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Massey University (Maori: Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa) is New Zealand's largest university with approximately 40,000 students. It has campuses in Palmerston North (sites at Turitea and Hokowhitu), Wellington (in the suburb of Mt Cook) and Auckland (at Albany). In addition, Massey offers most of its degrees extramurally within New Zealand and internationally. It has the nation's largest business college. Research is undertaken on all three campuses.

It is the only New Zealand university that offers degrees in aviation, in dispute resolution, and in veterinary medicine. Having recently been accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association, Massey veterinary school now has the distinction of having its degree recognised not only by New Zealand, but also the United States, Australia, Canada, and Britain, as well as most other countries in the world, an honour shared by only a handful of other institutions.

New Zealand's first satellite, KiwiSAT is currently being designed and built by New Zealand Radio Amateurs with the support of Massey, especially in space environment testing.

History

Massey University has undergone many name changes and mergers. The New Zealand Agricultural College Act of 1926 established the sixth college of the University of New Zealand (UNZ) at Turitea, across the Manawatu River from Palmerston North City. It drew from the agriculture departments of Victoria University College in Wellington and Auckland University College.

In 1927 the college was renamed Massey Agricultural College after former New Zealand Prime Minister Bill Massey. The Massey Agricultural College Committee first met on 1 February, 1927 and the Batchelar property, near the present Turitea site, was purchased that June. The college was officially opened for tuition on 20 March 1928 by O. J. Hawkin.

With the demise of the UNZ in 1961, it became Massey College, part of Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). In 1960 a branch of VUW was established in Palmerston North to teach students extramurally. In 1963 this branch amalgamated with Massey College to form Massey University College of Manawatu, and on 25 September, the Massey University Act 1963 made it an independent university as Massey University of Manawatu, with its present name being adopted in 1966.

In 1993 the Auckland campus was created and has grown rapidly in a rapidly developing part of Auckland's North Shore City. In 1996 the Palmerston North College of Education at Hokowhitu (formerly known as Palmerston North Teachers College) merged with Massey. In 1999 the Wellington campus was created through a merger with the Wellington Polytechnic.

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Contact Massey University

 


Telephone

0800 MASSEY or +64 6 350 5701

Facsimile

+64 6 350 5618

TXT

5222

Email

contact@massey.ac.nz

Online form

Information request

Internet chat

chat.massey.ac.nz

 


International students

 


Telephone

+64 6 350 5599

Facsimile

+64 6 350 5698

Email

international@massey.ac.nz

 


Staff and employment enquiries

 


Telephone

06 350 5299

Facsimile

06 350 5615

 


 


Email

hrs@massey.ac.nz

 


Auckland Campus

 


Telephone

09 414 0800

Facsimile

09 443 9704

 


 


Albany Expressway

Private Bag 102-904

Albany

North Shore Mail Centre

 


Auckland

 


New Zealand

 


Palmerston North Campus

 


Telephone

06 356 9099

Facsimile

06 350 5618

 


 


Tennent Drive

Private Bag 11 222

Palmerston North

Palmerston North

 


New Zealand

 


 


 


Wellington Campus

 


Telephone

04 801 5799

Facsmilie

04 801 2692

 


 


Wallace Street

PO Box 756

Mt Cook

Wellington

Wellington

New Zealand

 


 




 


 

 

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