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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	5	3	2
Female	Targetted training	9	7	4
Female	Universities	68	64	70
Female	Polytechnics	21	10	6
Female	Wānanga	1	1	1
Female	Private Training Establishments	24	22	27
Female	Not in Tertiary Education	61	95	70
Female	Total	189	202	180
Male	Industry training	26	30	14
Male	Targetted training	13	11	11
Male	Universities	42	43	33
Male	Polytechnics	17	10	18
Male	Wānanga	0	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	9	11	15
Male	Not in Tertiary Education	125	96	104
Male	Total	232	201	195
Māori	Industry training	4	13	8
Māori	Targetted training	9	13	9
Māori	Universities	16	12	13
Māori	Polytechnics	6	5	2
Māori	Wānanga	1	0	1
Māori	Private Training Establishments	4	10	9
Māori	Not in Tertiary Education	54	56	61
Māori	Total	94	109	103
Pacific	Industry training	1	6	3
Pacific	Targetted training	7	7	3
Pacific	Universities	24	30	27
Pacific	Polytechnics	8	5	9
Pacific	Wānanga	0	1	0
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	12	9	9
Pacific	Not in Tertiary Education	62	69	70
Pacific	Total	114	127	121
Asian	Industry training	2	4	1
Asian	Targetted training	2	0	0
Asian	Universities	34	26	23
Asian	Polytechnics	3	4	3
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	1	7	10
Asian	Not in Tertiary Education	20	21	13
Asian	Total	62	62	50
MELAA	Industry training	x	x	0
MELAA	Targetted training	x	x	0
MELAA	Universities	x	x	5
MELAA	Polytechnics	x	x	0
MELAA	Wānanga	x	x	0
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	x	x	2
MELAA	Not in Tertiary Education	x	x	3
MELAA	Total	x	x	10
Other	Industry training	x	x	0
Other	Targetted training	x	x	0
Other	Universities	x	x	0
Other	Polytechnics	x	x	0
Other	Wānanga	x	x	0
Other	Private Training Establishments	x	x	0
Other	Not in Tertiary Education	x	x	0
Other	Total	x	x	0
European/Pākehā	Industry training	27	25	9
European/Pākehā	Targetted training	12	7	5
European/Pākehā	Universities	55	56	59
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	26	10	15
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	0	0	1
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	19	20	23
European/Pākehā	Not in Tertiary Education	99	92	92
European/Pākehā	Total	238	210	204
CoL Total	Industry training	31	33	16
CoL Total	Targetted training	22	18	15
CoL Total	Universities	110	107	103
CoL Total	Polytechnics	38	20	24
CoL Total	Wānanga	1	1	1
CoL Total	Private Training Establishments	33	33	42
CoL Total	Not in Tertiary Education	186	191	174
CoL Total	Total	421	403	375

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	7	6	4
Female	Targetted training	1	1	3
Female	Universities	70	58	69
Female	Polytechnics	16	15	11
Female	Wānanga	2	0	1
Female	Private Training Establishments	14	22	19
Female	Not in Tertiary Education	109	87	95
Female	Total	219	189	202
Male	Industry training	41	25	34
Male	Targetted training	6	2	5
Male	Universities	40	39	39
Male	Polytechnics	13	18	9
Male	Wānanga	1	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	13	14	11
Male	Not in Tertiary Education	115	134	103
Male	Total	229	232	201
Māori	Industry training	7	4	14
Māori	Targetted training	1	1	4
Māori	Universities	14	13	9
Māori	Polytechnics	6	6	4
Māori	Wānanga	2	0	0
Māori	Private Training Establishments	7	6	8
Māori	Not in Tertiary Education	58	64	70
Māori	Total	95	94	109
Pacific	Industry training	12	0	6
Pacific	Targetted training	4	2	4
Pacific	Universities	21	15	27
Pacific	Polytechnics	4	5	3
Pacific	Wānanga	2	0	0
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	12	11	13
Pacific	Not in Tertiary Education	86	81	74
Pacific	Total	141	114	127
Asian	Industry training	2	2	3
Asian	Targetted training	0	0	0
Asian	Universities	30	32	29
Asian	Polytechnics	6	6	4
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	1
Asian	Private Training Establishments	3	3	8
Asian	Not in Tertiary Education	16	19	17
Asian	Total	57	62	62
MELAA	Industry training	2	x	x
MELAA	Targetted training	0	x	x
MELAA	Universities	2	x	x
MELAA	Polytechnics	0	x	x
MELAA	Wānanga	0	x	x
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	0	x	x
MELAA	Not in Tertiary Education	2	x	x
MELAA	Total	6	x	x
Other	Industry training	0	x	x
Other	Targetted training	0	x	x
Other	Universities	0	x	x
Other	Polytechnics	0	x	x
Other	Wānanga	0	x	x
Other	Private Training Establishments	0	x	x
Other	Not in Tertiary Education	0	x	x
Other	Total	0	x	x
European/Pākehā	Industry training	37	26	32
European/Pākehā	Targetted training	4	1	3
European/Pākehā	Universities	68	51	56
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	19	20	14
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	1	0	0
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	12	22	13
European/Pākehā	Not in Tertiary Education	126	118	92
European/Pākehā	Total	267	238	210
CoL Total	Industry training	48	31	38
CoL Total	Targetted training	7	3	8
CoL Total	Universities	110	97	108
CoL Total	Polytechnics	29	33	20
CoL Total	Wānanga	3	0	1
CoL Total	Private Training Establishments	27	36	30
CoL Total	Not in Tertiary Education	224	221	198
CoL Total	Total	448	421	403

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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