In order to undertake postgraduate study, you must complete all the admission
requirements, which includes providing all the necessary documents.
View our step-by-step guide to the postgraduate admission process
Study at postgraduate level means making a commitment to both personal and professional
development as well as to new and challenging academic work. Postgraduate study
is about investigating, analysing, critically evaluating, reflecting and responding
to the challenges posed by practice and the academic environment.
Programme structures are intended to be flexible and provide opportunities for nurses
to design programmes of study that are appropriate for the learning goals they wish
to achieve and are relevant to their practice areas.
For more information on postgraduate study please
see:
More information on the programmes offered by the School of Nursing:
Masters programmes
Registered nurses who do not have previous tertiary level qualifications but have
over two years of professional experience are welcome to apply for either a postgraduate
certificate or postgraduate diploma.
There are two distinct masters qualification pathways within the postgraduate nursing
programme structure. Within each of these pathways there are three qualification
steps. These qualifications are all at a postgraduate level
and each step can potentially
contribute
to the next step. The qualification steps are:
Please click on the programme link below for more information about the content,
structure and duration of the different programmes:
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Bachelor (Honours) programme
Students with a Bachelor of Nursing from The University of Auckland are welcome
to apply for a Bachelor of Nursing (Honours). This programme requires 120 credit
points, which equates with a full-time academic year.
Please click on the programme link below for more information about the content,
structure and duration of the Bachelor (Honours) programme:
Bachelor
of Nursing (Honours)
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Explaining credit points
At The University of Auckland, 120 credit points equates with a full-time academic
year. Most postgraduate courses in the School of Nursing are 15 points, some are
30 points. One full-time semester is therefore 60 points.
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Programme design
There is a wide choice of courses available under each programme. It is
recognised that all nurses require individual course advice. We designed
different pathways as a guide that are appropriate for our areas of speciality,
eg, renal nursing.
Read more information
about the speciality pathways
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