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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	9	9	5
Female	Targetted training	15	13	9
Female	Universities	73	83	78
Female	Polytechnics	56	66	65
Female	Wānanga	1	1	0
Female	Private Training Establishments	20	21	30
Female	Not in Tertiary Education	134	138	136
Female	Total	308	331	323
Male	Industry training	15	12	14
Male	Targetted training	9	17	11
Male	Universities	94	94	98
Male	Polytechnics	50	62	47
Male	Wānanga	0	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	12	18	10
Male	Not in Tertiary Education	141	144	118
Male	Total	321	347	298
Māori	Industry training	3	3	1
Māori	Targetted training	6	6	3
Māori	Universities	11	11	14
Māori	Polytechnics	18	13	13
Māori	Wānanga	0	0	0
Māori	Private Training Establishments	2	6	4
Māori	Not in Tertiary Education	35	39	44
Māori	Total	75	78	79
Pacific	Industry training	x	x	0
Pacific	Targetted training	x	x	0
Pacific	Universities	x	x	9
Pacific	Polytechnics	x	x	3
Pacific	Wānanga	x	x	0
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	x	x	2
Pacific	Not in Tertiary Education	x	x	12
Pacific	Total	x	x	26
Asian	Industry training	1	0	1
Asian	Targetted training	0	1	2
Asian	Universities	23	18	22
Asian	Polytechnics	11	20	16
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	2	2	2
Asian	Not in Tertiary Education	23	23	40
Asian	Total	60	64	83
MELAA	Industry training	1	0	x
MELAA	Targetted training	0	0	x
MELAA	Universities	13	10	x
MELAA	Polytechnics	1	5	x
MELAA	Wānanga	0	0	x
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	3	0	x
MELAA	Not in Tertiary Education	6	9	x
MELAA	Total	24	24	x
Other	Industry training	x	x	x
Other	Targetted training	x	x	x
Other	Universities	x	x	x
Other	Polytechnics	x	x	x
Other	Wānanga	x	x	x
Other	Private Training Establishments	x	x	x
Other	Not in Tertiary Education	x	x	x
Other	Total	x	x	x
European/Pākehā	Industry training	19	20	17
European/Pākehā	Targetted training	21	24	18
European/Pākehā	Universities	125	141	135
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	88	98	82
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	1	1	0
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	25	33	34
European/Pākehā	Not in Tertiary Education	228	224	181
European/Pākehā	Total	507	541	467
CoL Total	Industry training	24	21	19
CoL Total	Targetted training	24	30	20
CoL Total	Universities	167	177	176
CoL Total	Polytechnics	106	128	112
CoL Total	Wānanga	1	1	0
CoL Total	Private Training Establishments	32	39	40
CoL Total	Not in Tertiary Education	275	282	254
CoL Total	Total	629	678	621

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	9	10	9
Female	Targetted training	2	4	2
Female	Universities	91	68	81
Female	Polytechnics	68	46	65
Female	Wānanga	0	0	0
Female	Private Training Establishments	17	25	20
Female	Not in Tertiary Education	152	155	154
Female	Total	339	308	331
Male	Industry training	21	20	16
Male	Targetted training	7	1	2
Male	Universities	90	92	88
Male	Polytechnics	29	41	60
Male	Wānanga	0	0	0
Male	Private Training Establishments	13	16	20
Male	Not in Tertiary Education	158	151	161
Male	Total	318	321	347
Māori	Industry training	2	2	3
Māori	Targetted training	1	1	0
Māori	Universities	6	7	11
Māori	Polytechnics	13	15	10
Māori	Wānanga	0	0	0
Māori	Private Training Establishments	3	6	6
Māori	Not in Tertiary Education	44	44	48
Māori	Total	69	75	78
Pacific	Industry training	x	x	x
Pacific	Targetted training	x	x	x
Pacific	Universities	x	x	x
Pacific	Polytechnics	x	x	x
Pacific	Wānanga	x	x	x
Pacific	Private Training Establishments	x	x	x
Pacific	Not in Tertiary Education	x	x	x
Pacific	Total	x	x	x
Asian	Industry training	1	1	0
Asian	Targetted training	0	0	0
Asian	Universities	25	23	17
Asian	Polytechnics	8	7	16
Asian	Wānanga	0	0	0
Asian	Private Training Establishments	2	4	3
Asian	Not in Tertiary Education	23	25	28
Asian	Total	59	60	64
MELAA	Industry training	0	1	1
MELAA	Targetted training	0	0	0
MELAA	Universities	10	12	10
MELAA	Polytechnics	7	3	4
MELAA	Wānanga	0	0	0
MELAA	Private Training Establishments	1	2	0
MELAA	Not in Tertiary Education	10	6	9
MELAA	Total	28	24	24
Other	Industry training	x	x	x
Other	Targetted training	x	x	x
Other	Universities	x	x	x
Other	Polytechnics	x	x	x
Other	Wānanga	x	x	x
Other	Private Training Establishments	x	x	x
Other	Not in Tertiary Education	x	x	x
Other	Total	x	x	x
European/Pākehā	Industry training	26	26	22
European/Pākehā	Targetted training	9	4	4
European/Pākehā	Universities	140	119	133
European/Pākehā	Polytechnics	74	74	101
European/Pākehā	Wānanga	0	0	0
European/Pākehā	Private Training Establishments	24	33	34
European/Pākehā	Not in Tertiary Education	249	251	247
European/Pākehā	Total	522	507	541
CoL Total	Industry training	30	30	25
CoL Total	Targetted training	9	5	4
CoL Total	Universities	181	160	169
CoL Total	Polytechnics	97	87	125
CoL Total	Wānanga	0	0	0
CoL Total	Private Training Establishments	30	41	40
CoL Total	Not in Tertiary Education	310	306	315
CoL Total	Total	657	629	678

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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