DID YOU KNOW
Australia is an education exporter
- $3 billion the value of Australian education export earnings in 1999, outstripping wool and on a par with wheat.
- 157,634 the number of overseas students studying at school, university and post-compulsory education and training institutions in 1999. In 1999 this was an all time high.
(Source: Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs University Data Collection, 1999)
- 83,000 the number of overseas students enrolled in post-school education and training courses in Australia in 1999.
- 50 per cent the percentage of all overseas students in 1999 that were studying business and finance sector related subjects.
(Source: Australian Vice Chancellors Committee, 1999)
- 33 per cent the percentage of course completions in university business administration and economics field in universities, accounted for by overseas students in 1999.
(Source: Australian Vice Chancellors Committee, 1999)