Educational performance in tertiary education

The information on the following pages provides some data on how well tertiary providers are helping their students to achieve.

This information can be used to help students and their whānau make choices about their education options.

It includes:

• Why this information is useful for you
• Specific information about each individual tertiary provider
• What the indicators mean.

The performance information on the following pages is based only on student places* funded by the Government’s largest tertiary education fund, and trainee places in industry training. It does not include details about international students or other types of funding the TEC allocates.

* Student places in this instance means only Student Achievement Component Funded places and trainee places funded through the Industry Training Fund.

The information looks to answer questions such as:

• How many students are successfully completing their courses?
• How many students are completing their qualifications?
• How many students are progressing to higher level study?
• How many students are being retained in study?

Note about levels of study

Qualifications in New Zealand are all given a level on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework. This level is based on the complexity of learning, with level one the least complex and level ten the most.

The levels are generally known as:

• Level 1-2 Certificates
• Level 3-4 Certificates
• Level 5-6 Diplomas and Graduate Certificates
• Level 7-8 Degrees, Postgraduate Diplomas and Honours
• Level 9-10 Masters and Doctorates.

The information that is published on the following pages is often explained in relation to these groups of qualifications. 

Note about EFTS

Where an organisation is funded for fewer than 5 Equivalent Full Time Students, there is no individual data available for them. This is to ensure individual students cannot be identified.

Where an organisation has fewer than 30 Equivalent Full Time Students at a level of study, no information will be available for that level of study. This is to ensure statistically robust sample sizes that allow for comparison.