Since 2006 (with the exception of 2013), the "Student Academic Experience Survey" has been designed and developed in partnership between the Higher Education Policy Institute and the Higher Education Academy (HEPI-HEA). The Survey has become one of the major surveys within the UK higher education landscape, providing insight into how students at UK institutions appraise their time at university to date and influencing policy and debate. For the 2017 Survey there are a number of questions that enable the authors to track some of the issues discussed in previous years, such as value for money, wellbeing and teaching quality. Alongside these longer-running questions, the authors have added new questions addressing some of the key issues in the sector, such as how much students learn, the different ways in which contact hours are delivered, and the extent to which students value learning alongside students from outside the UK. This year's results are challenging, showing that students have: (1) falling perceptions of value for money; (2) continued to display relatively low wellbeing compared to the rest of the population; and (3) have yet to love England's high-fees model of funding undergraduate education. As a result of more extensive analysis of the data than in earlier years, the authors are able to show that the results differ notably by subject, ethnicity, financial status, sexual orientation and accommodation type. [For the 2016 survey, see ED603566.]