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

Academic Year 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 (As at 31.12.2011) No. of eligible students 82 921 81 975 79 028 No. of applications - received - with results issued 31 932 31 932 31 185 31 185 28 933 23 682 No. of applicants - with assistance paid - with grant paid - offered loan - with loan paid 28 406 28 289 28 290 11 229 28 003 27 901 27 869 10 114 20 688 20 653 21 912 5 989 Average amount paid^ - assistance - grant - loan $39,138 $29,336 $25,101 $38,888 $29,752 $25,594 $37,414 $30,607 $23,693 Total amount of - grant paid^ - loan offered - loan paid^ $829.90m $728.40m $281.86m $830.12m $725.07m $258.86m $632.12m $677.57m $141.90m

^ Approved grant and/or loan will be paid in one or more than one instalment(s). The amount of assistance paid in 2011/12 shown in the table above does not reflect the full amount of assistance paid in the year until the 2011/12 application cycle ends.