Our Melbourne student profile
See below the diverse range of students you'll be studying with and the type of study backgrounds they've come from.
This breakdown is of the Semester 1, 2026 commencing undergraduate cohort (with students who remained enrolled after the Semester 1 census date).
All students
9,668
Past higher education study students (domestic)
3.32% 321 students
Past vocational education and training (VET) study (domestic)
0.92% 89 students
Recent secondary education admitted solely on the basis of ATAR – regardless of whether this includes the consideration of adjustment factors such as equity (domestic)
57.41% 5,550 students
Recent secondary education admitted where both ATAR and additional criteria were considered – for example, portfolio, audition, extra test etc. (domestic)
1.33% 129students
Recent secondary education admitted on the basis of other criteria only and ATAR was not a factor (domestic)
2.23% 216 students
Work and life experience (domestic)
0.47% 45 students
International students
34.32% 3,318 students