Compare Study Options

About the Compare Study Options tool

• If you get a search result saying “No data available”, there may still be people studying in this area and study level. This is because results for searches that correspond to a small number of graduates or for which all students study at a single provider aren’t shown, to avoid the risk of data for an individual being identified.
• The results show what graduates earned and did between 1 April 2014 and 31 March 2016 (the 2015 and 2016 tax years).
• Find out more about the data used in this tool
• Earnings have been converted to 2016 dollars to adjust for inflation.
• Earnings are median salaries. This is the halfway point in the ranking of earnings – so not everyone has earned this amount. Half of graduates have earned more than this amount and half have earned less.
• Earnings are actual annual (gross) earnings and do not take account of hours of work. This means earnings will be understated for any qualification/field of study where there are significant numbers of young graduates in part-time work.
• All results are for young, domestic graduates. Young graduates range from 21 years or under for certificate-level qualifications, to 29 years or under for Doctorates. Graduates are only included in the results in those years where they spent at least three months in New Zealand.
• Earnings data only reflects graduates that have work as their main activity, with graduates in further training and on benefits excluded.