{"id":636305,"date":"2026-04-28T13:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636305\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:35:22","slug":"how-many-international-students-are-studying-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636305\/","title":{"rendered":"How many international students are studying in Australia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International student head count for students studying on a student visa<\/p>\n<p>The number of international students studying in Australia totalled 845,933 for the January-December 2025 period, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.education.gov.au\/international-education-data-and-research\/international-student-numbers-country-state-and-territory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data<\/a> from the Department of Education. There was a change of -1% compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"838\" height=\"528\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269832\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aus-graph-1.png\"\/>Source: Department of Education<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 sending markets for international students in Australia in 2025<\/p>\n<p>China remains the top sending market for international students in Australia, followed by India and Nepal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"836\" height=\"528\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269834\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aus-graph-2.png\"\/>Source: Department of Education<\/p>\n<p>Economic value of international students in Australia<\/p>\n<p>All expenditure by international students studying in Australia is recorded as an export in the Balance of Payments statistics published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/statistics\/detailed-methodology-information\/information-papers\/recording-international-students-balance-payments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Bureau of Statistics<\/a>. This includes expenditure on tuition fees, food, accommodation, local transport, health services, and more, by international students while in Australia. In the 2024-25 financial year, this expenditure contributed AUD $53.6 billion to Australia\u2019s exports (equivalent to USD $38.38 billion)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"834\" height=\"480\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269836\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aus-graph-3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Number of international graduates in the post-higher education work stream<\/p>\n<p>The Temporary Graduate Visa is for international students who have recently graduated with a degree from an Australian institution. It lets them live, work and study in Australia temporarily after they have finished their studies.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2024-25 program year, the Department granted 126,348 Temporary Graduate Visas, an increase of 14.4% when compared with the same period in 2023-24 (110,468 visas granted).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"814\" height=\"528\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269837\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aus-graph-4.png\"\/>Source: Department of Home Affairs<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homeaffairs.gov.au\/research-and-stats\/files\/student-temporary-grad-program-report-june-2025.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> published by the Department of Home Affairs in the 2024-25 program year, the top five source countries for TGV grants were: India, Nepal, China, Philippines and Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International student head count for students studying on a student visa The number of international students studying in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,2458,1735,44],"class_list":["post-636305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-data","tag-international-students","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}