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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	299	265	275
Female	Polytechnics	298	359	412
Female	Wānanga	15	17	20
Female	Private Training Establishments	235	263	274
Female	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Female	Industry Training Organisations	102	85	68
Female	Not in tertiary study	1,550	1,409	1,513
Female	Total	2,499	2,398	2,562
Male	Universities	163	190	173
Male	Polytechnics	140	165	180
Male	Wānanga	4	11	6
Male	Private Training Establishments	98	114	163
Male	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Male	Industry Training Organisations	100	99	81
Male	Not in tertiary study	949	838	941
Male	Total	1,454	1,417	1,544
Māori	Universities	65	56	50
Māori	Polytechnics	100	137	166
Māori	Wānanga	19	24	17
Māori	Private Training Establishments	127	136	170
Māori	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Māori	Industry Training Organisations	51	40	52
Māori	Not in tertiary study	849	777	885
Māori	Total	1,211	1,170	1,340
Pacific	Universities	29	35	35
Pacific	Polytechnics	25	31	30
Pacific	Wānanga	0	2	2
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	21	30	45
Pacific	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Pacific	Industry Training Organisations	7	9	9
Pacific	Not in tertiary study	193	168	197
Pacific	Total	275	275	318
Asian	Universities	81	92	128
Asian	Polytechnics	25	39	36
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	1
Asian	Private Training Establishments	19	28	23
Asian	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Asian	Industry Training Organisations	6	8	5
Asian	Not in tertiary study	98	114	136
Asian	Total	229	281	329
MELAA	Universities	31	20	27
MELAA	Polytechnics	11	9	17
MELAA	Wānanga	0	0	0
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	4	8	15
MELAA	Targeted Training	0	0	0
MELAA	Industry Training Organisations	0	6	0
MELAA	Not in tertiary study	57	47	58
MELAA	Total	103	90	117
Other	Universities	5	13	9
Other	Polytechnics	9	11	11
Other	Wānanga	0	0	1
Other	Private Training Establishments	7	8	10
Other	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Other	Industry Training Organisations	7	4	2
Other	Not in tertiary study	50	45	39
Other	Total	78	81	72
European/Pākehā	Universities	309	287	283
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	321	367	466
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	3	9	12
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	206	243	290
European/Pākehā	Targeted Training	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Industry Training Organisations	159	139	114
European/Pākehā	Not in tertiary study	1,640	1,466	1,732
European/Pākehā	Total	2,638	2,511	2,897
Total	Universities	462	455	448
Total	Polytechnics	438	524	592
Total	Wānanga	19	28	26
Total	Private Training Establishments	333	377	437
Total	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Total	Industry Training Organisations	202	184	149
Total	Not in tertiary study	2,499	2,247	2,454
Total	Total	3,953	3,815	4,106

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	155	340	337
Female	Polytechnics	200	278	314
Female	Wānanga	11	25	24
Female	Private Training Establishments	100	178	202
Female	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Female	Industry Training Organisations	71	86	83
Female	Not in tertiary study	1,121	1,592	1,438
Female	Total	1,658	2,499	2,398
Male	Universities	75	179	206
Male	Polytechnics	53	108	125
Male	Wānanga	1	5	4
Male	Private Training Establishments	49	75	73
Male	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Male	Industry Training Organisations	87	132	125
Male	Not in tertiary study	666	955	884
Male	Total	931	1,454	1,417
Māori	Universities	32	82	64
Māori	Polytechnics	59	93	119
Māori	Wānanga	9	24	22
Māori	Private Training Establishments	51	92	91
Māori	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Māori	Industry Training Organisations	45	55	50
Māori	Not in tertiary study	623	865	824
Māori	Total	819	1,211	1,170
Pacific	Universities	15	31	41
Pacific	Polytechnics	18	29	29
Pacific	Wānanga	1	3	4
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	9	20	29
Pacific	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Pacific	Industry Training Organisations	9	7	12
Pacific	Not in tertiary study	157	185	160
Pacific	Total	209	275	275
Asian	Universities	28	82	105
Asian	Polytechnics	13	17	26
Asian	Wānanga	1	1	1
Asian	Private Training Establishments	8	16	20
Asian	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Asian	Industry Training Organisations	3	8	10
Asian	Not in tertiary study	64	105	119
Asian	Total	117	229	281
MELAA	Universities	8	31	30
MELAA	Polytechnics	3	8	8
MELAA	Wānanga	0	2	0
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	4	4	2
MELAA	Targeted Training	0	0	0
MELAA	Industry Training Organisations	3	1	3
MELAA	Not in tertiary study	31	57	47
MELAA	Total	49	103	90
Other	Universities	7	8	15
Other	Polytechnics	3	11	9
Other	Wānanga	0	0	0
Other	Private Training Establishments	1	5	7
Other	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Other	Industry Training Organisations	2	2	4
Other	Not in tertiary study	21	52	46
Other	Total	34	78	81
European/Pākehā	Universities	170	362	348
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	188	278	314
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	1	9	9
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	96	153	179
European/Pākehā	Targeted Training	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Industry Training Organisations	120	177	159
European/Pākehā	Not in tertiary study	1,153	1,659	1,502
European/Pākehā	Total	1,728	2,638	2,511
Total	Universities	230	519	543
Total	Polytechnics	253	386	439
Total	Wānanga	12	30	28
Total	Private Training Establishments	149	253	275
Total	Targeted Training	0	0	0
Total	Industry Training Organisations	158	218	208
Total	Not in tertiary study	1,787	2,547	2,322
Total	Total	2,589	3,953	3,815

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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