The University of Canterbury is ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide with Civil & Structural Engineering and Geography in the world’s top 100 subject rankings and a further 13 subjects ranked in world’s top 200 (QS World University Rankings & Rankings by Subject 2018).

The University of Canterbury specializes in:

• Civil and Structural Engineering
  
• Law and Business
  
• Education 
  

UC has New Zealand's biggest research centre, there are in total 17 research centres in UC, each of them have joint research programs with other universities all over the world.

1st NZ University to receive the prestigious QS 5 -star rating for internationally renowned researchand teaching.

UC's cutting-edge research facilities, include:

• Biomolecular Interaction Centre
• Gateway Antarctica: Centre for Antarctic Studies and Research
• Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HITLabNZ)
• MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
• New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour
• NZi3
• Social Science Research Centre
• Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management

For more information visit UC's website for international students.

If your students don’t meet the academic or English language requirements, our partner organisations CCEL School of Language and UC International College offer several programmes to get your students ready to study at UC- so close to UC you are almost there!