Massey University

📚 Courses & programs at Massey University

Massey University is best known for Agriculture, Aviation, IT. Popular programs for international students include:

• Master of IT
• Master of Analytics
• MBA
• Master of Engineering
• Master of Aviation

Class profile: Moderately selective.

✅ Entry requirements

💰 Fees & cost of studying

Plan your budget for tuition + living + health insurance + the visa fee. Compare funding with the free scholarship finder.

📝 Step-by-step admission process

1. Choose Mar or Jul intake
2. Meet IELTS 6.5; SOP, CV, transcripts
3. Apply online
4. Receive offer of place → pay tuition
5. Get receipt for visa
6. Apply for student visa

📄 Documents checklist

• Transcripts
• Statement of Purpose
• CV
• IELTS
• Passport
• Proof of funds
• Offer of place

🛂 Student visa & post-study work · New Zealand

• Student visa: Fee-paying student visa
• Work while studying: 20 hrs/week during term
• Post-study work: Post-study work visa: up to 3 years

📅 Intakes & deadlines

All figures are indicative and change year to year — always confirm on the official site (massey.ac.nz) before applying.

How Massey University compares in New Zealand

The figures on this page mean little on their own. Set against the 6 other New Zealand universities in our dataset, they say something more useful about where an application to Massey University is likely to be won or lost.

• Selectivity. An indicative acceptance rate of about 58% against a median of 55% across the 6 other New Zealand universities in our dataset. 4 of them are harder to get into than Massey University. It sits on the more accessible side of its national peer group, which usually means a complete, early, well-matched application matters more than an exceptional one.
• Rank in context. QS #239, against a peer median of #261; 2 New Zealand universities rank above it here. Rank is worth exactly this much and no more — it is driven by institution-wide research output and reputation surveys, not by the department you would actually join, so treat it as a coarse filter and judge the programme on its own page.
• English bar. IELTS 6.5 against a peer median of 6.5. That is exactly the national norm, so a score built for this application should travel across your whole shortlist. Equivalents: TOEFL 85, PTE 58.

Programme areas: Master of IT · Master of Analytics · MBA · Master of Engineering · Master of Aviation. Entry requirements are set per programme, not per university, so the figures above are the institutional baseline — a competitive department inside an accessible university can run far tighter than the headline rate suggests.

Practical order of work for Massey University: clear the English requirement first, because it gates everything and is the only part of the application you fully control; then confirm which of the Feb and Jul intakes you are targeting, since the typical deadline is Rolling and funding decisions usually close before admission decisions; then build the application around one specific programme rather than the institution. Budget the application fee of $50–100 per programme, and living costs of NZD 20,000/yr (visa requirement) on top of tuition of NZD 38k/yr.

Figures here are indicative and compiled for comparison. Acceptance rates in particular are institution-level estimates and move year to year — confirm anything you are deciding on against the university's official pages.