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MASSEY UNIVERSITY InternatiONAL PROSPECTUS Contents 3 Welcome 4 Massey University 6 Research 8 Study at Massey 10 Undergraduate Study 11 Postgraduate Study 12 Scholarships and Financial Aid 14 College of Business 18 College of Humanities and Social Sciences 22 College of Creative Arts 26 College of Education 28 College of Sciences 34 Centre for University Preparation and English Language Studies 35 Campus Locations 36 Auckland Campus 38 Manawatu Campus 40 Wellington Campus 42 Student Support Services and Facilities 45 New Zealand / Aotearoa 47 Essential Information for International Students 48 Apply to Study at Massey 49 Student Exchange 50 Academic Entry Requirements 53 Application Form PG MASSEY UNIVERSITY 2 CONTENTS Welcome to Massey University Massey University is New Zealand’s the nation’s leading teaching university defining University and has a long and and is host to the National Centre for proud tradition of academic and research Tertiary Teaching Excellence. excellence. Among New Zealand tertiary Each year, around four thousand institutions, Massey is unique. It draws international students from more on a rich history that mixes leadership than 100 countries find a warm and in agri-food, creativity and innovation welcoming environment at Massey and across campuses located at Auckland, an intellectual climate in which they Palmerston North and Wellington with are encouraged to excel. Our students pre-eminence in distance education experience research-led teaching, and a strong record of engagement outstanding student support services with industry and the local and and high quality facilities. Our goal international community. is that all Massey students graduate to delivering a high quality student with the mix of academic excellence Since its early beginning, senior Massey experience and assisting you on your and employment-related skills which academic and research staff have path to success. enabled the University to achieve a will see them flourish in their chosen Nau mai haere mai ki Te Kunenga ki number of New Zealand firsts. Massey careers in New Zealand or overseas. Pürehuroa. Welcome to Massey University. has New Zealand’s only Institute of Massey is New Zealand’s tertiary Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical education gateway to the world. Sciences, has pioneered and led We recognize that choosing to leave distance learning and education, your own country in order to achieve and has international recognition in academic qualifications is a life- disciplines as diverse as Finance, changing decision. I would like to Agriculture, Food Technology, Design, warmly invite you to join our THE HONOURABLE STEVE MAHAREY Science and Engineering, Education, University and be part of our diverse CNZM MA Social Sciences and Humanities, and and stimulating student community. Vice Chancellor Aviation. The University is recognized as I want to assure you of our commitment Massey University PG MASSEY UNIVERSITY WELCOME 3 Massey University New Zealand’s Defining University PG MASSEY UNIVERSITY 4 CONTENTS AMONGst New ZeaLand universities, Massey is uniQue. THROUGHOUT ITS MORE THAN 80-year histOry Massey has PLayed A DEFINING ROLE IN THE deveLOpment OF New ZeaLand thrOUGH its GROund-breakinG researCH, COmmitment TO innOvatiON and CLOse Links with COmmunities and industry. Mirroring New Zealand’s development Massey has witnessed more than a OFFSHORE DELIVERY from a primarily agrarian economy 40 percent rise in the number of PhDs AND JOINT VENTURES to a modern mixed-economy global in the past 10 years, with over 1,700 The University is increasing its offshore competitor, Massey was established as research masterate students and over delivery through the selective launching an agricultural college in Palmerston 1,000 doctoral students. Massey’s of key degree programmes, including: North in 1927 and awarded university success is further illustrated by Ako - Massey’s Bachelor of Aviation status in 1964. The Massey Albany Aotearoa – New Zealand’s first and only Management: Implemented in campus was established during dynamic Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence, partnership with the Singapore growth in the 1990s, and in 1998 Massey’s and by its notable achievement in Aviation Academy, and delivered in national portfolio was completed with producing the highest number of South East Asia the addition of the world-class School of completed research degrees within - Postgraduate Dispute Resolution Design and Conservatorium of Music in New Zealand. central Wellington. programmes: Delivered in Internationally, Massey University Thailand, in partnership with continues to be ranked among the top Khon Kaen University. three universities in New Zealand. - Massey’s Bachelor of Food Academic staff in many fields are Technology: Recently implemented internationally renowned, and leading- in partnership with the Singapore edge research is being undertaken Ministry of Education, and located on across the academic colleges often in the Singapore Polytechnic campus collaboration with other universities, and catering for Asia’s growing research institutions and industry. demand for food technologists. Massey has a proud record of using Today, Massey is one of New Zealand’s this expertise to work with developing largest universities with around 36,000 countries, and its focus on technology students enrolled in one of its three and business is also meeting new campuses, as well as the ‘virtual’ international demands. distance learning campus. The three campuses are well established and INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCES offer rigorous academic programmes Amongst Massey University’s many which are complementary to the international partners is China’s campus location. prestigious Peking University. Other The University is organised into 30 key strategic research alliances institutes, schools and departments include membership of the Greater which reside under 5 academic Colleges: Mekong Subregion Tertiary Education Business, Creative Arts, Education, Consortium, alongside leading Humanities and Social Sciences, and institutions and universities from Sciences. Together the Colleges offer New Zealand, Australian Cambodia, more than 200 programmes of study and Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and the in excess of 5000 classes, which are Yunnan Province of China. delivered by the robust multi-campus and multi-modal structure. PG MASSEY UNIVERSITY MASSEY UNIVERSITY 5 Research MASSEY UNIVERSITY IS A RESEARCH-LED UNIVERSITY. WE INTEND TO EXCEL IN ALL AREAS OF RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN BY THE UNIVERSITY, AND BE WORLD-LEADING IN THEORETICAL SCIENCES WITHIN OUR AREAS OF SPECIALISATION. Excellence in research and learning foot and mouth epidemic and has more Human nutrition; Biotechnology; is at the heart of everything we do at recently been working with agencies Structural biology; NMR research; Massey University. Today, the University in Hong Kong to understand and Nanomaterials; Applied and has the greatest concentration of identify ways of controlling bird flu; the computation mathematics; Social research active staff in New Zealand world-renowned Allan Wilson Centre work and social policy; Public health and is amongst the top three for Molecular Ecology and Evolution; (including Mäori health); Small business New Zealand universities in winning the Research School of Public Health a research; Corporate governance; external research income. multi-disciplinary public health research Educational research and development. Massey is home to many innovative team; and the Hopkirk Research and diverse research initiatives Institute, a joint venture between including: the Double Helix; New Massey and AgResearch to create a Zealand s most powerful nuclear world-leading animal health research magnetic resonance spectrometer; centre, and the largest physical the EpiCentre, Australasia’s largest concentration of animal scientists in veterinary epidemiology training and the Southern Hemisphere. research centre, which played a pivotal Key areas of research excellence at role in controlling the United Kingdom’s Massey include: Dairy research; PG MASSEY UNIVERSITY 6 RESEARCH http://research.massey.ac.nz - Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution The Centre comprises world class ecologists, evolutionary biologists and mathematicians who are working together to instigate an innovative series of research projects, ranging from those on molecular rates of evolution, biodiversity, through to molecular anthropology. - Riddet Centre: Advancing Foods and Biologicals The Centre is working in partnership with New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra and German multinational BASF to develop great-tasting, nutritious foods tailored to The University continues to extend - Centre for Social and Health people’s dietary needs and overall research capability by Outcomes Research and Evaluation taste preferences. providing researchers with world class (Humanities/Social Sciences) - Hopkirk Research Institute infrastructure and support, and by - Sleep Wake Research Centre promoting collaborative arrangements, (Humanities/Social Sciences) (Sciences/AgResearch) innovative research, and technology - New Zealand Centre for Ecological - School of Fine Arts LITMUS transfer. Massey’s world-class research Economics (Humanities/ Research Initiative (Creative Arts) facilities include New Zealand’s fastest Social Sciences) - Centre of Indigenous Governance supercomputer and state-of-the-art and Development (Humanities). X-ray crystallography facility. - Manawatu Microscopy and Imaging Centre (Sciences) UNIVERSITY RESEARCH