Table 1 Characteristics of the 164 pharmacy students required to show cause who were enrolled in either BPharm, BPharm/Mgmt, or MPharm degrees between 2008 to 2018

Age at start of degree (years), median (min-max)

19

[17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54]

Gender, n (%)

 Female

76

[46]

 Male

88

[54]

Degree program, n (%)

 BPharm

130

(79)

 BPharm/Mgmt

2

[1]

 MPharm

32

[20]

ATAR*, mean (min-max)

88.8

(67.8–98.5)

Transferred from other degree program, n (%)

 No

140

(85)

 Yes

24

[15]

Domestic or international, n (%)

 Domestic

133

(81)

 International

31

[19]

Total UoS failed, median (min-max)

 BPharm

8

[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33]

 BPharm/Mgmt

9

[5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]

 MPharm

5

[2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]

Number of show cause, median (min-max)

 BPharm

1

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]

 BPharm/Mgmt

2

[1,2,3]

 MPharm

1

[1,2,3,4]

Graduated from degree program n (%)

 No

102

[62]

 Yes

62

[38]

Time taken to graduate (years)*, median (min-max)

 BPharm

7

[4,5,6,7,8,9,10]

 MPharm

3

(2.5–8)

Weighted Average Mark (WAM)*^, median (min-max)

52.7

(0–72.4)

Registered as pharmacist on AHPRA*, n (%)

 No

109

[66]

 Yes

49

[30]

 Unknown

6

[4]