College magazine questionnaire analysis

After creating a suitable questionnaire that would give me an advantage to designing an ideal college magazine cover for students, I analysed 20 questionnaire’s that were filled in by students from East Norfolk College and came to a conclusion. 

The first question asked was designed to help me understand what gender the college magazine will predominantly be directed at. 55% of the students who filled in my questionnaire were female, and 45% were male. Considering the percentage is almost 50/50, I will design my front cover to suit both genders.

For the second question, I asked the students whether they would accept paying for a college magazine. 70% of the people asked rejected the offer and said they didn’t think it was worth it. I feel that because of this, it would be more suitable to hand out the college magazine for free. I think this idea would be ideal so that more people will have access to the magazine and the information within the magazine will be read.

Due to more people confirming that they definitely would not want to purchase a college magazine, I asked the students what would encourage them into buying one. From this question, I collected a range of ideas such as free stuff, music and college information.

For the next question, I was interested to see how many students read their college emails. Fortunately, 80% of the students asked said that they do. This means that the college magazine can be promoted via students emails, making it likely that they will read the information provided and acknowledge the magazine.

50% of students said they would prefer the magazine to be published each month. This makes publishing the magazine a lot simpler and gives the college time to produce the magazines.

The seventh question was asking whether students would be interested in contributing towards the magazine. Despite the small amount of students, 25%, accepting to provide help for the publisher, it is still promising that the college magazine will gain ideas from different people.

The kind of information that people suggested would be ideal for the college magazine included music, trips, sports, events and gossip. All of this information was mentioned by more than one student, making it promising that it will be attractive to many students.

Additionally, for the front cover, suggestions such as bright colours and images of students holding college related objects taken by media students were said to be most effective.

Lastly, when asked, 100% of students noted that they do not read the current college magazine. This tells me that the magazine is not reaching the correct target audience and the product is not working. To create the ideal college magazine, I will take all of the above information into account.