This paper focuses on the understanding of experience marketing in a higher education context and also on its implications on students' loyalty. Therefore, the article explores the most significant determinants of students' experience, such teaching process, administrative service, courses content, library, accommodation, eating spaces and medical services, university's space and campus's facilities, university's reputation and the provided career prospects. The research aims to outline the importance of analysing students' experience in the increasingly competitive market of educational services and also to provide a sustainable basis for the Romanian higher education improvement. In its last section, the objective of the research is to measure the student's loyalty towards the university and also the experience's impact on their loyalty. The originality of this study consist in the authors attempt to design a student's total experience survey, this paper being between the first ones analysing this topic in Romania.