Are College Students Getting

Too Much Sleep or Not Enough?

By: Emily Gancy, Sarah Mogytych, and Chi Yong

EDT 180D Spring 2018

Our Survey

1. How old are you?

2. Gender?
3. What college are you enrolled in?
4. How much on average do you sleep at night?
5. How frequently during the week do you nap?
6. How long do you nap?
7. How many credits are you currently enrolled in?
8. What is your GPA?

We had 153 responses of data collected.

Gender and Age
College and Credit Hours
GPA and Hours Slept at Night
Frequency of Naps and Duration of Naps
Analysis - Hours Slept with GPA 3.5+

Of all the students with a GPA

of 3.5 or above, 28 of those
students slept 8 hours or
more while 39 slept less than
8 hours. This suggests that
students with high GPAs sleep
less.
Analysis - Hours slept with 16+ credit
hours

Here we sectioned off those

students with 16 or more
credit hours - as those are
students with a full workload
or more. We found that it is
more likely for these students
to have less than 8 hours of
sleep at night.
Analysis - Sleep Under 8 hours Napping

Of those students who sleep

less than 8 hours a night, ⅔ of
them take naps during the
day. This shows that while you
may be sleeping less at night
to study, you are more likely
going to need to take time out
of the day to catch up on
sleep.
Conclusions

Whether one takes more credits or has a higher GPA (due to assumed
time studying and doing school work), it is more likely that one would
sleep less than 8 hours a night. If someone sleeps less than 8 hours a
night, it is more likely that that person naps during the day. Not
getting enough sleep at night.

Is losing sleep at night for a higher GPA or greater workload worth it if

you have to sleep during the day as well?

Is is better to get a full night sleep in one sitting or does the data show
higher GPAs for those who break up their sleeping schedule?