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Offshore · August 2026

Visa grant rates, courses for international students and occupation lists.

Courses, grants, occupations, nomination — sourced, dated, free.

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  • Sourced from the Department of Home Affairs
  • Every figure dated and linked
  • Updated monthly

Australia student visa grant rate · Latest

Higher Education, VET and ELICOS combined · onshore and offshore · excludes Iraq, Syria and Lebanon

Sector Intelligence

Grant Rates by Sector

Visa grant rate by education sector for August 2026. Sourced from DHA monthly decision data.

ELICOS

Offshore — August 2026

65.5%

Up 1.7 points from July 2026

VET

Offshore — August 2026

26.1%

Down 0.4 points from July 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION

Offshore — August 2026

65.9%

Up 2.9 points from July 2026

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Country Intelligence

Country approvals and refusal rates

Trailing 3 months: June 2026 – August 2026 · Offshore · Higher Education, VET and ELICOS combined

Approvals by country

Saudi Arabia
98%312 decided · 305 approved
Japan
97%902 decided · 877 approved
Switzerland
97%100 decided · 97 approved
Singapore
97%392 decided · 379 approved
Canada
95%154 decided · 147 approved
Spain
95%367 decided · 350 approved
Taiwan
93%540 decided · 503 approved
China
93%12,335 decided · 11,458 approved
Germany, Fed Republic of
93%126 decided · 117 approved
Malaysia
93%588 decided · 545 approved
United States of America
92%301 decided · 278 approved
Hong Kong
91%351 decided · 320 approved
Cambodia
89%240 decided · 214 approved
Vietnam
89%1,122 decided · 997 approved
South Korea
89%654 decided · 580 approved

Refusal rate by country

Kenya
87%1,763 decided
Nepal
84%5,255 decided
Nigeria
84%232 decided
Turkiye
82%296 decided
Bangladesh
79%2,550 decided
Philippines
71%1,568 decided
Egypt
71%104 decided
Bhutan
70%1,058 decided
Zimbabwe
63%159 decided
India
56%7,799 decided
Pakistan
42%1,212 decided
Colombia
41%570 decided
Thailand
36%355 decided
Fiji
34%164 decided
Sri Lanka
32%1,260 decided

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Historical rates describe past application populations. They do not predict any individual application.

Source: DHA monthly student visa statistics

Official rule explanation — Subclass 500

Order of processing under Ministerial Direction 115

Ministerial Direction 115 sets the order in which the Department of Home Affairs allocates student visa applications for processing. It does not cap visas and it does not set the criteria for granting or refusing one.

The timeframes below are the Department's published aims for commencing processing. Commencing processing is not the same as reaching a decision, and a decision may be a grant or a refusal. StudyVisaHub cannot state how long any individual application will take, and does not attempt to. As the Department states: “The priority level does not affect whether your visa is granted or refused.”

  • Priority 1

    Aims to commence processing within 1–4 weeks

    Applications the Direction places in the first priority group, including school, ELICOS, postgraduate research, foreign-affairs and defence-sponsored applicants, and Pacific and Timor-Leste applicants — and applications to providers below 80% of the allocation stated in the Direction.

  • Priority 2

    Aims to commence processing within 5–8 weeks

    Applications to higher education and vocational providers at or above 80%, and up to 115%, of the allocation stated in the Direction.

  • Priority 3

    Aims to commence processing within 9–12 weeks

    Applications to providers that have exceeded the allocation stated in the Direction by more than 15%.

Responsible authority: Department of Home Affairs. Effective from: 14 November 2025 (applies to applications lodged on or after that date; applications lodged earlier fall under the previous Direction). Source checked: 30 August 2026. Open official source

Scope and limitations: the allocation percentages are thresholds set in the Direction. StudyVisaHub does not publish which tier any named provider currently sits in, and does not publish a predicted wait for any provider or applicant. The allocation year referenced by the Direction is pending reconfirmation against the Department's current publication.

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Australia publishes 673 occupations with recognised training pathways. We've matched every one of them to the courses international students can actually enrol in, and to the lists each state nominates from, so you can trace a course to an occupation to a state in one go.

673

occupations with published training pathways, matched to course fields and state nomination lists.

Source: Jobs and Skills Australia, Training Occupation Pathways v1.0, April 2026.

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General information only — not migration advice. StudyVisaHub provides general information sourced from publicly available Australian Government publications. For decisions about a visa application, consult a Registered Migration Agent (MARN) or an Australian immigration lawyer.