Students

People in the Institute who saw the School of General Studies as a threat must have been alarmed by the growth of undergraduate numbers in the years following amalgamation. In 1961 there were 948 undergraduates, comprising 497 inherited from Canberra University College and 451 new students. By 1965 total undergraduate enrolments had swelled to 2387, 977 of whom were new enrolments. These figures gave the University an undergraduate growth rate about three times the national average. Over the next decade, numbers continued to rise steadily, though not so sharply. By 1976 they had reached 5058, more than double the 1965