🇳🇿 Ministry of Education data · 2025
Every New Zealand university — and how international they are.
All 26 universities, polytechnics and wānanga, with 341,045 students between them — 48,195 of them international. If you're coming from overseas, that share tells you a lot about where you'll land.
Universitys (8)
Degree-granting research universities. New Zealand has eight.
University of Auckland
Auckland
- Students
- 49,255
- International
- 23.9%
Auckland University of Technology
Auckland
- Students
- 26,840
- International
- 19.7%
Massey University
Auckland
- Students
- 26,140
- International
- 21.5%
University of Canterbury
Canterbury
- Students
- 23,230
- International
- 11.9%
University of Otago
Otago
- Students
- 21,485
- International
- 13.2%
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington
- Students
- 21,015
- International
- 15.9%
University of Waikato
Waikato
- Students
- 17,185
- International
- 30.4%
Lincoln University
Canterbury
- Students
- 4,895
- International
- 29.2%
Polytechnic / Institute of Technologys (15)
Vocational and applied institutes offering certificates, diplomas and applied degrees.
Open Polytechnic
—
- Students
- 35,745
- International
- 0.7%
Ara Institute of Canterbury
Canterbury
- Students
- 10,140
- International
- 6.3%
Southern Institute of Technology
Southland
- Students
- 8,500
- International
- 5.3%
Eastern Institute of Technology
Hawkes Bay
- Students
- 7,910
- International
- 25.9%
Manukau Institute of Technology
Auckland
- Students
- 7,655
- International
- 8.9%
Waikato Institute of Technology
Waikato
- Students
- 7,230
- International
- 14.2%
Unitec New Zealand
Auckland
- Students
- 7,095
- International
- 24%
Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
Bay of Plenty
- Students
- 6,970
- International
- 11.5%
Otago Polytechnic
Otago
- Students
- 6,600
- International
- 14.5%
Whitireia & WelTec
Wellington
- Students
- 4,765
- International
- 8.1%
Universal College of Learning
Manawatū-Wanganui
- Students
- 4,185
- International
- 5.5%
Nelson Marlborough Inst of Technology
—
- Students
- 3,690
- International
- 10.8%
Northland Polytechnic
Northland
- Students
- 2,410
- International
- 4.4%
Western Institute of Technology Taranaki
—
- Students
- 2,030
- International
- 6.2%
Tai Poutini Polytechnic
West Coast
- Students
- 650
- International
- 4.6%
Wānangas (3)
Public tertiary institutions teaching in a Māori cultural context, accountable to iwi and hapū.
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