Waitakere College

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	37	43	47
Female	Polytechnics	16	11	10
Female	Wānanga	1	0	1
Female	Private Training Establishments	17	19	21
Female	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Female	Industry Training Organisations	3	9	4
Female	Not in tertiary study	69	52	54
Female	Total	143	134	137
Male	Universities	20	39	26
Male	Polytechnics	16	7	21
Male	Wānanga	1	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	11	19	17
Male	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Male	Industry Training Organisations	13	14	12
Male	Not in tertiary study	87	83	104
Male	Total	148	162	180
Māori	Universities	4	8	10
Māori	Polytechnics	2	9	7
Māori	Wānanga	1	0	0
Māori	Private Training Establishments	12	17	17
Māori	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Māori	Industry Training Organisations	1	6	8
Māori	Not in tertiary study	58	39	43
Māori	Total	78	79	85
Pacific	Universities	14	14	17
Pacific	Polytechnics	11	9	13
Pacific	Wānanga	1	0	1
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	9	19	16
Pacific	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Pacific	Industry Training Organisations	3	1	4
Pacific	Not in tertiary study	69	48	62
Pacific	Total	107	91	113
Asian	Universities	27	37	38
Asian	Polytechnics	10	4	8
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	4	4	5
Asian	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Asian	Industry Training Organisations	2	4	3
Asian	Not in tertiary study	21	15	26
Asian	Total	64	64	80
MELAA	Universities	1	x	0
MELAA	Polytechnics	3	x	3
MELAA	Wānanga	0	x	0
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	1	x	0
MELAA	Targeted Training	0	x	0
MELAA	Industry Training Organisations	2	x	0
MELAA	Not in tertiary study	4	x	7
MELAA	Total	11	x	10
Other	Universities	0	x	0
Other	Polytechnics	0	x	0
Other	Wānanga	0	x	0
Other	Private Training Establishments	0	x	0
Other	Targeted Training	0	x	0
Other	Industry Training Organisations	0	x	0
Other	Not in tertiary study	0	x	0
Other	Total	0	x	0
European/Pākehā	Universities	22	33	24
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	10	6	11
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	9	18	18
European/Pākehā	Targeted Training	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Industry Training Organisations	10	18	7
European/Pākehā	Not in tertiary study	56	63	63
European/Pākehā	Total	107	138	123
Total	Universities	57	82	73
Total	Polytechnics	32	18	31
Total	Wānanga	2	0	1
Total	Private Training Establishments	28	38	38
Total	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Total	Industry Training Organisations	16	23	16
Total	Not in tertiary study	156	135	158
Total	Total	291	296	317

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	43	35	44
Female	Polytechnics	5	14	13
Female	Wānanga	0	1	2
Female	Private Training Establishments	12	22	13
Female	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Female	Industry Training Organisations	3	2	4
Female	Not in tertiary study	68	69	58
Female	Total	131	143	134
Male	Universities	16	20	40
Male	Polytechnics	10	9	6
Male	Wānanga	0	1	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	8	11	8
Male	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Male	Industry Training Organisations	22	20	15
Male	Not in tertiary study	85	87	93
Male	Total	141	148	162
Māori	Universities	4	4	9
Māori	Polytechnics	1	4	7
Māori	Wānanga	0	1	2
Māori	Private Training Establishments	7	11	8
Māori	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Māori	Industry Training Organisations	9	1	4
Māori	Not in tertiary study	47	57	49
Māori	Total	68	78	79
Pacific	Universities	13	14	13
Pacific	Polytechnics	1	7	7
Pacific	Wānanga	0	1	0
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	7	16	9
Pacific	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Pacific	Industry Training Organisations	4	4	2
Pacific	Not in tertiary study	70	65	60
Pacific	Total	95	107	91
Asian	Universities	23	25	40
Asian	Polytechnics	3	6	6
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	2	7	2
Asian	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Asian	Industry Training Organisations	2	3	5
Asian	Not in tertiary study	26	23	11
Asian	Total	56	64	64
MELAA	Universities	x	2	x
MELAA	Polytechnics	x	2	x
MELAA	Wānanga	x	0	x
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	x	0	x
MELAA	Targeted Training	x	0	x
MELAA	Industry Training Organisations	x	2	x
MELAA	Not in tertiary study	x	5	x
MELAA	Total	x	11	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	20	20	33
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	10	9	3
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	0	0	2
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	12	10	13
European/Pākehā	Targeted Training	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Industry Training Organisations	13	14	12
European/Pākehā	Not in tertiary study	58	54	75
European/Pākehā	Total	113	107	138
Total	Universities	59	55	84
Total	Polytechnics	15	23	19
Total	Wānanga	0	2	2
Total	Private Training Establishments	20	33	21
Total	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Total	Industry Training Organisations	25	22	19
Total	Not in tertiary study	153	156	151
Total	Total	272	291	296

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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