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 The University of Auckland is New Zealand’s largest and most comprehensive university with 38,500 students and eight faculties: Arts; Business and Economics; Creative Arts and Industries; Education; Engineering; Law; Medical and Health Sciences; and Science, offering a full range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Its graduate school is the largest in the country with some 10,500 postgraduate students.
The University has a very strong focus on research. Of the 600 leading researchers in the New Zealand tertiary sector, one-third are based at The University of Auckland. In addition to supporting two world leading research institutes – the Liggins Institute, which is involved in biomedical and clinical research, and the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, which has pioneered computer modeling of the human body – the University has developed the most successful research commercialization company in Australasia.
The University of Auckland has a strong international focus and is the only New Zealand member of Universitas 21 and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities – international consortia of research-led universities. Today more than 4,000 students from 93 countries choose to study at Auckland, while the 360° Auckland Abroad Student Exchange programme enables New Zealand students to spend one or two semesters at one of the University’s more than 90 university exchange partners around the world.
 
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Foun ded in 1869, Otago is New Zealand’s first university. It enjoys a world-wide reputation for excellence, successfully balancing the traditions of its history with modern scholarship and research. It offers a unique campus lifestyle, creating a culture of learning that reflects the special characteristics of New Zealand together with international academic values.
The University of Otago is a multi-faceted institution, whose influence spreads far beyond its campuses, contributing strongly to the culture of the nation and its economy.
An Otago education blends a traditional concern for quality with an innovative response to the needs of a modern, global society. The University is recognised as a world-class research institution with particular prowess in the health-related and biological sciences. It has also earned a reputation for its entrepreneurial acumen and commercial energy, particularly in biotechnological applications. It has been included in a list of the world’s top 130 universities compiled by The Times Higher Education Supplement and is recognised as New Zealand’s most research-intensive university.
Over the past three decades, Otago has extended into other main cities of New Zealand. While the administrative centre and the majority of academic activities remain in Dunedin, the University also has a campus in Wellington, Christchurch and Invercargill and Centres in Auckland and Wellington.
 
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 Victoria University is located in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington and is more than 100 years old. Once located entirely in the gothic Hunter Building on the Kelburn campus, the University has now spread out into the heart of Wellington city and has four city campuses.
Victoria’s seven faculties are spread across each of these four campuses. The Architecture and Design faculty is based at the Te Aro Campus, the faculties of Law and Commerce and Administration are based at the Pipitea Campus on Lambton Quay near Parliament, and the Education Faculty is based at the Karori Campus. The faculties of science, engineering, and humanities and social sciences are based on the Kelburn Campus.
Each year almost 5,000 new students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, begin their studies at Victoria. The University numbers almost 22,000 students who are taught and supported by nearly 2,000 staff. The University has an eclectic mix of students from all backgrounds with different interests, all of which contributes to the vibrant atmosphere of arts and culture that is Wellington.
 
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 Founded in 1927 as Massey Agricultural College and named after former Prime Minister William Ferguson Massey, Massey became a university in 1964.
It has campuses at Albany in Auckland, at Manawatu (sites at Turitea and Hokowhitu in Palmerston North) and in Mt Cook, Wellington. It also has staff based in Napier and New Plymouth.
The University is also the largest New Zealand provider of distance learning, known as extramural. It jointly owns and operates the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington with Victoria University of Wellington.
Academics are in five colleges – Business, Creative Arts, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Sciences.
It has 36,000 students, about half of them extramural and about a quarter postgraduate, more than 3000 staff, assets valued at over $1 billion, including 2000ha of farms used for research and teaching, and total annual revenue of $350 million.
Its strengths are in finance, veterinary science, agri-business and food technology, biological sciences, health sciences, nursing, Mäori studies, sport and exercise science, fundamental sciences and aviation.
 
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 AUT University is now in its tenth year as a University, but has been a key educational institution in Auckland for 114 years, teaching students since 1895.
A contemporary university with a reputation for industry-relevant programmes and applied research, AUT University has three campuses: its City Campus, North Shore Campus, and the new Manukau campus which will open its doors to students in 2010.
The student population at AUT University numbers 24,000, making AUT New Zealand’s fourth largest university and one that is still growing.
AUT University is leading research across some of the most dynamic fields including design, rapid prototyping, new media, bioengineering, radio astronomy, business innovation, health science and elite sports. In the latest PBRF rankings AUT's Business School ranked second in the country in the core disciplines of Accounting and Finance.
Signature courses at AUT include the Bachelor of Communication Studies, Bachelor of Health Science, Bachelor of Sport and Recreation, and Bachelor of Business. The university has five faculties: Business and Law, Health and Environmental Science, Design and Creative Technologies, Applied Humanities, and the country’s only dedicated Maori development faculty, Te Ara Poutama.
AUT University maintains strong and current links with industry. Each faculty has advisory committees with public and private sector professionals to help guide curriculum changes and provide updates on developments in the industry. Industry and research partners include Fonterra, Telecom, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Vodafone, ANZ National, AMP, New Zealand Post, the National Heart Foundation, and the Millennium Institute of Sport and Health.
AUT University also has numerous international research partnerships with other research centres such as the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia, the Department of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering at the Mayo Clinic in the US, and Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
 
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 The University of Waikato opened in 1964 – an urban university in rural heartland. Our motto is Ko Te Tangata – for the people, and has a strong partnership with Maori and in particular Tainui iwi.
The main campus is in Hamilton and there is also a campus in Tauranga, where a partnership with the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic delivers an ever-increasing range of programmes and qualifications.
More than 12,000 students make up the student population studying undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate qualifications across seven faculties. More than 2,000 students are Maori and more than 2,000 come from overseas. Waikato University Management School has triple crown accreditation for its executive education programmes and attracts high calibre arts and sports students through the Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship programme that coaches and supports elite students financially while they study.
The University has an international reputation for providing carbon-dating services, and the School of Education leads the government-funded contract to deliver professional development in adult literacy and numeracy throughout New Zealand. The School’s key research centre is the Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research (WMIER) established to undertake, support, and disseminate research relating to the broad field of education. A major centre of research excellence is being established in Tauranga in conjunction with Germany’s University of Bremen. Called INTERCOAST, postdoctoral researchers from the two countries are working together to study impacts of harbour development, protection of coastlines, management of fish stocks, habitat dynamics and ocean aquaculture. WaikatoLink is the university’s commercialisation arm and from that many businesses have been successfully spun off including Ectus, Endance and Khipu.
During the last 45 years the University of Waikato has developed a unique identity and a distinctiveness in three integrated themes: leadership, Maori and sustainability. There are scholarships and grants available that cover many subject areas at all levels of study.
 
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 The University of Canterbury, Te Whare Wänanga o Waitaha, is New Zealand's second oldest university. Established in 1873 as a college of the University of New Zealand,
Canterbury College became Canterbury University College in 1933 and the University of Canterbury in October 1957. Full autonomy was granted at the end of 1961.
UC has an impressive profile in research, learning and advanced scholarship. An array of disciplinary and interdisciplinary programmes is located across five Colleges and an independent School of Law, complemented by cross-disciplinary research centres.
The University's teaching programmes represent a heritage of solidly-grounded basic disciplines in the laboratory sciences, commerce, education, engineering, field sciences, forestry, humanities, information and communication technology, law, life sciences, social sciences and visual and performing arts. While reflecting a keenly felt university responsibility for stewardship of knowledge, these generic disciplines are also foundational to the development of specialist teaching and research programmes, particularly in interdisciplinary fields and postgraduate study.
 
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 Lincoln University has a population of around 3,500 students from more than 65 different countries studying a range of disciplines. Small classes and high teacher/student ratios mean that teachers know their students individually. The University continues to achieve international recognition for its teaching and research activities and is world renowned in areas such as agriculture and agricultural science, bio protection technologies, horticulture, viticulture and oenology, environmental management, and landscape architecture.
Lincoln University offers a range of qualifications from English Language and Foundation Studies (university entrance qualification), to Certificate/Diploma, undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level degrees. There is an extensive range of subject areas available from Tourism Management, Environmental Management and Planning, Commerce, Software and Information Technology, Social Science, Recreation Management, Agricultural Science, Landscape Architecture, Viticulture and Oenology, and applied Commerce degrees in Agriculture, Food industry, Transport and Logistics, and Valuation and Property Management.
Lincoln University is situated on a superb 50-hectare campus surrounded by the green farmlands of the Canterbury plains. Lincoln University is also less than 30 minutes drive from the centre of Christchurch and has its own Halls of Residence situated on campus.
 
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