School of Nursing Postgraduate study at the School of Nursing

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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