Essentials

Student profile

Peer cohort

Admissions in 2020

The table below gives an indication of the likely peer cohort for new students at CDU. It provides data on all students who commenced undergraduate study and remained enrolled past the census date in Semester 1, 2019 including those admitted through all offer rounds, across all Australian campuses, and international students studying in Australia.

Applicant background (Semester one intake 2019) No. of students % of all students

A. Higher education study
(includes a bridging or enabling course)

 1600 55%
B. Vocational education and training (VET) study 332 11.41%

C. Work and life experience
(Admitted on the basis of previous achievement, not in the other three categories)

 392 13.48%
D. Recent secondary education
  • Admitted solely on the basis of ATAR
    (regardless of whether this includes the consideration of adjustment factors such as equity or ATAR adjustments)

 

152

 

5.23%
  • Admitted where both ATAR and additional criteria were considered
    (e.g. portfolio, audition, extra offer conditional on minimum ATAR)

12

 0.41%
  • Admitted on the basis of other criteria only and ATAR was not a factor
    (e.g. Special consideration, audition alone, schools recommendation scheme with no minimum ATAR requirement)
 8 0.27%
International students 413 14.20%
All students 2909 100%

Notes
"<5" - the number of students is less than 5
N/A - Students not accepted in this category
N/P - Not published: the number is hidden to prevent calculation of numbers in cells with less than five students.