The Australian Financial Review states that Charles Sturt University reported an increase in enrolments in viticulture and wine science programs from 67 last year to 122 this year, bringing the number of students doing wine-related courses at the university to 390.

But the picture is mixed at the University of Adelaide, where enrolments in the oenology bachelor degree dropped from 40 in 2007 to 23 this year; enrolments in the viticulture degree are stable at about 70, and enrolments in a wine marketing degree dropped from around 115 in 2007 to about 50 this year.

The head of the school of agriculture food and wine, Roger Leigh, said enrolments in wine courses, like most agriculture-related programs, had suffered because of the drought and the perception that it was difficult to get jobs in these fields.