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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	2	7
Female	Targetted training	1	3	1
Female	Universities	114	110	119
Female	Polytechnics	27	19	17
Female	Wānanga	1	0	0
Female	Private Training Establishments	11	4	10
Female	Not in Tertiary Education	67	66	68
Female	Total	226	204	222
Male	Industry training	2	9	13
Male	Targetted training	3	2	5
Male	Universities	30	35	41
Male	Polytechnics	13	18	16
Male	Wānanga	0	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	5	2	2
Male	Not in Tertiary Education	64	69	65
Male	Total	117	135	142
Māori	Industry training	2	7	3
Māori	Targetted training	3	2	1
Māori	Universities	17	17	12
Māori	Polytechnics	9	5	12
Māori	Wānanga	1	0	0
Māori	Private Training Establishments	3	2	4
Māori	Not in Tertiary Education	28	33	37
Māori	Total	63	66	69
Pacific	Industry training	1	2	5
Pacific	Targetted training	2	2	2
Pacific	Universities	11	16	13
Pacific	Polytechnics	5	9	11
Pacific	Wānanga	0	0	0
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	7	2	3
Pacific	Not in Tertiary Education	39	45	45
Pacific	Total	65	76	79
Asian	Industry training	1	0	2
Asian	Targetted training	0	2	0
Asian	Universities	33	38	35
Asian	Polytechnics	5	11	4
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	3	1	3
Asian	Not in Tertiary Education	18	16	12
Asian	Total	60	68	56
MELAA	Industry training	2	x	x
MELAA	Targetted training	0	x	x
MELAA	Universities	12	x	x
MELAA	Polytechnics	4	x	x
MELAA	Wānanga	0	x	x
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	1	x	x
MELAA	Not in Tertiary Education	5	x	x
MELAA	Total	24	x	x
Other	Industry training	0	x	x
Other	Targetted training	0	x	x
Other	Universities	4	x	x
Other	Polytechnics	0	x	x
Other	Wānanga	0	x	x
Other	Private Training Establishments	0	x	x
Other	Not in Tertiary Education	1	x	x
Other	Total	5	x	x
European/Pākehā	Industry training	4	3	14
European/Pākehā	Targetted training	1	1	3
European/Pākehā	Universities	77	98	127
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	21	12	12
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	7	2	3
European/Pākehā	Not in Tertiary Education	53	58	65
European/Pākehā	Total	163	174	224
CoL Total	Industry training	7	11	20
CoL Total	Targetted training	4	5	6
CoL Total	Universities	144	145	160
CoL Total	Polytechnics	40	37	33
CoL Total	Wānanga	1	0	0
CoL Total	Private Training Establishments	16	6	12
CoL Total	Not in Tertiary Education	131	135	133
CoL Total	Total	343	339	364

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	3	4	2
Female	Targetted training	3	0	0
Female	Universities	105	122	110
Female	Polytechnics	18	19	17
Female	Wānanga	0	1	1
Female	Private Training Establishments	10	15	9
Female	Not in Tertiary Education	67	65	65
Female	Total	206	226	204
Male	Industry training	13	6	10
Male	Targetted training	3	0	0
Male	Universities	50	37	39
Male	Polytechnics	10	12	16
Male	Wānanga	0	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	4	5	0
Male	Not in Tertiary Education	49	57	70
Male	Total	129	117	135
Māori	Industry training	2	2	5
Māori	Targetted training	1	0	0
Māori	Universities	11	19	14
Māori	Polytechnics	8	8	3
Māori	Wānanga	0	1	1
Māori	Private Training Establishments	0	7	2
Māori	Not in Tertiary Education	20	26	41
Māori	Total	42	63	66
Pacific	Industry training	6	3	2
Pacific	Targetted training	4	0	0
Pacific	Universities	13	13	14
Pacific	Polytechnics	6	3	7
Pacific	Wānanga	0	0	0
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	3	6	2
Pacific	Not in Tertiary Education	37	40	51
Pacific	Total	69	65	76
Asian	Industry training	0	1	0
Asian	Targetted training	1	0	0
Asian	Universities	28	36	38
Asian	Polytechnics	6	5	12
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	3	1	3
Asian	Not in Tertiary Education	11	17	15
Asian	Total	49	60	68
MELAA	Industry training	x	2	x
MELAA	Targetted training	x	0	x
MELAA	Universities	x	11	x
MELAA	Polytechnics	x	4	x
MELAA	Wānanga	x	0	x
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	x	1	x
MELAA	Not in Tertiary Education	x	6	x
MELAA	Total	x	24	x
Other	Industry training	x	0	x
Other	Targetted training	x	0	x
Other	Universities	x	4	x
Other	Polytechnics	x	0	x
Other	Wānanga	x	0	x
Other	Private Training Establishments	x	0	x
Other	Not in Tertiary Education	x	1	x
Other	Total	x	5	x
European/Pākehā	Industry training	8	6	5
European/Pākehā	Targetted training	1	0	0
European/Pākehā	Universities	111	88	103
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	11	15	14
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	0	1	0
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	7	9	3
European/Pākehā	Not in Tertiary Education	55	44	49
European/Pākehā	Total	193	163	174
CoL Total	Industry training	16	10	12
CoL Total	Targetted training	6	0	0
CoL Total	Universities	155	159	149
CoL Total	Polytechnics	28	31	33
CoL Total	Wānanga	0	1	1
CoL Total	Private Training Establishments	14	20	9
CoL Total	Not in Tertiary Education	116	122	135
CoL Total	Total	335	343	339

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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