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Welcome to Victoria University of Wellington -Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika a Māui. This website provides detailed information about the University and its activities and accomplishments. For more than a century, the University has developed a tradition of strong international links in teaching and research and programmes of national significance and international quality. Victoria is committed to providing students with opportunities to acquire, understand and apply disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge, as well as related skills and attitudes, and to enhance their personal development. Situated in the capital city across four campuses, Victoria can take advantage of connections and values its relationships with iwi, business, government, the judiciary, public and private research organisations, cultural organisations and resources, other universities and tertiary providers and the international community through the diplomatic corps.  Wellington has a reputation for being a vibrant city where learning doesn't stop at the University's doors.

Victoria College was founded through an Act of Parliament in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, and named in her honour. The University’s four pioneering Professors – Thomas Easterfield, Hugh MacKenzie, Richard Maclaurin and John Rankine Brown – arrived in the capital in 1899 to take up their duties. For the first few years, lectures took place in rented accommodation in the city while a debate raged over where the new University’s home should be built. Eventually, the College Council decided to build on ‘six vertical acres’ in Kelburn, the site of the Kelburn Campus today.

In 1904, the first stage of what is today known as the Hunter Building was begun, and the building was opened in 1906 by the Governor of New Zealand, Lord Plunket. A pattern of growth was quickly established. Student numbers rose from 254 in 1905 to over 700 in 1923, with three additions made to the building over this period. A reputation for fine teaching and research also grew, thanks to the efforts of early academics such as Professors ‘Tommy’ Hunter, J. C. Beaglehole and George von Zedlitz. In 1961, the University of New Zealand system (degree candidates were presented to an independent body that assessed all candidates throughout the country) was dissolved, and from 1962 Victoria College became Victoria University of Wellington, an independent university.

Faculties:

• Faculty of Architecture and Design
• Faculty of Commerce and Administration
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Graduate Research
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Science
• Toihuarewa
  

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