People employed or contracted by universities in New Zealand

By gender and designation, 2025, number of people

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2025, Employment status: Total, Sub-sector: Total Universities, Unit: Number of staff
Designation	Gender	Number of people
Academic staff	Female	5,535
Academic staff	Male	4,695
Academic staff	Another gender	195
Research staff	Female	2,495
Research staff	Male	1,500
Research staff	Another gender	100
Other staff	Female	10,550
Other staff	Male	5,630
Other staff	Another gender	250

Data provided by

Ministry of Education

Dataset name

Tertiary Education Resources: Staffing 2025

Webpage:

https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/tertiary-staffing

How to find the data

At URL provided, select 'Staffing 2025' under the 'Staffing' heading.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: Tertiary Education Resources: Staffing 2025

From the dataset Tertiary Education Resources: Staffing 2025, this data was extracted:

Sheet: HNR.7
Range: F6:AI189
Provided: 5,520 data points

This data forms the table Tertiary Education - Staff employed or contracted by tertiary education providers by sub-sector, designation, gender 2016–2025.

Dataset originally released on:

June 2026

About this dataset

At the end of every year the Ministry collects aggregated staff numbers (headcount and full-time equivalent) by a range of characteristics such as full-time or part-time status, sub-sector, staff-type (academic, research and other staff), gender, ethnic group, and age group.

Method of collection/Data provider

These workforce returns came from 8 universities, 15 polytechnics, 3 wānanga and 168 private training establishments (PTEs).

People employed or contracted by universities in New Zealand

By gender and designation, 2025, number of people

About this data

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