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Student Loan Scheme Annual Report 2021 Publications

Publication Details

The purpose of this annual report is to inform Parliament and the New Zealand public about the performance of the Student Loan Scheme for the financial year 2020/21. It includes the audited financial schedules for the year ending 30 June 2021.

Author(s): Ministry of Education.

Date Published: May 2022

Summary

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Since 1992:

1.40m

people have taken out a student loan

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students have borrowed a
total of

$30.2b

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borrowers have repaid a
total of

$18b

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771,000

people have fully repaid their student loan

PAGE 23

the number of loan borrowers has increased from 44,202 to

679,947

PAGE 20

average amounts borrowed, per year, have increased from $3,628 to

$10,479

PAGE 14

In 2020/21:

148,905

students borrowed from the loan scheme

PAGE 14

679,947

people had a student loan

PAGE 20

$1.49b

was collected in loan repayments

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102,927 borrowers had overdue repayments

74%

were overseas-based

PAGE 22

the average student loan
balance was

$23,915

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  • Student support changes 2021 (PDF, 211.9 KB)
  • SLS A3 2021 At a glance (PDF, 583.2 KB)
  • Full Report (PDF, 2.9 MB)
  • SLS 20/21 All Data Tables (XLS, 194.9 KB)

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