Cricos Mate · Visa intelligence
Student visa grant rates
See which countries get student visas approved most often — plain language, official Home Affairs numbers. No login needed.
All sectors (2025+)
78.7%
560,359 grants from 712,395 decisions
Typical agency view
73.1%
Higher education · applying from overseas · primary applicant · latest month
Countries tracked
204
514,888 data cells in warehouse
How to use this in 3 steps
Step 1
Pick your lens
Choose financial year, sector, offshore/onshore, and applicant type in the filters at the top.
Step 2
Read grant rate
Grant rate = grants ÷ (grants + refusals). It shows historical outcomes for that slice — not a promise for one client.
Step 3
Act on buckets
Scale = recruit with confidence. Watch = big but weak — screen harder. Grow = test small. Thin = deprioritise. Download a PDF briefing from the desk when you are ready.
Live snapshot (agency default lens)
21,225 applications · 73.1% average grant rate · 69 countries
Scale
8
Large + strong rate
Watch
6
Large + weaker rate
Grow
44
Smaller + strong rate
Thin
11
Smaller + weaker rate
Top citizenship markets
Biggest markets for offshore primary Higher Education right now.
- China
5,055 applications
94.7% granted · 21.6% above average
- India
2,993 applications
46.1% granted · 27.0% below average
- Nepal
1,247 applications
14.2% granted · 58.9% below average
- Bangladesh
1,041 applications
24.9% granted · 48.3% below average
- Japan
840 applications
98.6% granted · 25.4% above average
- Indonesia
708 applications
88.3% granted · 15.1% above average
Sector mix (overall)
Share of outcomes by education sector — Higher Ed, VET, ELICOS, and more.
- Higher Education68.4% granted13,414 applications
- Non-Award98.8% granted3,041 applications
- Independent ELICOS80.5% granted1,843 applications
- Vocational Education and Training29.9% granted1,374 applications
- Schools91.3% granted1,048 applications
- Postgraduate Research88.7% granted497 applications
- Foreign Affairs or Defence100.0% granted224 applications
Start here
Australia desk
Country buckets, top markets, sector charts, year compare, and a one-click PDF briefing.
Visual
Citizenship map
See where your markets sit on a world view. Bubble size = applications. Colour = grant rate.
Table
Country rankings
Sort and filter every country. Download PDF or export CSV for team briefings.
New
Country compare
Pick two citizenships under the same lens — grant rate, volume, and monthly pattern side by side.
Good to know
Grant rate
Percentage of visa decisions that were grants (not refusals) in the selected filters. Calculated as grants ÷ (grants + refusals).
Small-n warning
Countries with fewer than 50 applications can show 100% or 0% rates that look dramatic but are not reliable for strategy.
Data source
Department of Home Affairs student visa program (BP0015) via data.gov.au. Calendar 2025 onward. Latest financial year is provisional.