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Progression to Tertiary: Institution Type

The tertiary education sector is a diverse sector. Its scope ranges from informal non-assessed community courses in schools through to formal undergraduate degrees and advanced research-based postgraduate degrees.

Progression to tertiary education is a measure of the level of tertiary education a student is enrolled in one, two or three years after leaving school.

School leavers are identified from the Ministry of Education’s ENROL system, while tertiary enrolment information is sourced from the tertiary databases SDR and ITR.

Identical information is available by regional council and territorial local authority through the Know Your Region pages.

Table 1: School leavers enrolled in tertiary education one year after leaving school (2022-2024 leaver cohorts)
Group	Institution Type	Year left school
		2022	2023	2024
		Female	Universities	24	16	13
Female	Polytechnics	12	6	7
Female	Wānanga	0	2	6
Female	Private Training Establishments	29	35	31
Female	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Female	Industry Training Organisations	4	1	0
Female	Not in tertiary study	106	82	76
Female	Total	175	142	133
Male	Universities	6	11	7
Male	Polytechnics	14	7	14
Male	Wānanga	0	0	3
Male	Private Training Establishments	9	29	33
Male	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Male	Industry Training Organisations	7	4	4
Male	Not in tertiary study	130	97	114
Male	Total	166	148	175
Māori	Universities	4	5	4
Māori	Polytechnics	9	3	5
Māori	Wānanga	0	2	3
Māori	Private Training Establishments	14	22	35
Māori	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Māori	Industry Training Organisations	8	3	0
Māori	Not in tertiary study	114	65	76
Māori	Total	149	100	123
Pacific	Universities	17	19	9
Pacific	Polytechnics	7	5	11
Pacific	Wānanga	0	0	6
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	23	43	27
Pacific	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Pacific	Industry Training Organisations	4	2	2
Pacific	Not in tertiary study	116	107	119
Pacific	Total	167	176	174
Asian	Universities	6	6	8
Asian	Polytechnics	8	4	6
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	2	0	4
Asian	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Asian	Industry Training Organisations	0	0	1
Asian	Not in tertiary study	5	13	16
Asian	Total	21	23	35
MELAA	Universities	x	1	x
MELAA	Polytechnics	x	2	x
MELAA	Wānanga	x	0	x
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	x	2	x
MELAA	Targeted Training	x	0	x
MELAA	Industry Training Organisations	x	0	x
MELAA	Not in tertiary study	x	5	x
MELAA	Total	x	10	x
Other	Universities	x	0	x
Other	Polytechnics	x	0	x
Other	Wānanga	x	0	x
Other	Private Training Establishments	x	0	x
Other	Targeted Training	x	0	x
Other	Industry Training Organisations	x	0	x
Other	Not in tertiary study	x	0	x
Other	Total	x	0	x
European/Pākehā	Universities	2	1	2
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	2	1	0
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	0	0	1
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	3	7	9
European/Pākehā	Targeted Training	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Industry Training Organisations	0	0	1
European/Pākehā	Not in tertiary study	11	14	11
European/Pākehā	Total	18	23	24
Total	Universities	30	27	20
Total	Polytechnics	26	13	21
Total	Wānanga	0	2	9
Total	Private Training Establishments	38	64	64
Total	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Total	Industry Training Organisations	11	5	4
Total	Not in tertiary study	236	179	190
Total	Total	341	290	308

Notes:

‘x’ = data has been suppressed where there are between 0 and 5 students in the denominator for a specific group, for example Asian students. Where one gender has been suppressed the corresponding gender has also been suppressed.
Ethnicity is multiple response, that is, students who affiliated in more than one ethnic group have been counted in each ethnic group. Students are only counted once in the total, therefore, the ethnic groups may not sum to the total.
International fee-paying students and adult students (age 19+) are excluded.

Table 2: School leavers enrolled in tertiary education two years after leaving school (2021-2023 leaver cohorts)
Group	Institution Type	Year left school
		2021	2022	2023
		Female	Universities	13	23	11
Female	Polytechnics	12	9	7
Female	Wānanga	0	0	2
Female	Private Training Establishments	32	29	28
Female	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Female	Industry Training Organisations	3	2	2
Female	Not in tertiary study	102	112	92
Female	Total	162	175	142
Male	Universities	4	5	9
Male	Polytechnics	4	13	7
Male	Wānanga	2	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	7	14	20
Male	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Male	Industry Training Organisations	5	6	7
Male	Not in tertiary study	104	128	105
Male	Total	126	166	148
Māori	Universities	4	4	2
Māori	Polytechnics	6	5	4
Māori	Wānanga	2	0	1
Māori	Private Training Establishments	12	20	23
Māori	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Māori	Industry Training Organisations	3	3	5
Māori	Not in tertiary study	84	117	65
Māori	Total	111	149	100
Pacific	Universities	11	14	14
Pacific	Polytechnics	6	9	7
Pacific	Wānanga	0	0	1
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	20	19	28
Pacific	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Pacific	Industry Training Organisations	5	4	4
Pacific	Not in tertiary study	115	121	122
Pacific	Total	157	167	176
Asian	Universities	2	6	3
Asian	Polytechnics	2	6	4
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	6	2	1
Asian	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Asian	Industry Training Organisations	0	0	0
Asian	Not in tertiary study	7	7	15
Asian	Total	17	21	23
MELAA	Universities	x	x	3
MELAA	Polytechnics	x	x	1
MELAA	Wānanga	x	x	0
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	x	x	2
MELAA	Targeted Training	x	x	0
MELAA	Industry Training Organisations	x	x	0
MELAA	Not in tertiary study	x	x	4
MELAA	Total	x	x	10
Other	Universities	x	x	0
Other	Polytechnics	x	x	0
Other	Wānanga	x	x	0
Other	Private Training Establishments	x	x	0
Other	Targeted Training	x	x	0
Other	Industry Training Organisations	x	x	0
Other	Not in tertiary study	x	x	0
Other	Total	x	x	0
European/Pākehā	Universities	0	2	1
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	2	2	1
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	0	0	1
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	2	3	2
European/Pākehā	Targeted Training	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Industry Training Organisations	0	1	1
European/Pākehā	Not in tertiary study	8	10	17
European/Pākehā	Total	12	18	23
Total	Universities	17	28	20
Total	Polytechnics	16	22	14
Total	Wānanga	2	0	2
Total	Private Training Establishments	39	43	48
Total	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Total	Industry Training Organisations	8	8	9
Total	Not in tertiary study	206	240	197
Total	Total	288	341	290

Notes:

‘x’ = data has been suppressed where there are between 0 and 5 students in the denominator for a specific group, for example Asian students. Where one gender has been suppressed the corresponding gender has also been suppressed.
Ethnicity is multiple response, that is, students who affiliated in more than one ethnic group have been counted in each ethnic group. Students are only counted once in the total, therefore, the ethnic groups may not sum to the total.
International fee-paying students and adult students (age 19+) are excluded.

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