National Student Survey (NSS) results released this month reveal that Kent Law School has one of the highest student satisfaction rates in the UK.
With just over 93% of final year undergraduate law students reporting overall satisfaction with their course at Kent, the Law School is ranked 15th out of 98 institutions teaching law.
The NSS is an independent annual survey, giving final year undergraduate students an opportunity to provide feedback on their academic experience at university. Kent Law School was ranked within the top 20% of institutions for teaching, learning opportunities and overall satisfaction (and was ranked amongst the top 50% in all nine areas of the student experience addressed by the survey).
Kent Law School scored particularly well in respect of its teaching quality with 95% of students agreeing that staff are good at explaining things and 94% reporting that they found the teaching intellectually stimulating. In a further endorsement of Kent’s distinctive critical approach to teaching, 93% of students said the course has provided them with opportunities to explore ideas or concepts in depth.
The Law School’s critical approach to teaching places law in the wider context of society. In addition to a full and thorough grounding in the detail of law, students are taught to think about the history and development of the law, and the moral and ethical considerations which shape its development. A critical legal education also involves politics, philosophy, sociology and culture; it gets students thinking critically about different kinds of legal system, about power, and about who benefits and loses from different decisions.
Kent Law School is one of the leading law schools in the UK; ranked 14th in the Times Good University Guide 2017, 15th in The Guardian University Guide 2018 and 19th in the Complete University Guide 2018. Kent Law School is also ranked amongst the top 100 law schools in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017 (and is one of only 14 UK law schools that made the top 100 in this global list of 300 institutions.)
Earlier this year, the University was also recognised for the quality of its teaching; Kent was awarded gold, the highest rating, in the UK Government’s Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Based on the evidence available, the TEF Panel judged that the University of Kent delivers consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for its students. It is of the highest quality found in the UK.