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What is keeping one more student worth?
An illustrative estimate of the teaching revenue your institution keeps when more first-year students stay. Defaults come from published Australian Government data; change any of them to match your institution.
Illustrative estimate
Results
- Students retained each year
- 50
- Teaching revenue kept
- $1,725,000Gross, before teaching costs
- Per retained student
- $34,500
- Attrition after
- 12% → 11%
This is an illustrative estimate, not a forecast or guarantee. It uses national averages from published Australian Government data and assumptions you can change. Actual results depend on your students, your support services and how outreach is delivered.
How it’s calculated
Students retained = commencing students × improvement. Revenue kept = students retained × annual revenue per student × years of study kept. The improvement can’t exceed the attrition rate. Figures are teaching revenue only, before costs, and don’t include the value to students themselves.
Evidence on outreach
- Victorian Government, Supporting VET students: behavioural insights case study (2018)
- Bettinger and Baker (2014), The effects of student coaching, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 36(1)
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