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Progression to Tertiary: Qualification Level

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	Highest tertiary qualification study level	Year left school
		2015	2016	2017
		Female	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	70	33	50
Female	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	16	17	20
Female	Enrolled L1-L3	20	31	19
Female	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	51	54	54
Female	Total	157	135	143
Male	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	62	63	56
Male	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	42	34	44
Male	Enrolled L1-L3	40	45	41
Male	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	93	90	92
Male	Total	237	232	233
Māori	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	9	8	17
Māori	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	5	8	11
Māori	Enrolled L1-L3	12	19	15
Māori	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	24	20	32
Māori	Total	50	55	75
Pacific	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	3	4	4
Pacific	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	6	5	2
Pacific	Enrolled L1-L3	7	8	6
Pacific	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	11	17	15
Pacific	Total	27	34	27
Asian	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	10	6	3
Asian	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	1	3	5
Asian	Enrolled L1-L3	2	2	2
Asian	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	7	12	6
Asian	Total	20	23	16
MELAA	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	x	1	4
MELAA	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	x	0	1
MELAA	Enrolled L1-L3	x	1	1
MELAA	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	x	4	3
MELAA	Total	x	6	9
Other	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	x	0	0
Other	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	x	0	0
Other	Enrolled L1-L3	x	0	0
Other	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	x	0	0
Other	Total	x	0	0
NZ European/Pākehā	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	116	85	88
NZ European/Pākehā	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	46	41	51
NZ European/Pākehā	Enrolled L1-L3	45	55	48
NZ European/Pākehā	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	114	109	110
NZ European/Pākehā	Total	321	290	297
CoL Total	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	132	96	106
CoL Total	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	58	51	64
CoL Total	Enrolled L1-L3	60	76	60
CoL Total	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	144	144	146
CoL Total	Total	394	367	376

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	Highest tertiary qualification study level	Year left school
		2014	2015	2016
		Female	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	44	73	36
Female	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	15	17	25
Female	Enrolled L1-L3	15	9	16
Female	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	89	58	58
Female	Total	163	157	135
Male	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	59	59	61
Male	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	62	59	44
Male	Enrolled L1-L3	25	23	17
Male	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	101	96	110
Male	Total	247	237	232
Māori	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	8	9	8
Māori	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	9	13	8
Māori	Enrolled L1-L3	7	4	13
Māori	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	32	24	26
Māori	Total	56	50	55
Pacific	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	2	3	2
Pacific	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	5	5	7
Pacific	Enrolled L1-L3	3	1	3
Pacific	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	14	18	22
Pacific	Total	24	27	34
Asian	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	9	12	8
Asian	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	2	1	4
Asian	Enrolled L1-L3	1	2	1
Asian	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	5	5	10
Asian	Total	17	20	23
MELAA	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	x	x	2
MELAA	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	x	x	1
MELAA	Enrolled L1-L3	x	x	0
MELAA	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	x	x	3
MELAA	Total	x	x	6
Other	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	x	x	0
Other	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	x	x	0
Other	Enrolled L1-L3	x	x	0
Other	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	x	x	0
Other	Total	x	x	0
NZ European/Pākehā	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	86	115	85
NZ European/Pākehā	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	63	58	54
NZ European/Pākehā	Enrolled L1-L3	33	23	20
NZ European/Pākehā	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	154	125	131
NZ European/Pākehā	Total	336	321	290
CoL Total	Enrolled Degree L7 or above	103	132	97
CoL Total	Enrolled Non Degree L4-L7	77	76	69
CoL Total	Enrolled L1-L3	40	32	33
CoL Total	Not Enrolled in Tertiary	190	154	168
CoL Total	Total	410	394	367

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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