Education and training: Census
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Education and training: Census
Educational attendance
- 484,185 people were attending preschool.
- 2,075,224 people were attending primary school.
- 1,629,624 people were attending secondary school.
- 1,185,450 people were attending university or other higher education.
- 601,901 people were attending vocational education (including TAFE and private training providers).
Qualifications
- Over 11 million (11,511,655) people in Australia reported having a non-school (vocational or tertiary) qualification, a 19.8 per cent increase since 2016.
- 5.5 million people (5,464,631) reported having a bachelor degree or higher, a 30.7 per cent increase since 2016.
- 4 million people (3,962,732) reported having certificate I to IV, a 10.6 per cent increase since 2016.
- The most common field of study for non-school qualifications was Business and Management (1,144,084 people), followed by Teacher Education (836,410), and Nursing (608,276).
- The fastest growing qualifications were Security Science, now 5,805 people qualified (up 460 per cent since 2016), followed by Artificial Intelligence, now 630 people (up 204 per cent), and Southern Asian Languages, now 670 people (up 123 per cent).