Thousands of students (6.9 per cent) reported being sexually assaulted on or off campus in the past two years,according to the survey of 31,000 students,which showed more than a quarter of students at the University of Sydney and 21 per cent at UTS and Western Sydney University reported being harassed.
In Victoria,one in five students were sexually targeted at Monash,Melbourne University,RMIT,and Victoria University.
"To put this in context,in a lecture theatre containing 100 students,at least one,and possibly two,students have been sexually assaulted in the past two years,"Ms Jenkins said.
On Tuesday,Ms Jenkins released graphic details of some of the more than 1800 sexual assault and harassment submissions received by the commission including: