Tertiary Student Finance Scheme - Publicly-funded Programmes Summary of Statistics

Academic Year 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10
(As at 30.6.2010)
No. of eligible students 78 270 80 682 82 921
No. of applications
- received
- with results issued

32 413
32 413

30 946
30 946

31 932
31 921
No. of applicants
- with assistance paid
- with grant paid
- offered loan
- with loan paid

28 431
28 279
28 326
14 438

27 472
27 336
27 348
11 982

28 393
28 279
28 277
11 178
Average amount paid^
- assistance
- grant
- loan

$39,989
$28,138
$23,632

$39,017
$28,641
$24,114

$39,085
$29,321
$25,099
Total amount of
- grant paid^
- loan offered
- loan paid^

$795.72m
$675.39m
$341.19m

$782.94m
$671.67m
$288.93m

$829.18m
$728.00m
$280.56m

^ Approved grant and/or loan will be paid in one or more than one instalment(s). The amount of assistance paid in 2009/10 shown in the table above does not reflect the full amount of assistance paid in the year until the 2009/10 application cycle ends.