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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 (2015-2017 leaver cohorts)
Group	Institution Type	Year left school
		2015	2016	2017
		Female	Universities	36	31	33
Female	Polytechnics	18	27	25
Female	Wananga	0	0	0
Female	Private Training Establishments	13	9	20
Female	Targeted training	9	8	9
Female	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	4	6	7
Female	Not in Tertiary Education	53	65	61
Female	Total	133	146	155
Male	Universities	30	20	24
Male	Polytechnics	24	31	31
Male	Wananga	0	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	6	5	16
Male	Targeted training	14	8	9
Male	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	9	11	7
Male	Not in Tertiary Education	70	74	61
Male	Total	153	149	148
Māori	Universities	1	2	4
Māori	Polytechnics	3	7	9
Māori	Wananga	0	0	0
Māori	Private Training Establishments	3	2	5
Māori	Targeted training	5	2	2
Māori	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	2	4	3
Māori	Not in Tertiary Education	18	24	23
Māori	Total	32	41	46
Pacific	Universities	1	2	2
Pacific	Polytechnics	2	3	1
Pacific	Wananga	0	0	0
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	1	0	0
Pacific	Targeted training	2	0	2
Pacific	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	1	3	0
Pacific	Not in Tertiary Education	11	9	7
Pacific	Total	18	17	12
Asian	Universities	6	5	3
Asian	Polytechnics	2	7	2
Asian	Wananga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	0	1	1
Asian	Targeted training	0	0	1
Asian	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	0	1	0
Asian	Not in Tertiary Education	6	12	8
Asian	Total	14	26	15
MELAA	Universities	x	x	x
MELAA	Polytechnics	x	x	x
MELAA	Wananga	x	x	x
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	x	x	x
MELAA	Targeted training	x	x	x
MELAA	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	x	x	x
MELAA	Not in Tertiary Education	x	x	x
MELAA	Total	x	x	x
Other	Universities	x	x	x
Other	Polytechnics	x	x	x
Other	Wananga	x	x	x
Other	Private Training Establishments	x	x	x
Other	Targeted training	x	x	x
Other	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	x	x	x
Other	Not in Tertiary Education	x	x	x
Other	Total	x	x	x
NZ European/Pākehā	Universities	60	42	50
NZ European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	35	43	48
NZ European/Pākehā	Wananga	0	0	0
NZ European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	15	13	32
NZ European/Pākehā	Targeted training	16	15	15
NZ European/Pākehā	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	11	11	14
NZ European/Pākehā	Not in Tertiary Education	88	103	88
NZ European/Pākehā	Total	225	227	247
CoL Total	Universities	66	51	57
CoL Total	Polytechnics	42	58	56
CoL Total	Wananga	0	0	0
CoL Total	Private Training Establishments	19	14	36
CoL Total	Targeted training	23	16	18
CoL Total	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	13	17	14
CoL Total	Not in Tertiary Education	123	139	122
CoL Total	Total	286	295	303

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 (2014-2016 leaver cohorts)
Group	Institution Type	Year left school
		2014	2015	2016
		Female	Universities	27	36	34
Female	Polytechnics	20	17	22
Female	Wananga	1	0	0
Female	Private Training Establishments	12	8	10
Female	Targeted training	3	3	3
Female	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	9	5	4
Female	Not in Tertiary Education	59	64	73
Female	Total	131	133	146
Male	Universities	23	31	22
Male	Polytechnics	24	19	22
Male	Wananga	0	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	7	6	6
Male	Targeted training	4	6	1
Male	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	21	14	13
Male	Not in Tertiary Education	63	77	85
Male	Total	142	153	149
Māori	Universities	7	2	2
Māori	Polytechnics	4	4	4
Māori	Wananga	1	0	0
Māori	Private Training Establishments	2	2	2
Māori	Targeted training	1	2	0
Māori	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	1	2	2
Māori	Not in Tertiary Education	25	20	31
Māori	Total	41	32	41
Pacific	Universities	1	1	1
Pacific	Polytechnics	0	4	2
Pacific	Wananga	0	0	0
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	0	1	0
Pacific	Targeted training	0	0	0
Pacific	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	1	2	1
Pacific	Not in Tertiary Education	5	10	13
Pacific	Total	7	18	17
Asian	Universities	2	6	6
Asian	Polytechnics	4	3	5
Asian	Wananga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	1	0	1
Asian	Targeted training	0	0	0
Asian	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	2	0	2
Asian	Not in Tertiary Education	8	5	12
Asian	Total	17	14	26
MELAA	Universities	x	x	x
MELAA	Polytechnics	x	x	x
MELAA	Wananga	x	x	x
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	x	x	x
MELAA	Targeted training	x	x	x
MELAA	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	x	x	x
MELAA	Not in Tertiary Education	x	x	x
MELAA	Total	x	x	x
Other	Universities	x	x	x
Other	Polytechnics	x	x	x
Other	Wananga	x	x	x
Other	Private Training Establishments	x	x	x
Other	Targeted training	x	x	x
Other	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	x	x	x
Other	Not in Tertiary Education	x	x	x
Other	Total	x	x	x
NZ European/Pākehā	Universities	39	59	44
NZ European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	36	27	36
NZ European/Pākehā	Wananga	0	0	0
NZ European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	16	12	15
NZ European/Pākehā	Targeted training	7	8	4
NZ European/Pākehā	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	27	15	13
NZ European/Pākehā	Not in Tertiary Education	91	104	115
NZ European/Pākehā	Total	216	225	227
CoL Total	Universities	50	67	56
CoL Total	Polytechnics	44	36	44
CoL Total	Wananga	1	0	0
CoL Total	Private Training Establishments	19	14	16
CoL Total	Targeted training	7	9	4
CoL Total	Modern Apprenticeships/Industry	30	19	17
CoL Total	Not in Tertiary Education	122	141	158
CoL Total	Total	273	286	295

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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