ABOUT University of Auckland

Founded in 1883, Auckland is the country’s largest university with over 40,000 students, nearly 10,000 of whom graduate annually. Today, the University of Auckland is the largest university in New Zealand, hosting over 40,000 students on five Auckland campuses. We opened the Newmarket Campus in May 2015, featuring extensively refurbished buildings and a new large-scale structures hall for the Faculty of Engineering, with space for some Faculty of Science activities. The $200 million investment in the Science tower on the corner of Symonds and Wellesley Streets allowed the University to co-locate the Schools of Environment and Psychology with most of the other schools in the Faculty of Science. The University Council approved the business case for a new $250 million Faculty of Engineering building on the City Campus which was completed in 2019. This allow the University to accommodate the very rapid growth within the Engineering faculty in line with national priorities and government investment. Given our objective of attracting students of high academic potential from throughout New Zealand and around the world, we have continued to invest heavily in student accommodation. The 264-bed apartment-style Carlaw Park stage II development opened and a new block of 343 studio apartments in Symonds Street was completed. Both of these are public-private partnerships. We took ownership of the long-established Grafton Hall in a generous arrangement with the Presbyterian Methodist Congregational Foundation. This saw the $8.4m net proceeds of the sale of surrounding properties owned by the Foundation returned to University students through an endowed scholarships programme. Most recently, the ‘For all our futures’ campaign has provided the funding and support we need to have a lasting impact on the challenges and opportunities we all face in a complex and rapidly changing world.