International student numbers: 2020 wasn’t bad everywhere

Have a look at Uni Sydney

The 2020 student stats are out and the future is not great as lower international numbers flow through the system – commencing undergraduates with “overseas” citizenship were down 20 per cent plus.

Indicating the shape of things that could come, universities with significant overall declines in enrolments of internationals  in 2020 included,

ACT and NSW: * ANU: 10 526 (2019) and 8868 (2020) * Charles Sturt U: 10 502 (2019) to 7477 (2020) * UNSW 24 838 (2019) and 23 155 (2020) * UTS: 15 579 (2019) to 14 001 (2020) * Uni Wollongong: 15 984 (2019)  to 13 878 (2020) * UTS: 15 579 (2019) to 14 001 (2020)

Queensland: * CQU: 8726 (2019) to 5818 (2020) * QUT: 9829 (2019) to 8436 (2020) * Uni Sunshine Coast: 3835 (2019) to 2505 (2020)

Victoria: * Federation U: 10 269 (2019) to 8600 (2020) * La Trobe U: 10 648 (2019) to 8720 (2020) * Uni Melbourne: 28 545 (2019) to 27 254 (2020)

But for others , the news ranged from it could have been worse to not bad at all

Uni Queensland’s numbers increased from 20 254  in 2019 to 20431.

In South Australia, Uni Adelaide was up, from 9001 in ’19 to 9229 in 2020 and Uni SA increased from 6744 to 6976. While Flinders U lost students they did not lose many, declining from 5174 to 5025. But in SA the winner is private Torrens U whose international enrolments increased from 9610 in ’19 to 12 549 in 2020.

And for all the early gloom (CMM April 9 2020), Uni Sydney’s enrolment of students with overseas citizenship went up, from 30 076 in 2019 to 32 053  in 2020.