IRU Statistics

11% of all research publications

in Australia during the last decade have been produced by IRU members.

In the last decade, IRU members have produced 15% of Australia’s highly cited and 12% of very highly cited publications in Social Sciences and Humanities.

In the last decade, IRU members have produced 14% of Australia’s highly cited and 14% of very highly cited publications in Life and Earth Sciences.

IRU members earn $489 million in research income representing 7% of all university research income.

We enrol 24% of Australia’s low SES undergraduate students.

IRU members enrolled 43,002 international students across all course levels in 2021.

2.4% of IRU students are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

We educate 17.3%

Of Australia’s undergraduate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

We educated

218,141 students

across all course levels in

2021

that’s

14.7%

of the sector

Our Universities

Rank in the top 500

universities in the world
(Times Higher Education Rankings 2020)