Tertiary education

Tertiary education statistics give you information about post-school education, including loans taken out to fund post-school education, and income and employment of graduates.

Tertiary education includes industry training, adult and community education, foundation studies and study at tertiary institutions like universities, polytechnics, wānanga and private training establishments.

Information releases

• Student Loans and Allowances
  This annual release provides information on the different characteristics of student loan borrowers, in terms of personal variables (such as sex and age), and characteristics of their loans (amount borrowed, total debt, and voluntary repayments).

Reports and articles

• Debt and income: 1995-2005
  This is one of four background web pages supporting Student Loans and Allowances: 2005, with links to the other pages.
• Degrees of Difference: The Employment of University-qualified Immigrants in New Zealand
  This report contains analysis of the immigrant population, focusing on qualifications and employment, with particular attention to those immigrants with university degrees who arrived in New Zealand in the decade prior to the 2001 Census.
• Student Loan Data Integration Project
• Integrated dataset on student loans and allowances: Privacy Impact report 
• Review of the Statistical Measurement of Human Capital

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