65.7% ▲ +16.8%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 56.2%
- 2016: 60.7%
- 2021: 65.7%
Share of people whose highest year of school is Year 12 or equivalent.
Brisbane · Urban Centre
Education & Qualifications in Brisbane
How far people went at school, the qualifications they hold and what they studied.
Management and commerce degrees are the most common qualification in Brisbane, with 21.1% of people holding one. This is a highly educated area where a large number of residents have completed secondary school and university degrees. The level of qualification has climbed steadily over the last decade.
Schooling
Highest year of school completed.
Schooling levels are well above the national figure, with 65.7% of people completing Year 12. This result is among the highest for similar areas and has risen by 9.5 percentage points since 2011.
Highest year of school
View on map →In Brisbane, Year 12 is the majority at 70%; Year 10 is next at 17%.
Qualifications
Post-school qualifications and degrees.
Adults with a bachelor degree or higher make up 28.3% of the population, which is well above the Queensland figure. This proportion rose 7.2 percentage points since 2011, placing Brisbane among the most qualified areas of its kind.
28.3% ▲ +34.3%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 28.3%
Share of people aged 15+ whose highest qualification is a bachelor degree or above (incl. graduate and postgraduate).
Highest qualification level
View on map →Brisbane splits fairly evenly between Bachelor degree (34%) and Certificate III / IV (29%), with Advanced diploma / diploma at 18%.
Field of study
What people studied.
The most common fields of study are management and commerce at 21.1%, followed by engineering at 13.5% and society and culture at 12.9%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Education & Qualifications in Brisbane [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL301001/brisbane/topic/education