Source: Tertiary Education Commission
Last updated 23 May 2025
Last updated 23 May 2025
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Funding rates are used to allocate funding to tertiary education organisations, and may be based on learner numbers, hours or EFTS. These funding rates vary for different funds and years.
Funding rates are used to allocate funding to tertiary education organisations, and may be based on learner numbers, hours or EFTS. These funding rates vary for different funds and years.
The ‘Funding rates for 2025 and 2026’ spreadsheet contains 2025 and 2026 funding rates for the following funds:
DQ7-10: Delivery at Levels 7 (degree) to 10 on the NZQCF
DQ3-7: Delivery at Levels 3 to 7 (non-degree) on the NZQCF: delivery component, learner component, and strategic component
DQ1-2: Delivery at Levels 1 and 2 on the NZQCF
ACE: ACE in Schools and ACE in TEIs
ELT: English Language Teaching
L&N: Intensive Literacy and Numeracy, and TEO-led Workplace Literacy and Numeracy
Gateway: cohort number rates, and rates per learner
YG: Youth Guarantee, and YG Exceptional Travel
Equity: Equity Funding for DQ1-2 and DQ7-10
The spreadsheet also contains a table of DQ3-7 rates by course classification for the purposes of TEOs submitting combined DQ3-7 and DQ7-10 commitment documents.
Funding rates for 2026
We have developed some examples to show how Budget 2025 targeted tuition subsidies have been calculated for 2026. This is because both decreases and increases apply to some rates.
These examples explain how we have calculated the 2026 funding rates for DQ3-7 and DQ7-10.
Rates will be finalised following consultation on the 2026 funding mechanisms later this year.
2026 funding rates including targeted rate examples (PDF 392 KB)
Funding rates for 2025 and 2026
Funding rates for 2025 and 2026 (XLSX 72 KB)
Historical funding rates
Funding rates for 2024 and 2025 (XLSX 62 KB)
2025 funding rates increase:
For 2025 funding rates, there will be a general 2.5% increase from the 2024 funding rates.
Delivery at Levels 7 (degree) to 10 on the NZQCF (DQ7-10) will include the additional 4% applied in 2024 and continued into 2025.
The Mātauranga and te reo Māori DQ3-7 and DQ7-10 funding rate includes the additional 3.75% increase applied to the 2024 base funding rate, which includes 5%, and an additional 4% rate increase for DQ7-10 for 2024. For 2025 to 2027, there is a 3.75% increase applied to the 2024 base funding rate, which includes 5% for DQ3-7 and DQ7-10 only. This is part of the total 15% increase being funded and implemented over four years.
Funding rates for 2023 and 2024 (XLSX 51 KB)
