On the Nippising vs. Western bit:
Canadian Undergraduate Survey Consortium does put Nippising's students as most satisfied. But while this is a survey completed by many schools, it's far from all and Western is one that didn't participate.
But then I noticed, Nippising and Trent are really tied with the number of Strongly agrees but Trent has 2% more agrees. I hope the ordering between those two is because Nippising slightly edged out Trent at the .1% type level and not because they sorted by strongly agrees then alphabetical (rather than strongly agrees then agrees). Even then, I'd say they are effectively tied..
NSSE includes more schools. Both Western and Nippising are generally above average on the question of "If you could start over would you go to the institution you are now attending". Western edges out Nippising though, although it's interesting to see the difference in opinions between first and senior year, particularly if you look at Western's colleges which do so so in first year and are tops in the senior year, while Western and Nippising are both very high in first year and more average in senior year.
I don't see results from the survey of recent graduates that Maclean's did a couple times. They must have stopped doing that after they forced the universities to make the results on these surveys public.
With regards to Queen's, it appears their first years are very satisfied but their upper years are only in the top quarter or so.
Now, after all that, don't get me started on statistical significance and it's flaws and how we really don't know if there's a real difference there (Graduate courses are fun).
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