- A shrinking future: declining local enrolments. . . - Future Campus
Higher education enrolment data for 2022 in Australia showed a 3 2% decline in commencing domestic students, the primary source for higher education, dropping from 1,602,573 in 2021 to 1,555,411 in 2022 The decline is particularly significant among undergraduate students, showing an 8 2% decrease
- Key findings from the 2024 Higher Education Student Statistics
After a period of decline following the unusually high enrolments of 2021, in 2024 domestic enrolments have returned to growth
- When studying is so expensive, its no surprise that disadvantaged . . .
From 2019 to 2023, overall domestic undergraduate enrolments declined by 4 1%, with steeper declines among students from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds (9 6%), regional and remote students (12 5%) and first-in-family students (13 2%) This is unsurprising
- Australian uni enrolments have declined. But is
The cost of an arts course more than doubled But downward trends in both domestic student applications and new enrolments in bachelor degrees began in 2018
- Australia faces decline in domestic STEM enrolments
The decline is most evident in high-demand fields such as information technology, engineering, and natural and physical sciences Notably, domestic enrolments in natural and physical sciences have fallen by 11% between 2021 and 2023
- Australian uni enrolments have declined. But is Job-ready Graduates to . . .
But downward trends in both domestic student applications and new enrolments in bachelor degrees began in 2018 Numbers spiked in 2021, but a 2022 dive in enrolments suggests 2021 was a COVID anomaly, not a return to growth
- UG Domestic Enrolments’ Decadal Dive: Trend is not Friend
Optimists suggest a turn for the better in domestic enrolments Frank Larkins demonstrates that it needs to be sharp and fast There were just 18,000 more Australian citizens at university in 2023 than in 2014, and 89% of them were in Victoria, Professor Larkins (Uni Melbourne) reports
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