Change is accelerating. Choosing isn't getting easier.
Across degrees, short courses and microcredentials from dozens of providers, the number of choices is growing every day as the market continues to fragment, leaving working professionals with no easy way to compare real options against their goals, budget and timeline.
You can get pre-approved for a home loan or insured in hours, but professionals applying for a postgraduate course, or even trying to buy a short course, still face slow, clunky processes that were never built for how fast they want to move.
What is StudyNext?
StudyNext is Australia’s trusted education comparison platform, built for professionals navigating upskilling and career changes.
- We help education providers reach motivated learners
- We help media brands integrate course search into their platforms
- We help professionals make study choices that align with their needs by offering a comprehensive range of courses, from short courses through to master's degrees, delivered face-to-face and online by a wide range of education providers
How it works
We work with top-tier universities and education providers to showcase high-quality study options in a transparent, easily digestible way.
We deliver accurate, up-to-date course information. Our product team monitors providers' websites and maintains over 1,600 courses.
Whether students find us through StudyNext Australia, GlobalHealth Education or via our media partners, our intuitive tools and expert content help people efficiently evaluate the best options and make informed decisions.
Get in touch with our team now
If you're an education provider looking to reach career-focused students, we can help.
Connect our audience with your purchase path
List your programs on StudyNext and become part of how today’s post-experience learners research their options.
Listings give you visibility within a high-intent comparison environment and access to real-time market signals. We can help you drive measurable enrolments. Our premium tier activates direct conversion pathways and lead generation.
| Feature | Basic | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Program listings | Postgraduate courses included on StudyNext | Postgraduate and select short courses included on StudyNext |
| Visibility | Courses visible in search results | Increased visibility through promotion including publisher channels |
| Market insights | N/A | Market insights and search optimisation |
| Purchase pathways | N/A | Fully activated conversion pathways including:
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StudyNext and the Australian Financial Review
This partnership brings together one of Australia's most trusted media brands and its 2.5 million subscribers with leading educational institutions, matching editorial content with relevant course solutions and making it easier for professionals to research and find courses that help them upskill in fast-moving, high-demand areas.
Our dynamic widgets integrate natively into articles in the AFR's Work and Careers section, connecting the story a reader is engaged with to the courses that help them act on it. Readers click through to an AFR-branded version of StudyNext, showcasing a catalogue built for business professionals, from short courses through to degrees, for those eager to stay sharp, relevant and ahead in their careers.
View a live example of an AFR article: Which AI course should I do? (AFR subscription required).
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Frequently Asked Questions
StudyNext attracts post-experience professionals actively researching postgraduate and short course options. We engage with our audience through expert content, digital marketing and strategic media partnerships, placing your programs directly in front of high-intent adult learners at the point of decision.
Basic listings include your product in our course catalogue. Visitors can review your products but there is no direct conversion pathway.
Premium partnerships activate conversion pathways, enabling lead capture and direct applications, so we can turn that demand into measurable new enrolments.
Our premium model is performance-led and aligned to outcomes. Typically, this is structured as a cost-per-start model, but we can work with you on a bespoke solution as per your needs.
Our audience is post-experience learners, primarily in business and health-related professions. People find us through our 100s of articles written by our in-house expert team and via our publisher network. These are professionals actively looking to upskill, change direction or progress their careers. These are high-intent users already in the consideration phase, typically comparing multiple institutions before making a decision.
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- If you want to explore how to grow enrolments
- A provider curious about partnering with StudyNext
- Someone with a smart idea that we haven't though of yet
Nick Rumpff
Director
Nick has spent 10+ years building tools that help consumers make better, more informed decisions in high-value, complex categories, including marketplaces reaching over 5M monthly visitors across the US, Canada, Australia and Mexico in education, health, finance and home services. He's now bringing that experience to StudyNext, on a mission to transform the way people research and purchase education.