Performance-based funding for the public university sector
The report on the proposed performance measures the government should use to allocate growth funding for each public university has been released. It recommends four performance measures be introduced – the universities are reviewing the measures and will discuss them further with the government.
Following is the publicly available data on the performance of the public universities on proxies for the first three of the four measures.
Note that the data proposed for the measures is not currently publicly available (eg the employment outcomes measure is proposed to be contextualised for local employment rates using linear progression, the measure for student satisfaction with teacher quality is proposed to be contextualised by study area, and the publicly available attrition rate data is from 2016 whereas the measure proposed in the report is for 2018 data ). The fourth proposed measure (participation rates for Indigenous, low SES and regional domestic bachelor students) incorporates multiple variables and sector wide averages across these variables. I have left that for others to pull together.
Universities are ranked from lowest performing on each measure to highest (noting that the report proposes additional work to contextualise performance):
| Adjusted attrition rates (2016) | Overall graduate employment rates (2017) | % | Student satisfaction with teacher quality (2017) | % | |||
| Charles Darwin University | 26.43 | Edith Cowan University | 82.4 | Victoria University | 74.9 | ||
| University of Southern Queensland | 25.67 | Western Sydney University | 82.6 | Charles Darwin University | 76.7 | ||
| Swinburne University of Technology | 23.66 | Victoria University | 82.7 | University of New South Wales | 77.5 | ||
| Southern Cross University | 23.37 | The University of Western Australia | 83.4 | University of Southern Queensland | 77.5 | ||
| CQUniversity | 23.15 | The University of Adelaide | 83.5 | The University of Sydney | 77.7 | ||
| Charles Sturt University | 23.14 | Griffith University | 83.6 | Macquarie University | 78.3 | ||
| The University of New England | 22.80 | Murdoch University | 84.0 | Western Sydney University | 79.5 | ||
| Federation University Australia | 22.47 | University of the Sunshine Coast | 84.3 | La Trobe University | 79.6 | ||
| University of Tasmania | 22.06 | The University of Melbourne | 84.6 | University of Technology Sydney | 79.6 | ||
| Victoria University | 21.41 | Swinburne University of Technology | 84.8 | University of Canberra | 79.8 | ||
| Edith Cowan University | 21.30 | University of Southern Queensland | 85.4 | RMIT University | 79.9 | ||
| University of the Sunshine Coast | 19.17 | Flinders University | 85.5 | Southern Cross University | 80.4 | ||
| University of Canberra | 18.58 | RMIT University | 85.7 | Australian Catholic University | 80.7 | ||
| James Cook University | 18.57 | Queensland University of Technology | 86.5 | James Cook University | 81.3 | ||
| Murdoch University | 17.93 | The University of South Australia | 86.9 | All Universities | 81.3 | ||
| Flinders University | 17.91 | Southern Cross University | 87.0 | Monash University | 81.4 | ||
| Griffith University | 16.74 | Curtin University | 87.2 | The University of Adelaide | 81.4 | ||
| University of South Australia | 15.32 | All universities | 87.2 | University of Newcastle | 81.4 | ||
| Australian Catholic University | 14.71 | University of Technology Sydney | 87.5 | Charles Sturt University | 81.5 | ||
| Curtin University | 14.67 | Monash University | 87.7 | Flinders University | 81.5 | ||
| Deakin University | 14.54 | La Trobe University | 87.8 | The University of Western Australia | 81.5 | ||
| La Trobe University | 14.38 | The University of Queensland | 87.8 | The University of South Australia | 81.6 | ||
| All universities | 14.32 | James Cook University | 88.0 | Central Queensland University | 81.8 | ||
| The University of Newcastle | 14.24 | Macquarie University | 88.1 | University of Tasmania | 81.8 | ||
| Western Sydney University | 13.21 | University of New South Wales | 88.2 | University of the Sunshine Coast | 81.8 | ||
| University of Wollongong | 12.22 | Deakin University | 88.6 | Swinburne University of Technology | 81.9 | ||
| Queensland University of Technology | 10.93 | University of New England | 88.6 | Griffith University | 82.3 | ||
| The University of Adelaide | 10.54 | The University of Sydney | 89.0 | The University of Melbourne | 82.4 | ||
| RMIT University | 10.52 | Central Queensland University | 89.3 | Queensland University of Technology | 83.3 | ||
| The University of Queensland | 9.01 | University of Newcastle | 89.3 | The Australian National University | 83.3 | ||
| Macquarie University | 8.98 | Federation University Australia | 89.5 | Deakin University | 83.4 | ||
| The University of Western Australia | 8.37 | The Australian National University | 89.6 | Murdoch University | 83.5 | ||
| The Australian National University | 7.21 | University of Wollongong | 89.9 | The University of Queensland | 83.5 | ||
| University of Technology Sydney | 6.63 | Australian Catholic University | 91.1 | University of Wollongong | 83.5 | ||
| The University of Sydney | 5.52 | University of Tasmania | 91.1 | Curtin University | 83.7 | ||
| Monash University | 5.33 | University of Canberra | 91.5 | Federation University Australia | 84.3 | ||
| University of New South Wales(b) | 4.04 | Charles Darwin University | 92.4 | University of New England | 85.7 | ||
| The University of Melbourne | 4.00 | Charles Sturt University | 92.6 | Edith Cowan University | 85.8 |
Sources: https://www.qilt.edu.au and https://www.education.gov.au/selected-higher-education-statistics-2017-student-data
