Join 35k+ to discover what Australian universities and degrees actually pay off.

See where people who studied your degree started, and what they're earning now.

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Every card is one real person: where they started, and where they are now.

Preview of the Return on Uni database: filters for degree type, course, university, graduation year and student type, above graduate cards showing each person's first role, starting salary, current role and current salary.
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Results no university can buy.

Universities can't pay to appear, rank higher or change their results. Every number comes from grads who actually studied there.

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Why Return on Uni exists

$100,000. That's roughly what your university degree is going to cost you. That's more money than you've spent on everything else in your life. Combined.

And here's the crazy part: you get more information buying a second-hand Corolla than you do choosing a degree.

Think about it. Before you buy a car, you check the kilometres, the service history, what others paid. Before you pick a uni, you get… a ranking. A brochure. A photo of students laughing on a lawn.

What nobody shows you is the stuff that actually matters. How long until you get a job in your field? What does that first job pay? What are people from this degree at this uni making after 5 years?

Some of that data exists. But it's scattered, out of date, and buried where no-one is ever going to find it.

This isn't about chasing the biggest salary. Some of the best careers pay badly.

But you should know before you sign up, not three years and a student loan later. Whether you're taking on HECS-HELP or paying international student fees, you deserve to see what you're actually buying.

Return on Uni is real data from real graduates. What they studied. Where. How long it took to get a job. What it paid. No uni marketing. No guesswork. Just people who've lived it, telling you how it went.

Free for everyone. And every person who shares makes the picture clearer for the next student trying not to make a $100k mistake.

RECEIPT 1 x Uni degree $100,000 Job in your field?? Time to get there?? Starting salary?? Salary now?? the part nobody tells you

Find out which universities and degrees actually pay off.

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How we do it: we ASK

Transparency around uni outcomes, built one honest answer at a time.

Ask

We ask Australian graduates what their degree actually led to: on the street, on camera and through this form.

Show

We show students the truth, for free: real outcomes, course by course and uni by uni.

Keep

We keep universities and government accountable for being open about where degrees really lead.