The Higher Education Standards Panel identified attrition rates at universities and some other providers, using regression techniques to ‘allow for the influence of student characteristics’. “Controlling for student characteristics reduces variation in institutional attrition rates by just under half. The standard deviation of adjusted institutional attrition rates is 7.5 percentage points which reduces to 4.4 percentage points for the OLS method and 4.3 percentage points for the logit method,” HESP states. (Sorry, no idea.)
Adjusted and ‘modified for student distribution’ institutional attrition rates, domestic bachelor commencing students, 2014, per cent
| Institution | Adjusted attrition rate | OLS ‘modified’ attrition rate | Logit ‘modified’ attrition rate |
| The University of Melbourne | 3.7 | 8.6 | 5.3 |
| University of New South Wales | 4.8 | 9.2 | 5.9 |
| The University of Sydney | 5.9 | 10.3 | 7.2 |
| Monash University | 6.5 | 11.8 | 8.8 |
| The Australian National University | 7.3 | 10.1 | 7.7 |
| The University of Western Australia | 7.7 | 12.7 | 10.6 |
| University of Technology Sydney | 7.7 | 10.0 | 8.0 |
| The University of Notre Dame Australia | 9.5 | 10.4 | 8.6 |
| Macquarie University | 9.7 | 11.7 | 9.9 |
| The University of Queensland | 9.9 | 14.3 | 12.4 |
| RMIT University | 10.3 | 13.2 | 11.0 |
| University of Wollongong | 10.6 | 12.0 | 10.0 |
| The University of Adelaide | 11.6 | 14.8 | 13.1 |
| La Trobe University | 11.6 | 13.7 | 11.3 |
| Queensland University of Technology | 12.0 | 14.2 | 12.3 |
| Western Sydney University | 14.0 | 13.4 | 11.7 |
| Curtin University of Technology | 14.1 | 14.3 | 12.6 |
| Deakin University | 14.4 | 13.7 | 11.8 |
| University of Newcastle | 14.5 | 15.1 | 13.0 |
| Avondale College of Higher Education | 15.3 | 14.3 | 12.2 |
| Australian Catholic University | 15.3 | 15.8 | 13.8 |
| Griffith University | 16.0 | 17.3 | 15.2 |
| University of South Australia | 16.1 | 16.3 | 14.5 |
| Flinders University of South Australia | 17.1 | 17.8 | 15.8 |
| University of Canberra | 17.3 | 17.6 | 15.6 |
| Murdoch University | 18.7 | 16.5 | 14.4 |
| James Cook University | 19.0 | 20.1 | 18.3 |
| Victoria University | 19.5 | 18.1 | 15.6 |
| University of the Sunshine Coast | 19.9 | 20.0 | 17.9 |
| Edith Cowan University | 20.7 | 17.8 | 15.6 |
| Eastern College Australia Inc | 21.9 | 13.9 | 11.5 |
| University of Southern Queensland | 22.2 | 16.6 | 15.3 |
| University of New England | 22.6 | 15.1 | 13.8 |
| Charles Sturt University | 22.7 | 15.2 | 13.2 |
| Federation University Australia | 23.3 | 21.3 | 18.3 |
| Central Queensland University | 23.9 | 18.9 | 17.0 |
| Southern Cross University | 24.1 | 20.5 | 17.8 |
| Christian Heritage College | 24.4 | 21.8 | 19.1 |
| Swinburne University of Technology | 24.7 | 16.8 | 14.4 |
| Holmesglen Institute of TAFE | 25.8 | 23.5 | 22.9 |
| Charles Darwin University | 26.1 | 18.7 | 16.5 |
| Tabor Adelaide | 27.4 | 18.9 | 15.3 |
| Melbourne Polytechnic | 28.1 | 24.5 | 20.8 |
| University of Tasmania | 37.7 | 30.2 | 25.4 |
| Standard deviation
(percentage points) |
7.5 | 4.4 | 4.3 |