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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 school (Find Your Nearest School), as well as regional council and territorial authority (Know Your Region).

Table 1: School leavers enrolled in tertiary education one year after leaving school (2017-2019 leaver cohorts)
Group	Institution Type	Year left school
		2017	2018	2019
		Female	Industry training	7	9	3
Female	Targetted training	9	8	18
Female	Universities	33	36	38
Female	Polytechnics	25	27	18
Female	Wānanga	0	0	0
Female	Private Training Establishments	19	15	11
Female	Not in Tertiary Education	61	66	66
Female	Total	154	161	154
Male	Industry training	7	7	15
Male	Targetted training	9	14	10
Male	Universities	24	32	13
Male	Polytechnics	31	22	22
Male	Wānanga	0	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	17	8	11
Male	Not in Tertiary Education	60	68	73
Male	Total	148	151	144
Māori	Industry training	3	4	3
Māori	Targetted training	4	6	9
Māori	Universities	4	2	2
Māori	Polytechnics	9	6	11
Māori	Wānanga	0	0	0
Māori	Private Training Establishments	6	6	3
Māori	Not in Tertiary Education	24	24	20
Māori	Total	50	48	48
Pacific	Industry training	0	2	0
Pacific	Targetted training	2	1	5
Pacific	Universities	3	3	2
Pacific	Polytechnics	1	3	3
Pacific	Wānanga	0	0	0
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	0	2	0
Pacific	Not in Tertiary Education	9	13	14
Pacific	Total	15	24	24
Asian	Industry training	0	0	0
Asian	Targetted training	1	0	1
Asian	Universities	4	11	10
Asian	Polytechnics	3	2	1
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	2	3	4
Asian	Not in Tertiary Education	8	5	21
Asian	Total	18	21	37
MELAA	Industry training	0	0	x
MELAA	Targetted training	0	1	x
MELAA	Universities	1	1	x
MELAA	Polytechnics	1	1	x
MELAA	Wānanga	0	0	x
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	2	1	x
MELAA	Not in Tertiary Education	1	2	x
MELAA	Total	5	6	x
Other	Industry training	0	0	x
Other	Targetted training	0	0	x
Other	Universities	0	0	x
Other	Polytechnics	0	0	x
Other	Wānanga	0	0	x
Other	Private Training Establishments	0	0	x
Other	Not in Tertiary Education	0	0	x
Other	Total	0	0	x
European/Pākehā	Industry training	14	14	18
European/Pākehā	Targetted training	15	19	21
European/Pākehā	Universities	50	61	42
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	50	42	37
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	31	17	20
European/Pākehā	Not in Tertiary Education	93	112	105
European/Pākehā	Total	253	265	243
CoL Total	Industry training	14	16	18
CoL Total	Targetted training	18	22	28
CoL Total	Universities	57	68	51
CoL Total	Polytechnics	56	49	40
CoL Total	Wānanga	0	0	0
CoL Total	Private Training Establishments	36	23	22
CoL Total	Not in Tertiary Education	121	134	139
CoL Total	Total	302	312	298

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 (2016-2018 leaver cohorts)
Group	Institution Type	Year left school
		2016	2017	2018
		Female	Industry training	4	2	5
Female	Targetted training	3	1	1
Female	Universities	34	34	47
Female	Polytechnics	22	28	28
Female	Wānanga	0	0	0
Female	Private Training Establishments	10	17	12
Female	Not in Tertiary Education	72	72	68
Female	Total	145	154	161
Male	Industry training	13	11	12
Male	Targetted training	1	1	1
Male	Universities	22	21	31
Male	Polytechnics	21	12	18
Male	Wānanga	0	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	6	16	8
Male	Not in Tertiary Education	85	87	81
Male	Total	148	148	151
Māori	Industry training	4	2	3
Māori	Targetted training	0	1	1
Māori	Universities	4	5	2
Māori	Polytechnics	5	3	5
Māori	Wānanga	0	0	0
Māori	Private Training Establishments	1	7	4
Māori	Not in Tertiary Education	38	32	33
Māori	Total	52	50	48
Pacific	Industry training	1	0	0
Pacific	Targetted training	0	1	0
Pacific	Universities	1	1	2
Pacific	Polytechnics	1	2	3
Pacific	Wānanga	0	0	0
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	0	0	3
Pacific	Not in Tertiary Education	14	11	16
Pacific	Total	17	15	24
Asian	Industry training	2	0	1
Asian	Targetted training	0	0	0
Asian	Universities	7	5	10
Asian	Polytechnics	5	4	4
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	1	2	3
Asian	Not in Tertiary Education	14	7	3
Asian	Total	29	18	21
MELAA	Industry training	x	0	0
MELAA	Targetted training	x	0	1
MELAA	Universities	x	1	1
MELAA	Polytechnics	x	0	1
MELAA	Wānanga	x	0	0
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	x	2	0
MELAA	Not in Tertiary Education	x	2	3
MELAA	Total	x	5	6
Other	Industry training	x	0	0
Other	Targetted training	x	0	0
Other	Universities	x	0	0
Other	Polytechnics	x	0	0
Other	Wānanga	x	0	0
Other	Private Training Establishments	x	0	0
Other	Not in Tertiary Education	x	0	0
Other	Total	x	0	0
European/Pākehā	Industry training	15	13	15
European/Pākehā	Targetted training	4	2	1
European/Pākehā	Universities	46	48	71
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	34	33	37
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	15	28	15
European/Pākehā	Not in Tertiary Education	133	129	126
European/Pākehā	Total	247	253	265
CoL Total	Industry training	17	13	17
CoL Total	Targetted training	4	2	2
CoL Total	Universities	56	55	78
CoL Total	Polytechnics	43	40	46
CoL Total	Wānanga	0	0	0
CoL Total	Private Training Establishments	16	33	20
CoL Total	Not in Tertiary Education	157	159	149
CoL Total	Total	293	302	312

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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