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Participation in Education: Overseas students in higher education
The impact of fees Before the government abolished tuition fees for higher education in 1974, most overseas students were sponsored under the Colombo Plan or other government schemes. Others were sponsored by their own governments or paid the same fees as Australian students. From 1974 until the early 1980s, overseas students enrolled on the same basis as Australian students, i.e there were no fees for tuition. In 1986 the government introduced full fees for overseas students. Some students, however, were fully sponsored by the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB), and others were privately subsidised, meeting some of the cost of their tuition via an overseas student charge. From 1990 all overseas students were admitted on a full fee-paying basis2. In 1993 fees varied according to the field of study and level of course. The median annual costs were $15,000 for a doctorate or higher, $12,000 for a master's and other graduate studies and $10,000 for a bachelor's degree. OVERSEAS HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS
Source: Department of Employment, Education and Training Selected Higher Education Statistics Choice of courses In 1993, 76% of overseas students were studying at undergraduate level and 97% of them were undertaking a bachelor's pass degree. Of those students studying at postgraduate level, 30% were undertaking doctorates or higher, 49% master's degrees, and 21% other postgraduate studies. Business, administration and economics was the most popular field of study for both men and women at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Other popular fields of study for women at postgraduate level were arts, humanities and the social sciences and science and for men were science and engineering. The second most popular field of study for undergraduate females was arts, humanities and the social sciences, while for undergraduate males it was science. The different course choices between men and women were similar to those of Australian students. OVERSEAS STUDENTS' FIELDS OF STUDY, 1993
Source: Department of Employment, Education and Training Selected Higher Education Statistics Location of students In 1993, 59% of all overseas higher education students were enrolled in either Victorian or New South Wales institutions. This was much the same as the proportion of all higher education students enrolled in these two states. Victoria had the most overseas higher education students, with 32% of all enrolments, compared to 28% of all higher education students enrolled in Victoria. Western Australia had the greatest difference between the proportions of overseas students and total students enrolled in its institutions, 14% compared to 10%. Victoria's Monash University had the most fee-paying overseas students (4,120), accounting for 12% of all overseas fee-paying students. This was followed by the University of New South Wales (3,090), the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2,945), and Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia (2,412). HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS, 1993
Source: Department of Employment, Education, and Training Selected Higher Education Statistics Source countries of overseas students In 1993, the top three source countries for overseas students were Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore, accounting for 49% of the total overseas student population. The top ten source countries together contributed 69% of the total number of overseas students. Monash University and the University of New South Wales attracted the highest number of students from Hong Kong. Monash University, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Curtin University attracted the highest number of students from Malaysia, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Curtin University attracted the highest number from Singapore3. TOP TEN SOURCE COUNTRIES(a) FOR OVERSEAS STUDENTS, 1993 (a) Students' country of permanent home residence. Source: Department of Employment, Education and Training Selected Higher Education Statistics Endnotes 1 Harris, G. and Jarrett, F. (1990) Educating overseas students in Australia: who benefits? Allen and Unwin. 2 Dobson, I. (1993) Trends in enrolments of overseas students in higher education People and Place Vol. 1, No. 2. 3 Department of Employment, Education and Training (1994) Overseas Student Statistics, 1993.
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