One in four humanities students in Australia to take more than 25 years to pay off student loans, Treasury finds

Job-ready graduates program will also leave almost two-thirds of humanities and creative arts students with debts exceeding $50,000 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast One in four humanities students will take more than 25 years to fully repay their student loans because of Morrison government changes to university fees, newly public Treasury modelling reveals. The job-ready graduates program, introduced in 2021 under the former prime minister Scott Morrison, will also leave almost two-thirds of humanities and creative arts students saddled with debts exceeding $50,000. Treasury also found median repayment times for creative arts graduates increasing from 14 to 17 years because of the scheme – which critics point out has been in place longer under Labor than under the last Coalition government. The scheme was introduced to incentivise students to take degrees such as science, nursing, education and IT, and disincentivise humanities, law and creative arts degrees by significantly increasing fees. The university sector has said the scheme has not changed students’ choices. The modelling, released to Guardi

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