UTS at a glance

1988

year established as a university.

51,038

student enrolments in 2024, including 13,807 international students.

537

total courses in 2024 (with enrolled students).

2,393

total subjects (with enrolled students).

13,674

student completions in 2024.

295,691

alumni (not including some graduates from antecedent institutions).

4264

total number of staff (full-time equivalent) in 2024, including casual staff.

77.5%

of UTS Australian-resident undergraduates were in full-time employment four months after completion, and 13.3% were in further full-time study.

224

exchange agreements, enabling students to study on exchange in 41 countries.

Student enrolments

Student enrolments by course type 2021–2024

COURSE TYPE 2021 2022 2023 2024
Higher degree research 2324 2253 2287 2380
Postgraduate coursework 9775 9528 12,047 13,205
Undergraduate and non‑award 33,115 32,802 33,578 35,453
TOTAL 45,214 44,583 47,912 51,038
Equivalent full-time student load (EFTSL) 34,349 33,339 35,676 39,013

 

Data for 2024 is at February 2025

Note: These numbers include students who are enrolled on a full-time or part-time basis. The equivalent full-time student load (EFTSL) is smaller than the total enrolments because the equivalent full-time load of part-time students is less than 1.

Student enrolments by diversity indicators 2022–2024

DIVERSITY INDICATOR 2022 2023 2024
Female 50% 50% 50%
Under 25 70% 69% 70%
Language other than English spoken at home 42% 44% 43%
Born outside Australia 43% 45% 44%
Indigenous 1% 1% 1%
Disability 8% 8% 8%

 

Data for 2024 is at February 2025

Student enrolments by faculty and course type 2024

ENROLLED FACULTY HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE COURSEWORK UNDERGRADUATE AND NON-AWARD TOTAL
Arts and Social Sciences 160 1175 3663 4998
Business 139 3027 7005 10,171
Design, Architecture and Building 110 805 3908 4823
Engineering and Information Technology 1201 2948 9755 13,904
Graduate School of Health 35 1387 186 1608
Health 227 1593 3437 5257
Law 62 1100 3182 4344
Science 329 706 3121 4156
TD School 48 463 7 518
Provost 69 1 1189 1259
TOTAL 2380 13,205 35,453 51,038

 

As at February 2025

International student enrolments by faculty and course type 2024

ENROLLED FACULTY HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH POSTGRADUATE COURSEWORK UNDERGRADUATE AND NON-AWARD TOTAL
Arts and Social Sciences 35 389 466 890
Business 63 2153 1858 4074
Design, Architecture and Building 25 153 519 697
Engineering and Information Technology 786 2578 1692 5056
Graduate School of Health 2 196 1 199
Health 51 2 284 337
Law 6 221 44 271
Science 115 380 232 727
TD School 16 351 0 367
Provost 16 0 1173 1189
Total 1115 6423 6269 13,807

 

As at February 2025

Enrolments by campus 2024

CAMPUS 2024
Australia 49,979
Overseas 1059
TOTAL 51,038

 

As at February 2025

Completions

UTS completions by course type 2021–2024

COURSE TYPE 2021 2022 2023 2024
RESEARCH HIGHER DEGREE
Doctorate research 361 328 410 341
Doctorate research and coursework 1 2 2 2
Masters by research 27 40 27 40
SUB-TOTAL 389 370 439 383

COURSEWORK POSTGRADUATE
Higher degree 3015 2436 2438 3025
Other postgraduate award 1176 1143 1267 1625
Cross-institutional postgraduate 2 3 4 3
SUB-TOTAL 4193 3582 3709 4653

COURSEWORK UNDERGRADUATE
Bachelors degree 5851 6167 5945 5340
Bachelors combined degree 747 678 821 846
Bachelors graduate entry 0 0 1 0
Bachelors honours 215 263 138 173
Bachelors combined honours 127 144 129 189
Bachelors honours embedded 543 729 673 884
Sub-degree 131 83 99 78
Other undergraduate award 139 61 616 666
Cross-institutional undergraduate 6 4 9 8
SUB-TOTAL 7759 8129 8431 8184

NON-AWARD
Non-award 54 41 452 410
Enabling 2 21 0 44
Sub-total 56 62 452 454
TOTAL 12,397 12,143 13,031 13,674

 

2024 data as at March 2025

Staff

Staff FTE 2021–2024

STAFF (FTE) 2021 2022 2023 2024
Academic 1951 1844 1930 2014
Professional 1906 1992 2168 2249
TOTAL 3857 3836 4098 4264

 

FTE is full-time equivalent, including casual staff. Data as at 31 March 2024.