Key findings from the 2024 Higher Education Student Statistics
The proportion of domestic commencing undergraduates who are school leavers is the highest it has been in a decade. The increase is in part driven by the decline of commencing mature aged students …
Australian uni enrolments have declined. But is
Aug 28, 2025 · Between 2017 and 2023, the number of recent school leavers aged 19 or less starting a bachelor degree fell by 4%. But the drop was 18% for people aged 20–24 years and 27% for those …
Record Enrolments, but Gaps Persist - futurecampus.com.au
Sep 26, 2025 · The proportion of school leavers in undergraduate commencements rose sharply by 5% to 48% over the three years to 2024, driven by a decline in mature age commencements.
School leavers enrolled in higher education - Phidu
South Australian data represent the number of school leavers that have received and accepted an offer to a university in South Australia and the Northern Territory; however, this is not necessarily …
School leavers shun uni, enrolments hit near-decade low
Jan 1, 2024 · The number of first-year university students fell by a hefty 8.2 per cent in 2022 to the lowest level in nine years, as more young people took advantage of post-pandemic freedoms to do …
Australian university enrolment aspirations ‘don’t stack up’
Dec 23, 2024 · While recent figures suggest that the number of people leaving school with Australian Tertiary Admission Ranks (ATARs) rose almost 4 per cent this year, this was primarily because of a …
Why university enrolments hit a near-decade low - HEX
For the first time since the 1950s, first-year university enrollments went backwards, according to an article by Education Editor, Julie Hare, in The Australian Financial Review yesterday.