Students enrolled in universities in New Zealand

By provider, 2025, thousands of students enrolled (both domestic and international)

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2025, Sub-sector: Universities, Qualification: Total, Origin of student: Total
Provider	Number of tertiary students
University of Auckland	49,255
University of Waikato	17,185
Massey University	26,140
Victoria University of Wellington	21,015
University of Canterbury	23,230
Lincoln University	4,890
University of Otago	21,485
Auckland University of Technology	26,840

Notes

Students are counted in each qualification type/level they enrol in, so the sum of the various types/levels may not add to the total.
Students are counted in each qualification type/NZQF level they enrol in, so the sum of the various types/levels may not add to the total.
Students are counted in each provider they enrol in, so the sum of the various providers may not add to the total.

Public providers includes universities, institutes of technology/polytechnics, and wānanga.

International students are those studying here without New Zealand/Australian citizenship or permanent residence status. Students studying off-shore at tertiary education providers that are registered in New Zealand are considered international students unless they hold New Zealand citizenship.

Definitions

Domestic students: those studying here with New Zealand/Australian citizenship or permanent residence status.
International students: those studying here without New Zealand/Australian citizenship or permanent residence status. Students studying off-shore at tertiary education providers that are registered in New Zealand are considered international students unless they hold New Zealand citizenship.

Data calculation/treatment

Data relates to students enrolled at any time during the year with a tertiary education provider in formal qualifications of greater than 0.03 EFTS (more than one week's full-time duration).

Students are counted in each group they identify with, so the sum of the various groups may not add to the total.
Totals also include those students with unknown values.
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 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.

Exclusions

Data excludes all non-formal learning and on-job industry training.

Data provided by

Ministry of Education

Dataset name

Tertiary Education Participation: Provider based enrolments 2025

Webpage:

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

How to find the data

At URL provided, download the file 'Provider-based enrolments'.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: Tertiary Education Participation: Provider based enrolments 2025

From the dataset Tertiary Education Participation: Provider based enrolments 2025, this data was extracted:

Sheet: ENR.31
Range: E4:O99
Provided: 1,056 data points

This data forms the table Tertiary Education - Domestic and international students by sub-sector, provider, and qualification type/level 2025.

Dataset originally released on:

March 2026

About this dataset

These statistics relate to students enrolled in tertiary education providers by a range of demographic and other characteristics.

Students enrolled in universities in New Zealand

By provider, 2025, thousands of students enrolled (both domestic and international)

About this data

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