Description

You can get your degree at the University of Waikato 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.

The University of Waikato is located in the scenic river city of Hamilton, New Zealand 's fourth largest city in the central area of the North Island. The city is noted for its parks and river walkways, easy access to outdoors activities (skiing, whitewater rafting, hiking, caving, climbing, kayaking to name a few), a flourishing music, art and cafe culture.

The University of Waikato is one of New Zealand's most modern and innovative universities, based in the river city of Hamilton, with a satellite campus located in Tauranga. The University of Waikato believes in innovation and forward thinking and is constantly developing programmes to cater to the worlds changing industry environment.

Highlights

* The University of Waikato holds the *Triple Crown accreditation; AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA. Only 51 out of 3,900 university business schools worldwide have that distinction.
* Ranked in the top 400 universities in the world (THE 2010)
* Academic regulations give students flexibility to combine major and supporting subjects according to their individual interests and abilities.

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

Scholarships are Available

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