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Abstract

Engaging students in university settings is crucial for enhancing their learningexperiences, fostering deeper understanding, critical thinking and academic success.Universities worldwide implement various strategies to enhance student engagement,focusing on both in-class and out-of-class experiences to foster a holistic educationalenvironment. Student engagement is often measured through surveys such as NSSE,FSSE, AUSSE, SASSE, and UKES. Despite the emphasis on student engagement as acritical determinant of academic success, there is a significant gap in understandinghow engagement strategies vary across these global surveys. This lack of comparativeresearch limits educational institutions' ability to adopt best practices from diversecontexts and hinders the development of globally effective students' engagementstrategies. This qualitative research, therefore, explores global student engagementstrategies using a comparative thematic analysis of NSSE, FSSE, AUSSE, SASSE, andUKES. The study involved analyzing publicly available documents from these surveysused in universities across six countries. Thematic and cross-case analyses wereemployed to identify commonalities and differences in engagement practices. Findingsrevealed common themes across the five surveys include: academic challenge, learningwith peers, experiences with faculty/staff, and campus environment.