The Higher Education student data collection encompasses enrolments, equivalent full time student load (unit of study data) and completions, and is reported by all Higher Education Providers.
On this page:
Full Year Data (as at 30 October 2023)
Key Findings
Visual Analytics
Tertiary Collection of Student Data - Annual Summary
Guide to using the Tertiary Collection of Student Data Power BI report
Pivot Tables
Student Enrolments Pivot Table
Award Course Completions Pivot Table
Information and Excel Tables
2022 Student summary time series
2022 Section 1 - Commencing students
2022 Section 3 - Commencing student load
2022 Section 4 - All student load
2022 Section 5 - Liability status categories
2022 Section 6 - First Nations students
2022 Section 7 - Overseas students
2022 Section 8 - Special courses
2022 Section 9 - Ethnicity related data
2022 Section 10 - Open Universities Australia
2022 Section 11 - Equity groups
2022 Section 12 - Academic organisational units
2022 Section 13 - Private Universities (Table C) and Non-University Higher Education Institutions
2022 Section 14 - Award course completions
2022 Section 15 - Attrition, retention and success
2022 Section 16 – Equity performance data
A note about 2020 Higher Education Equity and Equity Performance Data
During the transition to the Tertiary Collection of Student Information (TCSI) System, enrolment numbers for students with disability were substantially under-reported in the case of several universities. This issue affects data in Section 11, Section 16 and some Visual Analytics products. Caution should be taken when using the 2020 enrolment data points for students with disability. All other time points are unaffected.
Please note that the Department of Education updated the following data products in August 2024 owing to the discovery of corruption in the location coding software which has impacted the Low SES (SA1 measure) and First Address Low SES (SA1 measure) for 2022 and 2021 (ASGS21) and regional and remote (ASGS21) for 2021:
- Section 11 – Equity Data
- Section 16 - Performance measures
- Timeseries summary
- PowerBI
The updated data show a small reduction in the number of low SES students and their participation rate in comparison to the previously published data for 2022.
No other data products were affected or changed.