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The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide’s 2023 Annual Report has been tabled in South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Parliament today.

Over the past year the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ has worked for the benefit of its communities, the State, current and future students, and generations to come, reaching milestones including the passage of legislation to establish a new Adelaide ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and the Council endorsing a sustainability strategy.

Legislation prevents South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s universities from releasing their full annual reports until they are tabled in Parliament.

2023 financial results

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide continued to demonstrate sound financial management during 2023 and has reported a positive financial result.

In 2023, the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ reported a surplus of $39.5 million, compared with a surplus of $12.5 million in 2022, and included several one-off funding items:

• $15 million of "restricted use" donations and bequests which have been added to the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Endowment Fund;
• $13 million of unrealised gains on the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s tied Endowment Fund; and
• $18 million in integration costs which were incurred to establish Adelaide ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ reports a 2023 underlying surplus of $5.3 million, compared to $13.5 million in 2022.

The underlying surplus represents revenues received by the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ that are not required to be directed to specific purposes, including student revenue, research training program and research support program funding and royalty income.

Key statistics

There were 22,840 students (Equivalent Full-Time Student Load or EFTSL) enrolled in full-time study last year, including 186 (EFTSL) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and 7,129 international students (EFTSL) from 115 countries and regions.

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s first Giving Day was held on 31 October with more than 500 individual donors raising more than $440,000 to support students, researchers and the wider community; more than $30 million was received in philanthropic donations across the course of the year.

Eight researchers were awarded more than $7.5 million in the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Research Council Future Fellowships, with the highest application success rate in the Group of Eight.

ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ research attracted external income in excess of $260 million, including $121 million in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n government competitive research grants.

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s 2023 Annual Report and Financial Statements are available on the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ website.