Hopwood Hall College ranked highest in Greater Manchester in National Student Survey

Hopwood Hall Rochdale Campus

Hopwood Hall College has been ranked the highest in Greater Manchester, with a score of 92%, in the HEFCE 2017 National Student Survey.

Students ranked their satisfaction based on the quality of their courses, standard of teaching and student engagement.

In Greater Manchester, Hopwood Hall College ranked the highest with a score of 92%, with Tameside College coming bottom after a 61% satisfaction rating.

Greater Manchester college satisfaction ratings:

• Hopwood Hall College: 92%
• Bolton College: 87%
• Bury College: 84%
• The Oldham College: 83%
• Stockport College: 81%
• Wigan and Leigh College: 78%
• Trafford College: 76%
• Salford City College: 64%
• Tameside College: 61%

Three of Greater Manchester’s universities were also surveyed; The University of Bolton earned a 85% satisfaction rating, The University of Salford 84% and Manchester Metropolitan University 83%. In total the 2017 survey covered 530 universities and colleges.

Hopwood Hall College Assistant Principal, Julia Heap, expressed her own satisfaction in coming top of the Greater Manchester colleges, she said: “I speak for everyone at the college when I say we are very proud of the survey’s findings.

"Our students are the focal point of everything we do and to know that they are leaving us with such a high level of satisfaction, that is a really positive result.

“The task now has to be to continue improving our college experience to give that 8% a better time than they feel they had.

“With the investment we are putting into facilities at both campuses this year, including a new state of the art 4g AstroTurf at the Middleton campus, I am confident we’ll be able to make significant inroads.”