When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, universities all over the world had to close down their campuses and move all education online in just a matter of days [1]. At KTH, where a vast majority of the education typically takes place on campus, this caused a very rapid change. In this study, we wanted to evaluate how the students had experienced their education and surveyed students enrolled in year 1-3 of the 5 year computer science and engineering programme, and in both years of the master of science program in computer science.

The surveys were distributed in May 2020, as part of a mandatory assignment in the program integrating courses in the respective programmes [2]. It was mandatory for the students to fill out the survey, but the students were not graded on their responses. We got responses from almost all active students, altogether 794 respondents (139, 173, 148, 166, 168, for each grade respectively). We asked the students to compare the typical campus education before the pandemic, with the spring semester's digital education, on a number of aspects, such as stress, procrastination, motivation, and their experienced possibility to fulfill the learning outcomes. We also specifically asked the students to compare the quality of different course activities, such as lectures, tutorials, and computer labs. All of these questions were asked on a 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1= Distance education is considerably better, to 7= Campus education is considerably better, and with 4 being a neutral value. In addition, we also asked the students to name the main advantages and disadvantages of this new education format, in two open-ended questions.