Unitec New Zealand

Unitec New Zealand (Māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Wairaka) is a major polytechnic tertiary education institute situated in Auckland, New Zealand. The main campus is situated in Mt Albert, while a secondary campus is situated in Henderson. Unitec offers degree programs in arts, business and technical subjects at the bachelors, masters, and doctoral level. Unitec is a member of the International Association of Universities.

History
Unitec was founded on the site in 1976 and was originally called "Carrington Polytechnic" and changed to "Institute of Technology". The name of the institution was changed again in March 2004 from "Unitec Institute of Technology" to "Unitec New Zealand".

Every November graduating students from the design, architecture and landscape architecture programmes have an exhibition of their work in teaching and exhibition spaces and galleries in the former Carrington Hospital building, now called Building 1. Students of the Film and Television School create short films annually, two of which have won the NZ Kodak Filmschool Competition for 2005 and 2006.

Qualifications

 * 2 doctorate degrees
 * 15 masters degrees
 * 17 postgraduate and graduate diplomas and certificates
 * 21 bachelors degree programmes with 28 majors
 * 72 diploma and certificate programmes

Campuses
The Mt Albert campus on Carrington Rd has 55 hectares of grounds and is the location for the Unitec marae, which is currently being developed by marae-builder and artist Lyonel Grant. Acting, dance, and writing and directing students from the Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts have regular performances of dance pieces and plays at the theatre and dance studios on campus.

The area on which Unitec's main campus is located was formerly home to the Whau Mental Hospital, later also known as the"Carrington Hospital". The hospital building, an imposing brick Italianate-Romanesque structure, located at the northern end of what is now the Unitec campus. The hospital building was the largest building in the colony when it was built in the 1860s. The hospital was decommissioned during the early 1990s, and the building is now part of the Unitec campus.

In 2006, Unitec opened its new Waitakere campus in the centre of Henderson. The campus has recently been extended to include a new state-of-the art learning centre and library. The campus is a joint development with the Waitakere City Council and includes the new Waitakere Central Library. Unitec’s Waitakere campus offers mainly business, language, and health and community studies programs.