Survey example: Student survey about academic advising

This is an example of an AI survey about student academic advising. If you're exploring effective ways to collect meaningful feedback, see and try the example now.

Creating student academic advising surveys that actually capture honest, useful feedback is a surprisingly tough challenge. Vague responses, low completion rates, and tedious survey building can leave you with more frustration than insight.

Specific specializes in conversational AI surveys. Every example you see here is powered by Specific, giving you a best-in-class survey experience.

What is a conversational survey and why AI makes it better for students

Let’s face it: most student surveys about academic advising never get real engagement. Too often, we send out static forms with generic questions, only to get quick, unhelpful answers—or nothing at all. That’s the core problem we solve with AI-powered conversational surveys.

Conversational surveys feel like chatting with a real person, adapting to each response and keeping things relevant. Instead of one-size-fits-all, AI tailors the survey flow in real time, making the student feel understood and valued. That boost in connection is a game-changer: AI-powered surveys reach completion rates of 70%–90%, compared to just 10%–30% for traditional surveys [1]. That’s because AI adapts, follows up, and keeps questions pertinent to each student’s actual experience.

Traditional, manual surveys require you to anticipate every path, script endless logic, and still risk losing half your audience before they finish. With AI, the survey becomes a dynamic, living conversation—built and improved in a fraction of the time.

Why use AI for student surveys?

• Faster survey creation: AI can craft dozens of targeted questions in minutes, while humans might take hours [3].

• Personalized experience: The survey flexes to the student’s needs, skipping irrelevant topics and zooming in where it matters.

• Better insights: Open-ended answers are followed up and clarified automatically, boosting data quality from the start.

• Feels like chat: Students are comfortable and familiar with conversational interfaces—completion rates soar.

We built the Specific survey engine expressly for this: to make it easy for you to get honest feedback from students, while they experience a frictionless, engaging conversation. If you’re interested in structuring your questions effectively, check out our deep-dive on the best questions for student surveys about academic advising.

Automatic follow-up questions based on previous reply

Specific’s AI surveys stand out for their ability to ask smart, context-aware follow-up questions—instantly, like an expert interviewer. If a student gives a vague or incomplete answer, the AI probes deeper, uncovers motivations, and clears up ambiguities. This results in far richer insights, without the endless back-and-forth of email or in-person clarification.

Here’s how it plays out in the real world:

• Student: "My advisor was helpful."

• AI follow-up: "Can you share a specific example of how your advisor helped you during your academic planning?"

• Student: "It was okay overall."

• AI follow-up: "What could have made your academic advising experience better for you?"

Without these follow-ups, you’d end up with answers too general to act on. With Specific, the survey feels alive—each reply shapes the conversation, so respondents feel genuinely listened to. If you want to see how this works in action, learn more about automatic AI follow-up questions, or just try generating your own survey right now.

Follow-up questions are what make a conversational survey truly conversational, turning static forms into a lively, two-way exchange.

Easy editing, like magic

Editing and refining your student academic advising survey is incredibly simple with Specific. You just chat with the AI survey editor, describing what changes you need in plain language—and the system updates your survey instantly, with all the right logic and expert guidance built in. Instead of wrestling with complex forms or rebuilding your survey from scratch, you save hours: everything is done for you in seconds. See how the AI survey editor reshapes how you work with surveys.

Survey delivery: landing page and in-product

The flexibility of Specific means you can reach students where they are—whether that’s inside your university portal or via direct sharing. For academic advising surveys, both delivery options make a real impact:

• Sharable landing page surveys: Perfect for email distribution, student group chats, or even QR codes at events. Just send the link, and students complete the survey right on a dedicated page—no login or setup required.

• In-product surveys: Embed the conversation directly into your student platform or advising app. This is ideal if you want to target students when they log in to check their academic schedule or interact with advising resources.

Landing page surveys are often fastest to deploy for general student feedback. In-product surveys shine when you want context-aware, just-in-time feedback—say, after a student completes an advising appointment. Choose the method that fits how your students interact.

AI-powered analysis: instant student advising insights

Analyzing survey responses with AI is a revelation: Specific’s platform instantly summarizes every student’s feedback, highlights key themes, and extracts clear next steps for your advising program. No more slogging through spreadsheets or sorting through endless free text—just actionable, automated survey insights. You can chat directly with the AI to drill down into specifics, apply automatic topic detection, and gain a new level of clarity. See our guide on how to analyze student academic advising survey responses with AI for a step-by-step walkthrough.

With features like AI survey analysis and automated survey insights, you’ll spend less time wrangling data and more time helping students succeed.

See this academic advising survey example now

Don’t miss your chance to experience AI-driven, conversational surveys built for students: see the academic advising survey example to engage your students better, uncover actionable insights, and revolutionize how you collect feedback.