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The Tuition Price Isn’t the Whole Bill: Extra Costs in Australia’s CRICOS Database

Oct. 7, 2026

A Diploma of Nursing listed at A$31,320 in tuition has an estimated total course cost of A$38,165 in Australia’s October 2026 CRICOS dataset. The difference is A$6,845 recorded in the Non Tuition Fee field.

A Certificate III in Commercial Cookery provides another example: A$16,890 in tuition becomes A$22,277 when the recorded non-tuition amount is included. That is approximately 31.9% above the tuition figure alone.

These are course-level …

Beyond AI: 8 Specialised Australian Degrees Worth Exploring

Oct. 3, 2026

Biomedical instrumentation, energy-market analysis and immersive environments are three very different reasons to study technology. Australia’s October 2026 CRICOS course dataset contains degree options addressing all three, alongside robotics, cybersecurity, bioinformatics and geospatial science.

CRICOS.net selected eight programmes whose specialisations can be explained through official provider information. They include an associate degree, bachelor-level qualifications and coursework master’s degrees. The purpose is to compare concrete study options beyond qualifications …

CRICOS October 2026 Update: 125 Courses Added, 217 Removed and 3,154 Records Changed

Oct. 2, 2026

The October 2026 CRICOS course dataset contained 25,971 valid provider-course records, 92 fewer than September. Behind that modest net decline, 125 registrations appeared, 217 were no longer present and 3,154 continuing records changed in at least one exported field.

October’s largest shift was the scale of updates to continuing records. Tuition Fee changed in 2,680 records, compared with 627 in the preceding August–September comparison. Fee fields dominated the …

139 New CRICOS Courses in September 2026: Levels, Fields and Notable Programs

Sept. 14, 2026

CRICOS.net’s comparison of the August and September 2026 course datasets identified 139 newly appearing provider-course registrations. Certificate III led the qualification levels with 29 additions, followed by coursework master’s degrees with 27 and diplomas with 26. Together, these three levels accounted for 59.0% of additions.

Architecture and Building was the largest primary field, also with 29 registrations. Five newly appearing course titles explicitly mentioned Artificial Intelligence, spanning business, …

Largest CRICOS Tuition Fee Changes in September 2026

Sept. 13, 2026

CRICOS.net’s comparison of the August and September 2026 course datasets identified 627 continuing course records with changed Tuition Fee values. Of these, 604 increased, 18 decreased and five previously blank fields received a value.

The largest published tuition increase was A$113,198 for St Paul’s Grammar School Penrith Ltd’s Primary course, CRICOS code 041263D. The largest decrease was A$88,064 for the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program registered under The …

September 2026 CRICOS Course Removals: 84% Were Concentrated at UniSA and the University of Adelaide

Sept. 9, 2026

Of the 814 provider-course records that disappeared between the August and September 2026 CRICOS datasets, 685 belonged to two institutions: the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide.

UniSA accounted for 344 removed records, while the University of Adelaide accounted for 341. Together, the two foundation institutions of Adelaide University represented 84.2% of all removals identified in the monthly comparison.

This concentration changes how the …