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Key statistics

Offerings

Degree programs

Undergraduate: 71
Postgraduate: 70

Courses

Total: 611

Enrolments

Enrolment data is at Census 1 2011.

Student enrolments

Total: 7,766
On campus: 7,640 (98.4%)
Off campus: 126 (1.6%)

Female: 5,066 (65.2%)
Male: 2,700 (34.8%)

Enrolment levels and growth from inception
Year Student numbers Growth
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 6,142 79.1%
Postgraduate coursework 680 8.8%
Higher degree by research 141 1.8%
Non-award 803 10.3%
Faculty enrolments *
Faculty Student numbers % of total
Arts and Social Sciences 2,073 26.7%
Business 1,445 18.6%
Science, Health and Education 3,446 44.4%
Non-award 803 10.3%

* 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: 3,418 (44.0%)
21 years and over: 4,348 (56.0%)

Average age: 25

First in family to attend university as an undergraduate

The University continued to achieve its aim of enabling access to university education, with 49 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 77 percent of on campus students being permanent residents on the Sunshine Coast.

Permanent address Students Percent
Sunshine Coast 5,939 77.7%
Brisbane 409 5.4%
Other Queensland 327 4.3%
Interstate 159 2.1%
Overseas 806 10.5%
Total 7,640 100%

International student enrolments

Total: 805
On campus: 789

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 9,955 students up to the end of 2011. Since the first graduation ceremony in 1999, 902 graduates have returned to study at the University of the Sunshine Coast and graduated with another degree.

Graduate employment outcomes

87 percent of the University’s Australian resident Bachelor graduates were employed full-time or part-time, or enrolled in full-time study based on responses to the 2010 Australian Graduate Survey v.

Graduate satisfaction

92.3 percent of the University’s graduates were satisfied vv with their educational experience at the University according to the 2010 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 3, 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): 212
Teaching and research staff with postgraduate qualifications (Headcount): 82%

All staff: 600

i Full-time equivalent excluding casual staff, 31 March 2011.

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