Description

You can get your degree at the University of Canterbury with GlobaLinks Learning Abroad, formerly known as AustraLearn. Your study abroad experience is all about you!

GlobaLinks Learning Abroad is here to assist you in your path of discovery throughout the study abroad experience. We design our programs so that our local and overseas staff are available 24 hours a day to support you in health and safety matters and are also key in enhancing your study abroad experience. Through our planned activities and resident directors personal recommendations for activities you can undertake while abroad, you will be directed on a path of personal, academic, cultural, social, and professional discovery. This team, which supports you throughout your experience, will ensure that you have the most fulfilling experience possible one that is unique to you! So What Will You Discover?

GlobaLinks Learning Abroad assists students with degree abroad opportunities at more than 35 universities in Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. Our expertise has developed from our well-established relationships with our partner universities and more than 20 years of sending students abroad. These top-ranked universities have appointed us to provide you with information on living and studying in at their university, and we can easily refer you to the applications and details you need in order to apply to the universities of your choice. Enrollment is ultimately determined by each institution.

We are here to provide you with a list of bundled services, including help with your housing, travel and living abroad. We will be working with you from the time you apply to the time you have accepted a university offer.

Christchurch is the largest city in New Zealand's South Island and is known as the Garden City. It lies on the coastal edge of the Canterbury Plains, close to both sea and mountains, and offers cultural and recreational opportunities, access to national parks and wilderness areas, and several ski-fields and silvery beaches within an hour and a half's drive from campus.

Since its establishment in 1873 the University of Canterbury has gained an international reputation for academic excellence in teaching and research. Its undergraduate and graduate programs are recognized across the world and aim to foster intellectual independence, critical thinking, and professional excellence in every field. The University offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs, in Arts (Humanities and Social Sciences), Commerce, Education (including Teaching) Engineering, Law, Music, Fine Arts, Forestry, Science, Social Work, Speech & Language Therapy, and Sport Coaching.

Highlights

* The University of Canterbury has the only School of Forestry in the country providing an internationally acclaimed degree.
* The University of Canterbury has a leadership role in astronomy and manages New Zealands largest telescope at one of its field station.
* University of Canterbury has also taken the initiative to become a partner in the SALT project, which will have a state of the art telescope built in South Africa.

Subject Areas

Cost in US$:

varies by degree

This Program is open to

American and Canadian Participants.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Apartment/Flat
• Group living
• Independent living

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently

Application Process Involves

• Transcript

Typically The Application Process Time is

1- 2 weeks

AustraLearn's Mission Statement

GlobaLinks Learning Abroad seeks to foster the development of future leaders who, through an intercultural learning opportunity, gain a greater respect for and understanding of the relationship which exists between North American and the rest of the world in the context of the larger global community. GlobaLinks Learning Abroad achieves this by exposing students, advisors, and faculty to internationally recognized universities and other educational organizations through the promotion of affordable academic and cultural opportunities world-wide.

Year Founded

1989