It has been a slow start to the year for Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology with student enrolments tracking slightly behind previous years.
But the polytechnic's chief executive, Dr Leon Fourie, says the overall indications are 2017 enrolments will be similar to the last three years.
Figures provided to the Rotorua Daily Post show Toi Ohomai has 2025 equivalent full time students enrolled, down 135 from this time last year.
"Here at Mokoia [campus in Rotorua], we are also experiencing changing patterns of enrolments with more enrolments at levels 3-9 and less enrolments at level 1-2.
"Given these changes, there has been a delay in some enrolments being processed and therefore we are slightly below 2016's enrolment numbers at this time. However we expect to recover this ground as people return from holidays before semester one starts," Dr Fourie said.