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UAC's Student Lifestyle and Learning Report 2025

01 Apr 2025

2024 Student Lifestyle and Learning Report cover: five students in casual clothes stand, facing the camera and smiling

Executive summary

UAC’s fifth Student Lifestyle and Learning Report reveals new insights and key trends from almost 70,000 school leavers over five years, offering a comprehensive look at the interests, passions and concerns of students from across Australia.

With each unique student cohort over the years, we’ve reported what they want and need as they prepare to take their next steps after high school.

This year’s respondents – almost 18,000 teenagers from across the country – tell us what they really think about HECS, housing affordability and the issues that will influence their vote as Australia heads into a federal election in 2025, among other critical issues.

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