Students completing honours or postgraduate diplomas and certificates in New Zealand
Both domestic and international, by education provider, 2025
| Provider | Number of students completing qualifications |
|---|---|
| University of Auckland | 3,065 |
| University of Waikato | 680 |
| Massey University | 1,515 |
| Victoria University of Wellington | 630 |
| University of Canterbury | 1,035 |
| Lincoln University | 270 |
| University of Otago | 1,355 |
| Auckland University of Technology | 965 |
| Manukau Institute of Technology and Unitec | 25 |
| Ara Institute of Canterbury | 70 |
| Eastern Institute of Technology | 115 |
| Wellington Institute of Technology | 0 |
| Universal College of Learning | 5 |
| Manukau Institute of Technology | 5 |
| Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology | 30 |
| Northland Polytechnic | 0 |
| Otago Polytechnic | 105 |
| Whitireia and WelTec | 235 |
| Southern Institute of Technology | 95 |
| Western Institute of Technology Taranaki | 0 |
| Waikato Institute of Technology | 80 |
| Open Polytechnic | 0 |
| Tai Poutini Polytechnic | 0 |
| Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology | 40 |
| Te Wānanga o Aotearoa | 90 |
| Te Wānanga o Raukawa | 55 |
| Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi | 45 |
Notes
Students who complete a qualification that can be assigned to more than one field have been counted in each field, so the sum of the various fields may not add to the total.
Students are counted in each sub-sector they complete a qualification, so the sum of the various sub-sectors may not add to the total.
Totals also include those students with unknown values.
Definitions
Domestic students are those studying here with New Zealand/Australian citizenship or permanent residence status.
Limitations of the data
Data in this table, including totals, have been rounded to the nearest 5 to protect the privacy of individuals, so the sum of individual counts may not add to the total.
Inclusions
Data relates to students completing a formal qualification at a tertiary education provider. It excludes on-job industry training.
Data includes those private training establishments that received Student Achievement Component funding, and/or had students with student loans or allowances, and/or Youth Guarantee programmes.
Changes to data collection/processing
Te Pūkenga - The New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology (NZIST) was established in 2020 as part of reforms of vocational education. It brings together the existing 16 Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) into one organisation. The subsector label Te Pūkenga takes the place of Institutes of technology and polytechnics used in previously published tables.
Data provided by
Dataset name
Tertiary Education Retention & Achievement: Students gaining qualifications from tertiary education providers 2025
Webpage:
https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/achievement-and-attainment
How to find the data
At URL provided, download 'Students gaining qualifications from tertiary education providers 2016-2025'.
Import & extraction details
File as imported: Tertiary Education Retention & Achievement: Students gaining qualifications from tertiary education providers 2025
From the dataset Tertiary Education Retention & Achievement: Students gaining qualifications from tertiary education providers 2025, this data was extracted:
- Sheet: COM.21
- Range:
E4:O102 - Provided: 1,089 data points
This data forms the table Tertiary Education - Domestic and international students completing qualifications by sub-sector, provider and qualification 2025.
Dataset originally released on:
July 2026
About this dataset
These are statistics relating to qualification completion for students at tertiary education providers by a range of demographic and study-related characteristics.