Universities in New Zealand
The universities in New Zealand had a total of 132,915 students in 2016, with the smallest university, Lincoln University having 2,925 students in 2016 and the University of Auckland being the largest in the country with 33,105 students.
The University of Otago in Dunedin , founded in 1869 , is considered the oldest university in the country . The youngest university is the Auckland University of Technology , founded in 2000 , with origins as a technical school going back to 1895.
Universities
| university | place | founding | Students (2016) |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Auckland | Auckland | 1883 |
33.105
|
| Auckland University of Technology | Auckland | 2000 |
19,740
|
| Massey University | Palmerston North , Auckland , Wellington | 1927 |
18,925
|
| University of Otago | Dunedin | 1869 |
18,505
|
| Victoria University of Wellington | Wellington | 1897 |
17,455
|
| University of Canterbury | Christchurch | 1873 |
12,510
|
| University of Waikato | Hamilton | 1964 |
9,750
|
| Lincoln University | Lincoln , Canterbury | 1990 |
2,925
|
The University of New Zealand was an organization established by law, under which all academic educational institutions in New Zealand were brought together from 1870 and was finally given up again in 1961 in favor of a federal university teaching company.
Web links
- Institutions / programs. Studienstiftung - Institut Ranke-Heinemann, accessed on September 10, 2015 (English).
- DAAD country information - New Zealand. Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst eV (DAAD), accessed on September 10, 2015 (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Provider-based Equivalent Full-time Students . (XLS; 1.3 MB) In: Education Counts . Ministry of Education , 2016, archived from the original on February 2, 2018 ; accessed on February 11, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).