Course quality

Every student at USI is entitled to express views on the quality of courses. The main opportunity to do so, for the core courses offered by the various Faculties, is the course feedback survey conducted towards the end of each semester, in accordance with the procedures set out in the document System and Results of the Quality Assurance Service.

Each semester, towards the end of the teaching period, every student will be asked to complete a feedback questionnaire on each course they have attended. The questionnaire is anonymous and allows the student to express his/her views on the course content, organisation, materials and teaching, and to suggest ways in which the course could be improved.

The results are collected and processed by the USI Quality Assurance Service, and are then – strictly after the exams and once the grades have been officially recorded – forwarded in summarised form to individual faculty and lecturers, as well as to the Rector, Deans and directors of programs. 
The page Quality of courses in figures provides a general overview of the questionnaire’s structure, response rates and students’ overall satisfaction with teachers and teaching assistants.

In addition to the end-of-course survey, students arer warranted the right and opportunity to comment on the quality of a course by approaching the person or body responsible for their programme of studies, or by writing directly to the Quality Assurance Service.