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AUT is the second largest university in New Zealand. We have been a university since 2000, but a place of learning for 120 years and operate in accordance with the Education Act (1989).

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AUT’s vision and leadership

Strategic plan (AUT Directions)

AUT Directions describes the University’s strategic objectives.

Work at AUT

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AUT City Campus

55 Wellesley Street East

Auckland Central

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AUT North Campus

90 Akoranga Drive

Northcote, Auckland

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AUT South Campus

640 Great South Rd

Manukau, Auckland

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News

A head and shoulders picture of Guled Mire looking into the distance.

A health practitioner examines a child that has a cast on her arm.

Plussing in a pandemic: “Yes, and…”

05 Aug, 2020

COVID-19 has put “plussing” into action for Professor Kate Kearins, who believes that's because the practice is underpinned by empathy.

Why hairstyle is a human right

05 Aug, 2020

AUT law expert Khylee Quince waxes lyrical and legal about freedom, culture and identity, from peroxide punk to the rat’s tail.

Former refugee now Ivy League student

05 Aug, 2020

AUT alumnus Guled Mire says his new Fulbright NZ scholarship to study at an Ivy League university sends a strong message to other refugee kids.

Metamorphosis - from waste to fashion

04 Aug, 2020

Donna Cleveland reimagines fashion with a circular model, diverting textile waste from landfill and giving it new life in designer fashion.

Algorithm sensitive to child injury risk

04 Aug, 2020

New AUT research confirms the value of predictive risk modelling technology to support child maltreatment decisions.

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Events

Mainfreight – a Global Success Story: seminar with Don Braid (Group Managing Director of Mainfreight)

Tuesday 11 Aug, 5:30pm - 7pm

Accounting Seminar: Multilevel, Multiorganisational Accountabilities

Wednesday 12 Aug, 11am - 12pm

Auckland Regional Secondary School Japanese Speech Festival

Saturday 15 Aug, 9:30am - 2:30pm

'When the pandemic is past, what then?’: a public lecture by Professor Sharon Mazer

Tuesday 18 Aug, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Sustainability Accounting Research Network Conference

Friday 28 Aug, 9am - 4pm

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Rankings

We’re proud to be one of the world’s best modern universities – Times Higher Education has ranked us as the top millennial university in Australasia and we’re in the top 1% of universities in the world.

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