WUSCA 2022

The Whatuni Student Choice Awards (WUSCA) is an annual event held in London to celebrate the hard work of universities, further education, and independent higher education providers in the United Kingdom. Each year, our review collectors collate approximately 41,000 reviews both on campuses across the country and online using the whatuni.com website.

The Whatuni Student Choice Awards are the pinnacle in the Higher Education awards season and are notable because students pick our winners.

Our reviews come from over 150 further and higher education institutions in the UK meaning that nearly all the tertiary education sector leadership and marketing teams have their eyes pinned on the outcomes of the Whatuni Student Choice Awards.

The results and the findings are central to our Whatuni brand – giving students honest, unbiased data to make the right choices about their future.

The student voice is ready to speak again. And in 2022, the results will be once again delivered face-to-face at our awards ceremony in Central London.

Review collection is now underway for 2022

If you’d like to get in touch with the Whatuni team about a potential on-campus review collection, please email Kieran Hill at kieran.hill@idp.com.

Our new review form is now live, so please do encourage your students to review your institution at https://www.whatuni.com/reviews/.

This year, we have refined the categories in the Whatuni Student Choice Awards. Many of the categories will be awarded on a national and regional basis to allow students to make better, more informed decisions as they refine their education choices.

All categories will be based purely on student reviews making the WUSCA the only awards to be based exclusively on the student voice.

After the success of the submission category in 2020 and 2021, one category will be a submission award and will be evaluated by a student panel selected by the Whatuni team.

The theme of this will be published soon with submission guidelines.

We are hosting the Whatuni Student Choice Awards on Tuesday 24 May 2022 at the East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf in London.

WUSCA 2022 will see the return of the Whatuni Student Bursaries programme, enabling institutions to showcase their most impactful work - the winner of which will be given the opportunity to reward 5 of their widening participation students with £10,000 worth of bursaries (£2000 per student)

Shortlist announcement

Once the review collection is completed in late March 2022, we’ll compile the results and publish a shortlist between late April and early May 2022.

Terms and Conditions

Full terms and conditions and additional information about the 2022 Whatuni Student Choice Awards will be published soon.

The student voice has spoken yet again for the 2021 Whatuni Student Choice Awards. We are delighted to share the 2021 winners across four submissions-based categories.   This year's awards will only have one submission based award, reverting back to rely on the student voice solely for the majority of the categories.

The 2021 WUSCA winners were:   

• Excellence in Digital Innovation: University of Chester

   

• Diversity and Inclusion: Leeds Trinity University

   

• Enhanced Graduate Outcomes: Norland

   

• Student Support: UCEN Manchester