Happiness In University Education **Acknowledgements:We are grateful to students at the University of Western Australia for participating in the survey upon which this paper is based, and to two anonymous referees for many helpful comments. Miller acknowledges financial assistance from the Australian Research Council. Opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors, and should not be attributed to the funding agency or to the University of Western Australia.

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