The latest indicative figures suggest Australia’s top ranking universities are set to lose a significant share of international students under the government’s proposed scheme to introduce caps for individual universities in a bid to overhaul the national higher education system.
Leading institutions such as the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne, for example, will each have their enrolment limits for international students in 2025 reduced by 7% – to 11,900 and 9,300 international students respectively.
The government figures suggest that some 15 institutions are set to lose a significant chunk of international enrolments while 23 others would have a higher share of international students under the proposed scheme.
The indicative figures, revealed on Friday 13 September, suggest the Federation University Australia has been the hardest hit by the cap and will only be permitted to take 1,100 overseas students from 2025, compared with 2023’s intake of 2,306.
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