Recipients of student allowances in New Zealand

By sub-sector and gender, 2021, number of students

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2021, Measure: Student allowances recipients
Sub-sector	Gender	Number of students
Universities	Female	20,207
Polytechnics	Female	10,697
Wānanga	Female	1,370
Private training establishments	Female	5,253
Other	Female	443
Universities	Male	13,502
Polytechnics	Male	7,289
Wānanga	Male	544
Private training establishments	Male	3,490
Other	Male	283
Universities	Gender Diverse	185
Polytechnics	Gender Diverse	134
Wānanga	Gender Diverse	18
Private training establishments	Gender Diverse	89
Other	Gender Diverse	6

From 2020 onwards, the data used for these tables has been randomly rounded to base 3.

Tertiary Education Resources: Student Allowances 2021

At URL provided, download 'Student allowances 2021' Excel file.

From the dataset Tertiary Education Resources: Student Allowances 2021, this data was extracted:

July 2022

This dataset contains statistics relating to the number and types of students receiving Student Allowances, and the amounts received.

Student allowance data is sourced from the Ministry of Social Development.