Postsecondary Students on Stress, Success, and School

This year’s Academica Wellness Survey revealed the sources of stress among postsecondary students and how they are coping using their institutions’ available resources.  

From buying new textbooks at the campus store to scouring the internet for affordable accommodation to late-night-study sessions for the first big exam, the postsecondary experience is flush with exciting new possibilities. Still, it can also be a significant source of stress.

We wanted to understand the causes of student stress better and determine how these learners manage their well-being in postsecondary life. So, who better to ask than the students themselves?

For this year’s Wellness Survey, we spoke to 1,079 members of our StudentVu panel—including 857 current postsecondary students and 222 high school students—about their perspective on wellness in postsecondary education and postsecondary institutions' role in student well-being.

This is what postsecondary students had to say.