Australia Caps International Student Enrollment

Australia will limit how many international students it accepts in an effort to reduce migration to pre-pandemic levels.

One of the world’s largest international education markets, Australia hosted about 717,500 international students this year (in a country with a population of 26 million); in 2025, the government is capping enrollment at 270,000.

Each higher education institution in the country will receive a directive on how many students it’s allowed to host, with the most stringent restrictions placed on vocational and training providers, whose enrollments have grown by 50 percent since before the pandemic. Enrollment at traditional universities grew by 10 percent in the same time frame, according to the BBC.