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Table 1

Total student enrolments by course type, 2008–2018

Course type	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Higher degree research
Doctorate by research	1,676	1,761	1,798	1,767	1,788	1,754	1,757	1,782	1,809	1,748	1,758
Master's degree by research	310	298	306	285	270	241	218	196	210	200	172
Subtotal higher degree research	1,986	2,059	2,104	2,052	2,058	1,995	1,976	1,978	2,019	1,949	1,930
% Higher degree research	10.2%	9.8%	9.3%	8.6%	8.4%	8.0%	7.7%	8.1%	8.3%	8.0%	8.1%
Postgraduate coursework
Doctorate by coursework	16	26	46	57	58	21	22
Master's degree extended						179	22	993	1,423	1,711	1,716
Master's degree by coursework	1,612	2,043	2,345	2,417	2,406	2,410	2,623	3,340	4,202	5,003	5,051
Higher degree qualifying	20	19	20	35	33	88	75	22	18	20	22
Graduate diploma	594	564	643	559	518	481	415	420	496	508	233
Graduate certificate	213	162	156	175	178	151	169	199	256	271	286
Postgraduate cross-institutional	44	61	57	67	59	48	50	72	56	74	70
Subtotal postgraduate coursework	2,499	2,875	3,267	3,310	3,252	3,378	3,991	5,046	6,541	7,587	7,378
% Postgraduate coursework	12.8%	13.6%	14.5%	13.9%	13.3%	13.5%	15.5%	20.6%	26.4%	31.2%	31.0%
Undergraduate
Graduate entry bachelor's degree	486	465	495	521	456	326	230	154	81	17	5
Bachelor's honours degree	445	439	468	424	515	558	617	687	726	705	657
Bachelor's pass degree	13,570	14,678	15,650	16,792	17,656	18,228	18,125	16,008	14,439	13,350	13,083
Diploma	66	78	85	84	99	148	231	220	270	269	281
Enabling	237	269	295	370	99	99	168	45	74	64	56
Undergraduate cross-institutional	225	225	218	229	285	315	460	405	406	384	369
Non-award	6	3	8	10	15		8	4	4	2	6
Subtotal undergraduate	15,035	16,157	17,219	18,430	19,125	19,674	19,839	17,523	16,000	14,791	14,457
% Undergraduate	77.0%	76.6%	76.2%	77.5%	78.3%	78.5%	76.9%	71.4%	65.4%	60.8%	60.8%
Gross enrolments	19,520	21,091	22,590	23,792	24,435	25,047	25,806	24,547	24,470	24,327	23,765
Less dual enrolments	391	398	431	500	218	218	308	253	309	236	262
Net enrolments	19,129	20,693	22,159	23,292	24,217	24,829	25,498	24,294	24,161	24,091	23,503

Enrolments at 31 March each year

Table 2

Student load (EFTSL) by funding source and broad course type, actual 2013–2017 and 2018 preliminary

Funding source	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018 2018 full-year load as at 9 November 2018.
Commonwealth-supported and Research Training Scheme (RTS) students
Higher degree research	950.6	995.0	1008.8	995.7	949.9	892.5
Postgraduate coursework	883.0	1,323.2	2,172.2	2,941.8	3,294.9	2,914.5
Undergraduate	13,953.9	13,818.5	11,750.7	10,613.8	9,750.5	9,746.9
Subtotal Commonwealth-supported and RTS	15,787.5	16,136.7	14,931.7	14,551.3	13,042.0	12,661.4
% Commonwealth-supported and RTS	75.7%	75.8%	75.0%	73.4%	70.1%	69.7%
Domestic fee-paying students
Higher degree research
Postgraduate coursework	631.5	638.0	791.5	921.9	946.4	896.4
Undergraduate		1.0		0.5	2.0	2.3
Subtotal domestic fee-paying	631.5	639.0	791.5	921.6	948.9	899.1
% Domestic fee-paying	3.0%	3.0%	4.0%	4.7%	5.1%	5.0%
Onshore international fee-paying students
Higher degree research	499.0	493.6	467.4	458.4	324.5	321.0
Postgraduate coursework	713.0	803.3	965.9	1,311.9	1,843.5	1,895.6
Undergraduate	2,388.6	2,410.9	2,105.1	2,151.9	2,161.5	2,199.0
Subtotal onshore international fee-paying	3,600.6	3,707.8	3,538.4	3,922.2	4,329.5	4,415.6
% Onshore international fee-paying	17.3%	17.4%	17.8%	19.8%	23.3%	24.3%
Offshore international fee-paying students
Higher degree research	26.0	28.5	29.8	22.0	27.8	31.3
Postgraduate coursework	13.6	15.5	10.1	6.3	3.0	1.0
Undergraduate	705.2	695.4	520.6	320.5	187.5	56.9
Subtotal offshore international fee-paying	744.8	739.4	560.5	348.6	218.3	89.1
% Offshore international fee-paying	3.6%	3.5%	2.8%	1.8%	1.2%	0.5%
Time-limit and non-award students
Higher degree research	86.6	76.8	79.6	72.0	67.3	82.1
Postgraduate coursework			0.3	1.8	2.6	5.8
Undergraduate	0.1	0.5		0.5	3.0	5.0
Subtotal time-limit and non-award	86.8	77.3	79.9	74.3	72.9	92.8
% Time-limit and non-award	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%
Total Load Discrepancies between the sums of component items and totals are due to rounding.	20,851.3	21,300.3	19,902.0	19,818.1	18,611.6	18,158.0

Table 3

Full-year student load (EFTSL) by faculty and broad course type 2018 2018 full-year load as at 10 December.

Faculty	Higher degree research	Postgraduate coursework	Undergraduate	Total Discrepancies between the sums of component items and totals are due to rounding.
Arts, Business, Law and Education	346.1	2,080.1	6,051.5	8,477.8
Engineering and Mathematical Sciences	320.1	1,329.1	1,921.8	3,571.1
Health and Medical Sciences	271.8	1,525.5	927.5	2,724.7
Indigenous Studies		18.9	122.8	141.6
Office of the DVC E		3.3	19.4	22.7
Science	570.7	756.4	2,970.3	4,297.4
Total Discrepancies between the sums of component items and totals are due to rounding.	1,508.7	5,713.3	12,013.4	19,235.3

Full-year student by faculty, 2018

Arts, Business, Law and Education	44.5%
Engineering and Mathematical Sciences	18.6%
Health and Medical Sciences	14.2%
Indigenous Studies	0.7%
Office of the DVCE	0.1%
Science	22.3%

Table 4

Degrees and awards conferred by course type, 2008–2018

Course type	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH
Higher doctorate			1	1	1				2		2
Doctorate by research	263	262	235	244	276	284	268	259	328	273	264
Master's degree by research	66	52	47	55	53	53	59	55	50	45	49
Subtotal higher degree research	329	314	283	300	330	337	327	314	380	318	315
% Higher degree research	7.0%	6.3%	5.3%	5.4%	5.5%	5.6%	5.0%	4.2%	4.7%	4.5%	5.0%
POSTGRADUATE COURSEWORK
Doctorate by coursework			5	11	15
Master's degree extended						81	44	21	74	161	101
Master's degree by coursework	563	628	798	855	910	741	764	747	1,139	1,403	1,635
Graduate diploma	335	330	342	345	372	300	336	285	313	327	323
Graduate certificate	79	139	137	143	109	113	105	103	130	188	157
Subtotal postgraduate coursework	997	1,097	1,282	1,354	1,406	1,235	1,249	1,156	1,656	2,079	2,216
% Postgraduate coursework	20.8%	22.0%	24.1%	24.5%	23.3%	20.7%	19.1%	15.5%	20.4%	29.3%	35.0%
UNDERGRADUATE
Graduate entry bachelor's degree	91	89	90	99	119	113	91	87	133	6	7
Bachelor's honours degree	701	790	823	842	910	905	967	935	772	537	426
Bachelor's pass degree	2,594	2,689	2,832	2,917	3,241	3,356	3,894	4,893	5,086	4,105	3,298
Diploma	14	11	17	23	16	22	24	51	85	57	73
Subtotal undergraduate	3,400	3,579	3,762	3,881	4,286	4,396	4,976	5,966	6,076	4,705	3,804
% Undergraduate	72.2%	71.7%	70.6%	70.1%	71.2%	73.7%	75.9%	80.2%	74.9%	66.2%	60.0%
TOTAL	4,706	4,990	5,327	5,535	6,022	5,968	6,552	7,436	8,112	7,102	6,335

Table 5

Staff FTE Full-time equivalence of full-time and fractional full-time staff. Excludes full-time equivalence of casual staff. by major organisational unit, 2013–2018

			2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
ACADEMIC ORGANISATIONAL UNITS (AOUs)
	ACADEMIC STAFF
		Teaching and research
		Total	805.8	812.3	782.4	778.9	707.5	716.2
		% Female	33.2%	34.3%	34.1%	34.1%	34.3%	35.1%

		Teaching only
		Total	69.8	82.8	79.7	73.3	108.3	118.6
		% Female	58.9%	57.1%	61.0%	61.0%	54.5%	53.8%

		Research only
		Total	633.4	617.2	607.4	568.0	529.5	487.2
		% Female	44.7%	44.9%	44.2%	44.2%	43.9%	44.1%

	Total academic staff
	Total		1,510.0 Total academic staff FTE includes 1.0 FTE of staff with a function other than teaching and/or research. Excludes 23.6 FTE academic staff not in AOUs. Total academic staff is 1,533.5 FTE.	1,514.8 Total academic staff FTE includes 2.5 FTE of staff with a function other than teaching and/or research. Excludes 23.2 FTE academic staff not in AOUs. Total academic staff is 1,538.0 FTE.	1,472.1 Total academic staff FTE includes 2.6 FTE of staff with a function other than teaching and/or research. Excludes 24.2 FTE academic staff not in AOUs. Total academic staff is 1,496.3 FTE.	1,421.9 Total academic staff FTE includes 1.7 FTE of staff with a function other than teaching and/or research. Excludes 23.0 FTE academic staff not in AOUs. Total academic staff is 1,422.7 FTE.	1,351.6 Total academic staff FTE includes 6.3 FTE of staff with a function other than teaching and/or research. Excludes 22 FTE academic staff not in AOUs. Total academic staff is 1,373.6 FTE.	1,327.9 Total academic staff FTE includes 5.9 FTE of staff with a function other than teaching and/or research. Excludes 21.5 FTE academic staff not in AOUs. Total academic staff is 1,349.4 FTE.
	% Female		39.2%	39.8%	39.7%	39.2%	39.6%	40.0%

	PROFESSIONAL STAFF
		Research only
		Total	195.5	181.1	185.3	163.3	163.3	151.9
		% Female	72.8%	74.9%	73.9%	73.9%	70.9%	73.5%

		Other
		Total	933.3	930.6	916.1	875.6 Recategorisation occured from academic to non-academic professional between 2016 and 2017.	348.1 Recategorisation occured from academic to non-academic professional between 2016 and 2017.	300.6
		% Female	68.1%	67.6%	68.2%	68.5%	70.0%	68.7%

	Total professional staff
	Total		1,128.8	1,111.7	1,101.5	1,038.9	511.4	452.5
	% Female		68.9%	68.8%	69.2%	69.3%	70.3%	70.3%

Total academic organisational units
Total			2,638.8	2,626.5	2,573.5	2,460.8	1,863.0	1,780.4
% Female			51.9%	52.1%	52.3%	51.9%	48.0%	47.7%

NON-ACADEMIC ORGANISATIONAL UNITS
Total			1,083.8	1,130.1	1,103.3	1,098.2	1,401.2	1,526.5
% Female			62.8%	65.0%	64.3%	64.5%	65.0%	66.9%

TOTAL UNIVERSITY Total academic staff FTE includes 5.9 FTE of staff with a function other than teaching and/or research. Excludes 21.5 FTE academic staff not in AOUs. Total academic staff is 1,349.4 FTE.
Total Discrepancies between the sums of component items and totals are due to rounding.			3,722.6	3,756.6	3,676.8	3,558.0	3,242.1	3,306.9
% Female			55.1%	56.0%	55.9%	55.8%	55.3%	56.6%

Staff FTE by major organisational unit, 2018 Total may not add to 100 per cent due to rounding.

Academic teaching and research staff in AOUs	21.7%
Academic teaching only staff in AOUs	3.6%
Academic research only staff in AOUs	14.7%
Academic other staff in AOUs	0.2%
Professional research only staff in AOUs	4.6%
Professional other staff in AOUs	9.1%
Staff in non-academic organisational units	46.2%

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