Bachelor Degree Completion Rates

Completion rates track cohorts of students from the year they commenced their degree studies to their completion status six years later. The percentages indicate the ratio of students from each university who had completed their studies by the end of this six year period.

Bachelor Degree Completion Rates Australian Universities
Aus Rank	University	2010 2015 %	(2009 2014 %)
1	University of Melbourne	87.7	88.0
2	University of Sydney	82.9	81.9
3	Australian National University	81.1	81.0
4	Monash University	79.8	79.3
5	University of New South Wales	79.6	78.1
6	University of Technology Sydney	76.7	77.1
7	University of Wollongong	75.2	76.7
8	Bond University	74.8	72.8
9	RMIT University	74.2	74.8
10	University of Western Australia	74.1	74.5
11	University of Notre Dame	73.8	75.2
12	University of Queensland	71.7	71.3
13	Deakin University	71.3	70.5
14	La Trobe University	70.9	69.5
15	Macquarie University	69.4	71.3
16	University of Adelaide	68.4	70.5
17=	Australian Catholic University	68.3	69.5
17=	Queensland University of Technology	68.3	69.3
19	Swinburne University of Technology	65.1	65.5
20	University of South Australia	64.4	65.8
	Average	64.1	65.0
21	University of Newcastle	63.5	64.1
22	Curtin University	63.2	64.2
23	Griffith University	62.6	64.1
24	Flinders University	62.2	62.5
25	Western Sydney University	61.2	63.1
26	University of Tasmania	60.6	62.7
27	University of Canberra	59.2	65.5
28	Southern Cross University	55.6	52.5
29	University of the Sunshine Coast	55.3	53.2
30	Victoria University	54.7	57.4
31	Charles Sturt University	54.6	53.5
32	James Cook University	54.2	55.6
33	Edith Cowan University	53.5	55.4
34	Murdoch University	50.9	49.6
35	University of New England	47.2	49.0
36	CQUniversity	45.5	42.5
38	University of Southern Queensland	42.5	44.4
39	Charles Darwin University	41.2	41.8
40	Federation University	36.4	51.3

Key & Notes

* Percentages are the latest available as at February 2020

* 2010 2015 % refers to the percentage % of students who enrolled in a university Bachelor degree in 2010 and had completed their degree at the most 6 years later by the end of 2015

* 2009 2014 % refers to the percentage % of students who enrolled in a university Bachelor degree in 2009 and had completed their degree at the most 6 years later by the end of 2014

* University of Divinity is not included in this table nor are its completion rates included in the averages

From the table we can see that University of Melbourne had the highest completion rate with over 87% of students who commenced a degree in 2010 having completed that degree six years later by the end of 2015. On the other hand, Federation University had the lowest completion rate with only around 36% of students who enrolled in a degree in 2010 having completed that degree six years later by the end of 2015. This is a big drop for FedUni which had a completion rate of over 51% for the previous year’s cohort, but FedUni, like other similar universities, has certain challenges with its retention rates due to its student demongraphic which the higher ranking city-based universities do not face. FedUni has introduced mentoring, tutoring, and counselling services to help address this issue.

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