Barry Sanders has supervised or currently supervises the following Higher Degree Students.
| Name | Degree | Thesis Title | Institution | Year |
| John Ingall | MSc | Photon Localisation | Macquarie University | 1999 |
| Jun-jie Shi | PhD | Electrons, Phonons, Photons, Excitons and Polarons in Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Multilayer Heterostructures | Macquarie University | 2000 |
| Levente Horvath | PhD | Photon Coincidence Spectroscopy in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics | Macquarie University | 2002 |
| Peter Brooke | PhD | Decoherence-Suppressed Subspaces in Atomic Systems | Macquarie University | |
| Xue-Song Qi | PhD | Entanglement in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics | University of Calgary | |
| Zeng-Bin Wang | PhD | Quantum information processing with nonlinear optical gates | University of Calgary | |
| Iyad Mahmoud Abu-Ajamieh | PhD | Collective effects in dense gases | University of Calgary | |
| Yeongyoon Kim | PhD | Sharing entangled quantum secrets | University of Calgary |
He has been an external examiner for the following students.
| Name | Degree | Thesis Title | Institution | Year | Supervisor |
| Yi Mu | PhD | Quantum optical studies of lasers and amplifiers | Australian National University | 1993 | C M Savage |
| Bruce Wielinga | PhD | Tunnelling behaviour in the time-dependent Cassinian oscillator, | The University of Queensland | 1995 | G J Milburn. |
| Sigurd Dyrting | PhD | Quantum chaos in atom optics | The University of Queensland | 1995 | G J Milburn. |
| Stephen Kurzeja | MSc | Quantum entangled states of trapped atoms for teleportation | The University of Auckland | 2000 | A S Parkins |
| Nipun Vats | PhD | Non-Markovian radiative phenomena in photonic crystals | The University of Toronto | 2001 | S John |
| Dominic Berry | PhD | Adaptive Phase Measurements | The University of Queensland | 2001 | H M Wiseman |
| Robert Spekkens | PhD | Aspects of Entanglement | The University of Toronto | 2001 | J E Sipe |
| Andrew S M Windsor | PhD | Australian National University | 2001 | N Manson | |
| Ben Travaglione | PhD | Small Scale Quantum Algorithms | The University of Queensland | 2002 | G J Milburn. |
| Mark Adcock | MSc | The Classical and Quantum Complexity of the Goldreich-Levin Problem with Applications to Bit Commitment | University of Calgary | 2003 | R Cleve |
| Heath Gerhardt | MSc | Continuous-time quantum walks on the symmetric group | University of Calgary | 2003 | J Watrous |
| Rich Cannings | MSc | Security in Quantum Cryptography | University of Calgary | 2004 | R Cleve and R Scheidler |