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What is the percentage of international students studying on-campus in Australia?

Often, we get asked… what is the percentage of international students studying on-campus in Australia?

The latest dataset from the Department of Education and Training (which is published annually) shows that in total, 18% of on-campus students in the university sector in Australia are international students.

Across all Australian universities, the percentage of international students varies between 2.2% and 41.5%. The table below presents the percentage of international students studying at each university.

PERCENTAGE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ON-CAMPUS IN AUSTRALIA

University Name	Percentage of international students on-campus (2016)
Australian Catholic University	10.0%
Bond University	41.5%
Charles Darwin University (b)	22.1%
Charles Sturt University	16.1%
CQUniversity	23.0%
Curtin University of Technology	15.0%
Deakin University	17.4%
Edith Cowan University	16.4%
Federation University Australia (a)	32.4%
Flinders University	11.6%
Griffith University	17.6%
James Cook University	14.9%
La Trobe University	19.4%
Macquarie University	22.9%
Monash University	24.9%
Murdoch University	7.4%
Queensland University of Technology	16.0%
RMIT University	19.9%
Southern Cross University	13.9%
Swinburne University of Technology	13.3%
The Australian National University	30.0%
The University of Adelaide	24.7%
The University of Melbourne	33.5%
The University of New England	4.2%
The University of Newcastle	10.5%
The University of Notre Dame Australia	2.2%
The University of Queensland	26.0%
The University of Sydney	30.9%
The University of Western Australia	16.8%
University of Canberra	17.5%
University of Divinity	7.2%
University of New South Wales	N/A
University of South Australia	16.0%
University of Southern Queensland	8.2%
University of Tasmania	11.6%
University of Technology Sydney	27.6%
University of the Sunshine Coast	16.1%
University of Wollongong	20.1%
Victoria University	16.5%
Western Sydney University	10.0%
Total	18.2%

Source: With information from the Department of Education and Training (Australian Government, 2016).

(a) Previously the University of Ballarat. (b) As a result of a collaborative partnership between Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education and Charles Darwin University.