This publication provides a summary of the outcomes of students who completed their vocational education and training (VET) in Australia during 2017. The outcomes are reported for students who undertook government-subsidised training and those who undertook training on a fee-for-service basis. The figures are derived from the National Student Outcomes Survey, which is an annual survey of students awarded a qualification (graduates), or who successfully completed part of a course and then leave the VET system (subject completers). The mandatory reporting of nationally recognised training activity to the National VET Provider Collection from 2014 provided a sampling frame to expand the scope of the National Student Outcomes Survey to include fee-for-service students from private training and community education providers. Following a successful trial to expand the survey scope to all graduates in 2016, the expanded scope was applied from the 2017 survey and onwards to both graduates and subject completers. Information is presented on students' reasons for training, their employment outcomes, further study outcomes and satisfaction with training. Data on the main reason for not continuing with the training are available for subject completers. This publication supersedes previous publications on government-funded student outcomes, for which information for graduates and subject completers (including a ten-year time-series) is available in this publication (see tables 14 to 16) and selected associated data products.