PDF)
This report provides aggregate mean scores for each variable for Transfer Student respondents at the California State University, Bakersfield.

BCSSE 2019: NSSE 2020 Combined Report (PDF)
This report contains a summary of administration details, cross-sectional and longitudinal results from CSUB’s BCSSE 2019 and NSSE 2020 administrations, and participating institutions.

Faculty Surveys

Faculty Leadership Academy Dashboard
Faculty Leadership Academy program is based on the conviction that individuals are well positioned to create systemic and cultural change when they are provided with a broad array of tools, methodologies, and experiences. It is a leadership development program intended for faculty members who are interested in developing skills and knowledge for leadership on the CSUB campus.  The program emphasizes collaborative and result-oriented skills and includes opportunities to interact with various senior leaders on campus. The cohort each year has six sessions during the academic year, focused on leadership basics, conflict resolution, data literacy as well as improving equity and inclusion. One of the sessions focuses on developing data-informed faculty leaders.