Victorian universities reporting their IT outlay spent an average of 8 per cent of income last year

An analysis of annual reports tabled in the state’s parliament sets out IT spending in seven of the state’s unis.

 

University	IT Spend	% of total income	Total income
Uni Mel	$161M	6.5%	$2,494M
RMIT	$107M	7.5%	$1,433M
Deakin	$112M	9.1%	$1,232M
Swinburne	$69M	9.6%	$719M
Vic Uni	$68M	15%	$453M
La Trobe	$59M	7.3%	$804M
Fed Uni	$16M	4.8%	$330M

A learned reader points out It is quite a spread, with a ten per cent gap between the per centage of income allocated at Federation U and Victoria U.

Where VU’s money goes is not apparent from its report but it seems UniMelbourne has got operations under control and is spending up on investments – $72m goes to new projects.  Swinburne U is also building, with just half identified outlays going on business as usual.

The generality of spends are 60 per cent ops and 40 per cent new projects, although not at Federation U, where the budget all goes on BAU.

But, where IT watchers wonder, is the Monash U figure. The  annual report’s compliance index states ICT expenditure as required to be disclosed, but lists a page number as n/a.