Performance-based university funding

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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
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