Domestic Postgraduate Full-Fee Paying Tuition Fee Analysis in Australia (2020)

After receiving requests from various Planning, Recruitment and Admissions Offices at Australian universities, we have developed a database to identify the domestic full-fee paying tuition fees published by Australian universities.

Pricing is one of the most important elements of the marketing mix and for the education sector, the topic of price represents a complex process. It involves a detailed understanding of student preferences and the position of other competitors in the marketplace.

Australian universities are experiencing a more competitive environment within Australian borders so there is a need to have a greater understanding of the pricing strategy implemented by competitors nationally and not only from a state or territory perspective.

This competitive environment and change in student preferences is creating the need for Australian universities to better understand the complete spectrum of pricing strategies across all universities and compare their position against all competitors as students are comparing not only universities in a particular city but nationally.

In Australia, more than 240,000 domestic students are enrolled in postgraduate programs every year.

For the second time, Studymove Pty Ltd has collected data relating to the postgraduate coursework tuition fees for Domestic full-fee paying students. Our analysis includes the domestic full-fee paying fees of more than 2,500 programs across 35 Australian Universities

The database contains a listing of all programs by Australian university and the 2019 and 2020 fees for full-fee paying domestic students. Also, to facilitate further analysis, programs are classified into eleven broad fields of study. The database is available for purchase now! Please contact us for more information and to purchase the report.

INITIAL FINDINGS

Collecting information on domestic fees was not an easy task. Several universities presented their data based on credit points instead of annual fees and in some cases, there was not an orderly format to inform domestic students about program fees.

However, we successfully obtained information of more than 2,500 postgraduate coursework domestic full-fee paying fees from 35 Australian Universities. Below we present some valuable initial findings for the programs in the areas of a) Management and Commerce, b) Engineering and c) Information Technology.

A. MANAGEMENT AND COMMERCE

In the field of Management and Commerce, we identified a wide range of domestic full-fee paying fees across 35 Australian universities. On average, across these 35 Australian universities, the 2020 annual tuition domestic full-fee paying fees for Management and Commerce postgraduate programs is $28,551 with nearly a third of universities setting their fees above $30,000.

Chart 1. Average domestic full-fee paying fees for postgraduate Management and Commerce programs in Australia

Source: Comparative Analysis of Domestic Fees in Australia (Studymove, 2020).

B. ENGINEERING

Twenty-eight universities published domestic full-fee paying fees for Engineering programs. On average across these 29 Australian universities, the 2020 annual tuition domestic full-fee paying fees for postgraduate Engineering programs is $29,119 with 14 universities setting their fees above $30,000.

Chart 2. Average domestic full-fee paying fees for postgraduate Engineering programs in Australia

Source: Comparative Analysis of Domestic Fees in Australia (Studymove, 2020).

C. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

We reviewed programs in the field of Information Technology and we identified a large range of annual tuition domestic full-fee paying fees across 34 Australian universities. For IT programs there are big differences in the pricing strategy across universities.

On average across these 34 Australian universities, the 2020 annual tuition domestic full-fee paying fees for IT programs is $27,700 with one university reporting a lower fee of $18,750 and the highest recorded was $37,379.

Chart 3. Average domestic full-fee paying fees for postgraduate IT programs in Australia

Source: Comparative Analysis of Domestic Fees in Australia (Studymove, 2020).

Get access to all the data!

The full database lists the name of the university, study program and relevant fee for domestic full-fee paying students. The programs are also categorised into eleven broad fields of study including:

Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies
Architecture and Building
Creative Arts
Education
Engineering and Related Technologies
Health
Information Technology
Management and Commerce
MBA
Natural and Physical Sciences
Society and Culture

The database is available for purchase now!

Please contact us for more information and to purchase the report.

Please contact Keri Ramirez, Managing Director of Studymove for more information:

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Telephone: +612 6100 4121

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DATA HUB

After receiving requests from various Planning, Recruitment and Admissions Offices at Australian universities, we have developed a database to identify the domestic full-fee paying tuition fees published by Australian universities.