The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is your chance to shape the future of taught postgraduate education at King’s. Open from 7 April until 12 June 2026 for eligible students, the survey takes around 10 minutes to complete and gives you the opportunity to share your honest feedback on your Master’s, Postgraduate Diploma, or Postgraduate Certificate experience.

Your insights will help improve teaching, assessment, support services, and community initiatives for current and future postgraduate students.

If you complete the survey and choose to enter the prize draw, you could win one of 25 free graduation packages which include free tickets for you and your guests, free gown hire, and free professional photography!

Keep reading for more details about the survey and why it’s important, your eligibility, and the incentives on offer. Click the link below to take the survey.

What is the PTES?

The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is the only UK-wide survey dedicated to capturing the voice of taught postgraduate students. Conducted in partnership with AdvanceHE, PTES gathers vital feedback about your learning experience, motivations, and even your dissertation or major project (where applicable). Whether you’re studying on campus or via distance learning, your opinion matters.

Why does the PTES matter?  

PTES matters because your voice has real impact. King’s has made significant improvements in response to previous feedback from PTES, including:

• Improving your assessment experience, by scrapping the cap on late coursework submissions, updating our mitigating circumstances policy, and adding a grace period for online exam submissions.
• Supporting your studies, through our academic skills support sessions, free Generative AI in Higher Education course and Essential Digital Skills programme.
• Prioritising your wellbeing, by investing in our counselling, mental health and disability teams to reduce wait times, offering Take Time Out Tuesdays and Thursdays, and offering 'Relaxed Graduations' for those who prefer a less busy setting.
• Enhancing your sense of community, by updating our Community Charter, offering free Community Breakfasts and Community Fridge, and by introducing a film club and arts club.
• Supporting your career journey, through our careers fairs, home and international events, our King's Edge programme, our expanding range of technologies including Graduates First, Shortlist.me, Student Circus, and through digital degree certificates which verify your credentials with employers.
• Celebrating and supporting our diversity, through our Welcome Ceremonies, and by streamlining our King's Inclusion Plan and Personalised Assessment Arrangements processes.
• Improving our campuses and campus safety, by maximising our study spaces, improving campus signage, introducing our SafeZone app, Report and Support, training to prevent and address bullying and harassment, creating a women's only gym and extending opening times during Ramadan.

You can read more on our website about how King’s is using student feedback to improve and enhance the experience of our students.

Are you eligible?

To be eligible, you must:

• be studying a postgraduate taught course worth at least 60 credits, such as PG Cert, PG Dip, or Master’s
• have started your course before 1 January 2026
• be actively enrolled for the 2025-26 academic year, or have completed your course during the 2025-26 academic year
• be in your final year of study, where applicable
• be on track to complete your award by 1 April 2027

For students on programmes billed by module (ie. 100% online courses), this is assessed based on the credits completed so far and, in most cases, means having completed at least half of the credits required for your qualification.

How to complete the survey

All eligible students will receive an email from Professor Shitij Kapur, Vice-Chancellor & President, with a personalised survey link. You’ll receive periodic reminder emails and encouragement from King's until you complete it or the survey closes.

Alternatively, visit the login page and enter the following personal details:

Respondent ID = student k number (eg. k12345678) - the 'k' must be lower case

Password = date of birth (eg. DDMMYY)

Win a Free Graduation Package

If you complete the survey and enter our prize draw, you could win one of 25 free graduation packages, which includes:

• Free guest tickets
• Free gown hire
• Free professional photography

You must enter the prize draw before the survey closes at 11.59pm on Friday 12 June. Please check our Terms & Conditions before entering.

Winners will be announced on Wednesday 1 July 2026.

Got questions?

If you have any questions about the PTES, please contact us at studentsurveys@kcl.ac.uk for more information.

Take the PTES. Share your experience. Shape the future.