{
  "query": {
    "country": "AU",
    "cycle": "first",
    "student_group": "home",
    "study_mode": "full-time",
    "field": "law_commerce",
    "commenced": "after_2020",
    "year": 2026
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "AUD",
    "unit": "per EFTSL (one full-time year of study), maximum student contribution",
    "value": 17399,
    "measure": "average",
    "median": null,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2026-01-01",
    "to": "2026-12-31"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "official_statistic",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "average",
    "reference_period": "2026",
    "note": "This is the maximum a university may charge a Commonwealth supported student for one full-time year (EFTSL), not what any one student paid: universities can charge less and most students defer the fee through a HECS-HELP loan. No field was given, so the first group (Law, accounting, administration, economics or commerce, the highest-priced humanities and business cluster) is shown; every field's amount is in extra.all_fields."
  },
  "as_of": "2026-11-04T01:01:07.494Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "au-tuition",
    "name": "Commonwealth supported places: maximum student contribution amounts per EFTSL (Department of Education indexed rates)",
    "publisher": "Australian Government Department of Education",
    "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. The Department of Education copyright page (https://www.education.gov.au/using-site/copyright, read 29 Oct 2026) says content on the site is under CC BY 4.0, except third-party content, logos, the Coat of Arms, trade-marked material and images.",
    "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution": "Source: Australian Government Department of Education, Indexed rates (https://www.education.gov.au/higher-education-publications/indexed-rates). © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. Amounts selected and restated by ProofPrice; this does not imply endorsement by the Department.",
    "url": "https://www.education.gov.au/higher-education-publications/indexed-rates"
  },
  "method": "Australia tuition: the maximum student contribution the Department of Education publishes for Commonwealth supported places, per EFTSL (one full-time year), for the chosen field group and start-date group, in Australian dollars for the calendar year. We pass on the published amount and its year; it is a statutory maximum (a posted figure), not payments by sampled students, with no range or sample size.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In 2026, the maximum student contribution for Law, accounting, administration, economics or commerce (funding cluster 1) for students who started on or after 1 January 2021 in a Commonwealth supported place in Australia is 17,399 AUD per full-time year. Official average published by Australian Government Department of Education for 2026.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "place": "Australia",
    "academic_year": "2026",
    "field_group": "law_commerce",
    "field_label": "Law, accounting, administration, economics or commerce",
    "funding_cluster": 1,
    "commenced": "after_2020",
    "fee_basis": "maximum student contribution per EFTSL, Commonwealth supported places, calendar year",
    "change_on_previous_year": null,
    "all_fields": [
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        "field_group": "law_commerce",
        "label": "Law, accounting, administration, economics or commerce",
        "funding_cluster": 1,
        "value": 17399
      },
      {
        "field_group": "society_culture",
        "label": "Society and culture (humanities, social sciences) and communications",
        "funding_cluster": 1,
        "value": 17399
      },
      {
        "field_group": "education_english_maths",
        "label": "Education, postgraduate clinical psychology, English, mathematics or statistics",
        "funding_cluster": 2,
        "value": 4738
      },
      {
        "field_group": "health_built_computing",
        "label": "Allied health, other health, built environment or computing",
        "funding_cluster": 2,
        "value": 9537
      },
      {
        "field_group": "arts_psychology_social_work",
        "label": "Visual and performing arts, professional-pathway psychology or professional-pathway social work",
        "funding_cluster": 2,
        "value": 9537
      },
      {
        "field_group": "nursing_languages",
        "label": "Nursing, Indigenous and foreign languages",
        "funding_cluster": 3,
        "value": 4738
      },
      {
        "field_group": "engineering_science",
        "label": "Engineering, surveying, environmental studies or science",
        "funding_cluster": 3,
        "value": 9537
      },
      {
        "field_group": "agriculture",
        "label": "Agriculture",
        "funding_cluster": 4,
        "value": 4738
      },
      {
        "field_group": "pathology",
        "label": "Pathology",
        "funding_cluster": 4,
        "value": 9537
      },
      {
        "field_group": "medicine_dentistry_veterinary",
        "label": "Medicine, dentistry or veterinary science",
        "funding_cluster": 4,
        "value": 13558
      }
    ],
    "fee_free_uni_ready": 0,
    "source_table_url": "https://www.education.gov.au/download/19201/2026-indexed-rates/41481/document/pdf",
    "available_years": [
      2026,
      2027
    ],
    "attribution_notice": "Source: Australian Government Department of Education, Indexed rates (https://www.education.gov.au/higher-education-publications/indexed-rates). © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. Amounts selected and restated by ProofPrice; this does not imply endorsement by the Department."
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_0056019dd43e5aba6a8c",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-04T01:01:07.494Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "official_statistic",
    "label": "Official published average",
    "meaning": "One average or median that a statistics office or regulator publishes for a reference period: it describes a group, not a distribution, and says nothing about any single price."
  },
  "reliability": "official_median_no_count",
  "data_as_of": "2026-11-04",
  "data_age_days": 0,
  "suggestions": [
    "This is one published figure (an average, median, index or listed price) with no record count: use it as a reference point, not as a range of what individuals paid.",
    "For a decision on a specific job or purchase, ask for an itemised quote."
  ]
}