Hey guys, talk to us. What’s happening? What’s going on? Do we to hug it out, talk about our feelings, work through every $4 special at uni bar?
Because university drop out rates are soaring, according to The Australian.
The University of Tasmania is coming in first for drop out rates (almost one in three), followed by Swinburne University (28%), Charles Darwin University (26%), Central Queensland University (25%), and the University of Southern Queensland (24.73%).
Experts say it’s all down to growing enrolment, which comes from the new demand-driven system introduced in 2012. Basically: if the uni thinks you’re qualified, you’re enrolled, which turns out might not be quite the same as being actually qualified.
“It’s students who did not get into their university or course of first preference and who have gone in with marginal levels of commitment,” University of Melbourne professor Richard James told The Australian, while casually mentioning that these attrition rates were pretty grim for “certain institutions.”
We’re seeing the highest attrition rate in almost a decade, since 2005. These rates, BTW, are for 2013 – last year’s are not yet available.
Back in May this year, a study was released that showed one in five students will drop out in their first year of study.
Of those unis, Central Queensland came in second for highest first year drop-out rates, Charles Darwin in third, and Southern Queensland in fourth.
Weirdly enough, although Tasmania was the second highest state for first year drop-out rates (getting beat by Northern Territory), the University of Tasmania didn’t make the top ten. 
via The Australian
