UG - undergraduate PG - postgraduate MD – Doctor of Medicine
Excludes all offshore programs, including UQ Ochsner and Monash Malaysia.
Includes medical students on state health department bonded medical scholarships.
Source: Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand Inc
Table 2.6 shows the number and types of places available at each university in 2015 for commencing students. Just over three-quarters of all university places for commencing students were Commonwealth supported. Of the 3,777 commencing medical students in 2015, 2,952 students or 78.2% were in these Commonwealth-supported places.
Table 2.6: Commencing medical students by type of student place and university, 2015
Commonwealth supported places
Fee-paying places
University
Domestic
International(a)
Other(b)
Total
Adelaide
120
1
28
0
149
ANU
86
0
1
0
87
Bond
0
100
0
0
100
Deakin
134
0
3
0
137
Flinders
126
0
17
28
171
Griffith
150
0
5
0
155
James Cook
170
0
30
0
200
Melbourne MD(c)
255
55
52
0
362
Monash PG
80
0
10
0
90
Monash UG
247
0
63
0
310
Newcastle/UNE
173
0
27
0
200
Notre Dame Sydney
60
62
0
0
122
Notre Dame Fremantle
101
9
0
0
110
Queensland(c)
327
0
92
0
419
Sydney
244
1
76
0
321
Tasmania
97
0
22
0
119
UNSW
187
1
84
0
272
UWA MD(c)
211
0
31
0
242
UWS
108
1
20
0
129
Wollongong
76
0
6
0
82
Total
2,952
230
567
28
3,777
UG - undergraduate PG - postgraduate MD – Doctor of Medicine
Excludes all offshore programs, including UQ Ochsner and Monash Malaysia.
Includes medical students on state health department bonded medical scholarships.
University of Melbourne, University of Queensland and University of Western Australia now only admit students to their MD programs.
Source: Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand Inc
Table 2.7 provides further information on recent trends in the proportion of student places.
In 2015, the majority of Commonwealth-supported students occupied HECS-HELP only places (9,692 places or 72.5% of Commonwealth-supported places), whereas 3,672 or 27.5% of Commonwealth-supported students had a return of service obligation under either the MRBS Scheme or BMP Scheme, in addition to contributing to the cost of their education under HECS-HELP.
Twelve years after the commencement of the BMP Scheme, there were 3,251 students in BMP Scheme places. This was a decrease from 2014 by 76 students. However, from 2011 to 2015 the number of students supported through this scheme has been at the same levels.
The number of students in the MRBS Scheme slightly decreased from 2014 by 16 students. Overall, the number of students in MRBS Scheme places remained relatively constant since 2011, with 459 students participating in this scheme in 2011 to 421 students in 2015. The number of MRBS Scheme students as a proportion of all student places decreased from 2.8% in 2011 to 2.5% in 2015. The number of BMP Scheme students as a proportion of all students also remained constant from 18.9% in 2011 to 19.2% in 2015.
The proportion of domestic fee-paying students increased slightly from 2011 (5.0% of all students in 2011 to 5.6% of all students in 2015).
Over the last five years, the absolute number of international fee-paying students plateaued, but the proportion decreased from 15.4% in 2011 to 14.9% in 2015.
Table 2.7: Medical students by type of student place: Number and proportion of places, 2011-2015
Type of student place
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Medical students
Commonwealth-supported
13,016
13,289
13,315
13,351
13,364
HECS-HELP only
9,435
9,538
9,621
9,587
9,692
BMP Scheme
3,122
3,282
3,278
3,327
3,251
MRBS Scheme
459
469
416
437
421
Fee-paying
3,364
3,492
3,598
3,389
3,487
Domestic
829
801
871
936
952
International(a)
2,535
2,691
2,727
2,453
2,535
Other(b)
111
87
81
97
108
Total
16,491
16,868
16,994
16,837
16,959
Proportion of places (%)
Commonwealth-supported
78.9
78.8
78.4
79.3
78.8
HECS-HELP only
57.2
56.5
56.6
56.9
57.1
BMP Scheme
18.9
19.5
19.3
19.8
19.2
MRBS Scheme
2.8
2.8
2.4
2.6
2.5
Fee-paying
20.4
20.7
21.2
20.1
20.6
Domestic
5.0
4.7
5.1
5.6
5.6
International(a)
15.4
16.0
16.0
14.6
14.9
Other(b)
0.7
0.5
0.5
0.6
0.6
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
Excludes all offshore programs, including UQ Ochsner and Monash Malaysia.
Includes medical students on state health department bonded medical scholarships.
Source: Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand Inc
