This booklet presents an overview of the findings of the national survey on Student Living Conditions for 2023, the 10th edition of this survey. These data were collected by OVE between 13 March and 21 May 2023.

The Student Living Conditions survey was first carried out in 1994, and is conducted every three years, to gather and analyse a body of information pertaining to various aspects of students’ lives. The survey is conducted by on-line questionnaire. To ensure that the survey is scientifically valid, the questionnaire is addressed to a panel of randomly selected students enrolled in France.

Over 260 000 students were invited to fill out the questionnaire for the OVE survey in 2023. Of this group, some 80 000 students completed the survey questionnaire, for a raw response rate of 31%. The findings summarized here draw upon a sample of 49 523 fully completed questionnaires.

To constitute a comprehensive body of knowledge on student life the survey of living conditions is composed of a recurring set of questions (since the first survey in 1994) and new queries that reflect current issues in society. The 2023 survey introduces new questions pertaining to the conditions under which higher education can be completed, to economic circumstances and hardship, and to housing. The OVE survey is closely linked to the Eurostudent VIII programme that compares student life across 26 countries in Europe, and reveals specific characteristics of student life in France.