Key statistics

Enrolments

Enrolment data is at Census 1 2012.

Student enrolments

Total: 8,139
On campus: 8,010 (98.4%)
Off campus: 129 (1.6%)

Female: 5,338 (65.6%)
Male: 2,801 (34.4%)

Enrolment levels and growth from inception
Year Student numbers Growth
2012 8,139 4.8%
2011 7,766 6.7%
2010 7,276 15.0%
2009 6,325 8.4%
2008 5,833 11.2%
2007 5.246 10.2%
2006 4,760 11.2%
2005 4,280 10.8%
2004 3,862 8.6%
2003 3,556 3.2%
2002 3,446 13%
2001 3,050 13.6%
2000 2,686 11.8%
1999 2,403 23.5%
1998 1,946 64.2%
1997 1,185 126.1%
1996 524 -
Program type enrolments
Program type Student numbers % of total
Undergraduate 6,564 80.6%
Postgraduate coursework 611 7.5%
Higher degree by research 177 2.2%
Non-award 787 9.7%
Faculty enrolments *
Faculty Student numbers % of total
Arts and Business 3,534 43.4%
Science, Health, Education and Engineering 3,819 46.9%
Non-award 787 9.7%

* Faculty enrolment summation may not equal total student enrolments. This is due to rounding errors from enrolment allocations for programs which are shared across faculties.

Age of students

Under 21 years: 3,605 (44.3%)
21 years and over: 4,534 (55.7%)

Average age: 26

First in family to attend university as an undergraduate

The University continued to achieve its aim of enabling access to university education, with 49.3 percent of the students undertaking either a Bachelor or Associate degree the first in their family to attend university.

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Permanent home residence of on campus students

The Sunshine Coast community continued to show high demand for the University with more than 70 percent of on campus students being permanent residents on the Sunshine Coast.

Permanent address Students Percent
Sunshine Coast 5,610 70.0%
Brisbane 232 2.9%
Fraser Coast 78 1.0%
Gympie 187 2.3%
Moreton Bay 749 9.4%
Somerset 12 0.1%
Other Queensland 288 3.6%
Interstate 150 1.9%
Overseas 704 8.8%
Total 8,010 100%

International student enrolments

Total: 697
On campus: 690

Number of countries represented: 61

Top five countries

The top five source countries for international students are:

  • United States
  • Germany
  • Canada
  • France
  • Norway

Graduates

Graduate numbers

The University has conferred awards to 11,267 students up to the end of 2012. Since the first graduation ceremony in 1999, 1005 graduates have returned to study at the University of the Sunshine Coast and graduated with at least one other degree with 12,415 awards being conferred in total.

Graduate outcomes

92 percent of the University’s Australian resident undergraduates were employed full-time or part-time, or enrolled in full-time study based on responses to the 2012 Australian Graduate Survey v.

Graduate satisfaction

86 percent of the University’s undergraduates were satisfied vv with their educational experience at the University according to the 2012 Australian Graduate Survey v.

v The Australian Graduate Survey is a national survey of university graduates coordinated by Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) and conducted by Australian universities.
vv Includes ratings of 4 and 5 on a five point scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) for the Overall Satisfaction Index.

Staff i

Teaching and research staff (FTE): 236
Teaching and research staff with postgraduate qualifications (Headcount): 81%

All staff: 634

i Full-time equivalent excluding casual staff, 31 March 2012.

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