Source: Tertiary Education Commission
Last updated 4 July 2025
Last updated 4 July 2025
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We publish information on the performance of tertiary education organisations (TEOs) based on agreed educational performance indicators (EPIs).
We publish information on the performance of tertiary education organisations (TEOs) based on agreed educational performance indicators (EPIs).
Educational performance indicator reports
Our educational performance indicator (EPI) reports are designed to help TEOs manage and monitor their own performance and to deliver on their agreed tertiary education services.
Provider-based EPI interactive charts
Provider-based educational performance indicator interactive charts
For Te Pūkenga, universities, wānanga and private training establishments the provider-based interactive charts provide information about the educational performance of individual TEOs. They include performance information for:
first year retention rate
cohort-based qualification completion rate
course completion rate
progression rate.
You can view these EPIs through provider-based interactive charts, which allow you to select and display data across various filters (eg, gender, ethnicity, TEO, part-time/full-time). Note that EPIs for work-based learning are currently unavailable to view as interactive charts. These are available as EPI reports (detailed below).
EPI reports – current methodology
Educational performance indicator reports – current methodology
For providers who deliver work-based learning, the EPI reports provide information about the educational performance of individual TEOs. They include performance information for:
first year retention rate for apprentices
cohort-based programme completion rate
credit achievement rate.
EPI reports – previous methodology
Educational performance indicator reports – previous methodology
For providers who deliver work-based learning, the EPI reports using our previous methodology provide information about the educational performance of individual TEOs. They include performance information for:
programme completion rate
credit achievement rate
For Te Pūkenga, universities, wānanga and private training establishments, the EPI reports using our previous methodology provide information about the educational performance of individual TEOs across four EPIs:
retention rate
EFTS – weighted qualification completion rate
course completion rate
progression rate.
The EPI reports also show information about learners at the TEO.
Methodologies
Current methodologies
The documents below describe the methodology for calculating EPIs that were introduced in 2015 and 2016.
TEOs reporting through the SDR:
TEOs reporting through the ITR:
Previous methodologies
The documents below describe the previous methodologies for calculating the EPIs we used from 2009 until 2016.
EPIs for SAC-funded organisations (October 2014): Educational Performance Indicators: definitions and methodology – Student Achievement Component and Youth Guarantee funds reported through the SDR – version 8 (PDF 491 KB)
EPIs for Youth Guarantee-funded organisations (Oct 2014): Educational Performance Indicators: Definitions and methodology – Student Achievement Component and Youth Guarantee funds reported through the SDR – version 8 (PDF 491 KB)
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