The number of schools at Otago Polytechnic has shrunk following two mergers over the last month.
Polytechnic communications director Mike Waddell said it had completed the merger of both its hospitality and design schools and its business and information technology (IT) schools.
The mergers were not about ''cost cutting'' and were instead about sharing resources and the advantages that came with having larger schools, he said.
''When you have a larger entity, you have the opportunity for sharing workload.''
The ''unique'' design-led bachelor of culinary arts was an example of a programme which was a mixture between hospitality and design and there was also a cross-over between business and IT.
There had only been one job loss through the mergers, with former head of hospitality Noelle Liddy choosing to leave before the completion of the review.
Asked if there would be further job losses in the newly merged schools, he said: ''We don't believe so at this point.''
As with the rest of the polytechnic, future staffing levels would depend on student numbers.
The mergers mean there are now 11 schools at the polytechnic.