Participation in the NSHS is easy, and basic participation is free to all institutions. We setup and host the survey for you, and provide marketing materials and advice on how to effectively publicise it to your students. Once data collection is complete we'll do all the analysis and send your reports. We even provide a national prize draw incentive.

We can add tailored questions into the core question set, eradicating the need for you to also carry out costly internal surveys. Not only do you save thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours of work, but you also gain all the benefits of professional research conducted at a national level.

In addition to your own institution-specific reports, you'll also receive copies of national reports, analysis and infographics, delivering a holistic profile of the student housing market. The survey examines all types of student accommodation, from private and university halls to private rentals and owned homes allowing you to understand changing market trends across the sector.

The survey takes a comprehensive look at all aspects of the student accommodation experience, from the search process right through to reasons for leaving, and everything in-between. The question set has matured and stabilised over the last few years to allow participants to track their relative performance over time and measure the impact of changes to the local accommodation landscape.

By participating in a national survey, you'll have the option of benchmarking your results against any group of institutions you define, or against regional, national or mission-group results. This can help you to really understand your performance in context and identify specific strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement.

The NSHS has been carefully designed to provide a compelling and interactive experience for your students. The question set includes sophisticated routing to ensure that individual students are kept engaged and are only asked questions relevant to them. Once the survey goes live our admin system allows you to monitor the number of responses in real-time and adjust your promotional activity accordingly.

The NSHS recognises excellence; each year a number of awards are made to organisations receiving outstanding student feedback across a range of criteria. If you win an award you'll receive a logo to display on your website and marketing materials. In addition to the awards, we also issue our coveted International Accommodation Quality Mark to organisations demonstrating outstanding levels of satisfaction among international students.