Higher education completion Data dictionary

Proportion of students with disability who complete a higher education qualification.

2023

2021

Domestic students with disability in higher education award courses.

The number of domestic students with disability in higher education award courses who complete their qualification.

The number of domestic students with disability in higher education award courses.

The number of domestic students with disability in higher education award courses who complete their qualification, divided by the number of domestic students with disability in higher education award courses.

Expressed as a percentage.

100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

1. The measure reports 6-year completion rates for commencing students in a given year who completed their study within a 6-year period. For example, cohort 2018–2023 are students commencing in 2018 who completed their study in any year between 2018 and 2023. The data download tables also report 9-year completion rates for commencing students in a given year who completed their study within a 9-year period.
2. Includes domestic onshore students aged 15 and over only.
3. Includes Table A (Public universities) and Table B (Private universities that receive Commonwealth assistance) providers only.
4. The data collection method for Higher Education student data changed in 2020, including changes to detailed disability categories.
5. From July 2024 release, small discrepancies with previous releases are due to the adoption of new student ID concordances, exclusion of students with an 'unknown' citizenship, and revision of the methodology in calculating completion rates.
6. The HESC are administrative data reported to the Department of Education by higher education providers. Higher education providers have different methods by which the data are collected from students, which may include at the time of commencement and/or the time of accessing support services and/or annually collected upon reenrolment. Changes in data reported by higher education providers can be influenced by changes in the data collection behaviours and processes as well as real world change.