STATISTICAL PROFILE

The following tables provide statistics on student enrolments and staffing levels. Some of the key features are described below.

• The net enrolment of the University increased by 21.0 per cent over the last decade, with higher degree by research enrolments growing by 41.7 per cent and other postgraduate enrolments increasing 44.7 per cent over the same period (table 1). Postgraduate enrolments were 21.8 per cent of total enrolments in 2001 as compared with 18.5 per cent in 1992. Higher degree by research enrolments represented 11.0 per cent of the total enrolments in 2001 as compared with 9.4 per cent in 1992.
  
  
• While over three-quarters of the University’s enrolments were full-time throughout the 1992 to 2001 period, part-time enrolments have grown by 25.8 per cent over the same period so that part-time enrolments accounted for 22.1 per cent in 2001 as compared with 21.4 per cent in 1992 (table 2).
  
  
• The enrolments of female students were 51.0 per cent of net enrolments in 2001 as compared with 48.5 per cent in 1992 (table 2). However female students represented only 48.6 per cent of higher degree by research enrolments and 46.9 per cent of other postgraduate enrolments in 2001 (table 5).
  
  
• The University has been diversifying its funding (tables 3 and 4). While local non-fee-paying (i.e. Research Training Scheme and operating grant) load continues to be the major proportion (83.6 per cent of the total student load), the load of local fee-paying students increased from 1.9 per cent to 3.1 per cent over the 1997 to 2001 period and fee-paying overseas student load increased from 12.8 per cent to 13.0 per cent over the same period.
  
  
• The local fee-paying student load was solely in postgraduate coursework degrees and postgraduate cross-institution enrolments (table 5). The percentage of fee-paying overseas student load in higher degrees by research was 10.7 per cent as compared with an overall average of 10.4 per cent. On the other hand, 15.9 per cent of fee-paying overseas student load was in other postgraduate load as compared with an overall average of 6.7 per cent.
  
  
• The University’s student load exceeded the Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA) undergraduate operating grant load target by 541 equivalent full-time student units (EFTSU) (6.2 per cent) and the postgraduate coursework operating grant target by 35 EFTSU (22.6 per cent). On the other hand the University’s student load was 42 EFTSU (3.7 per cent) below the target load for the newly-introduced Research Training Scheme (table 6).
  
  
• Within the University, the Faculty Group of Economics and Commerce, Education and Law had the largest student load with 28.0 per cent of the total load (tables 7 and 8). However the Faculty of Science had the largest higher degree by research load. While the Faculty of Agriculture had the lowest overall load, 35.2 per cent of its load was in higher degree by research which was nearly double the next highest percentage of research load.
  
  
• The number of degrees and awards conferred annually by the University has increased from 2,661 in 1992 to 3,334 in 2001; an increase of 25.3 per cent (table 9).
  
  
• The overall staffing level of the University has remained relatively stable over the last five years with a net increase of 1.4 per cent from 1997 to 2001 (table 10). However over the same period, the total staff full-time equivalence (FTE) in academic organisational units increased by 2.6 per cent. The net increase of 46 FTE staff in academic organisational units comprised increases of 45 FTE teaching-and-research academic staff, 18 FTE research only academic and 16 FTE other non-academic staff while the research only non-academic staff dropped 33 FTE. The overall staffing level in non-academic organisational units decreased by 1.8 per cent over the same period.
  
  
• Female staff represented 46.1 per cent of the total staff FTE (excluding the FTE of casual staff) (table 10). This contrasts with the 45.1 per cent recorded in 1997. However female staff FTE accounted for 59.4 per cent of the non-academic staffing level in academic organisational units and 55.3 per cent of the staffing level in non-academic organisational units.

Further statistics are provided in the Performance Indicators section of this Annual Report.