Study in Oceania: 2 countries compared
Australia and New Zealand β what each government publishes about its universities, and what you can do with it here.
2
countries in Oceania with a section on this site
0
have a matcher: enter your own grades or scores and see where you stand
2
are directories or finders, where no entry data can be reused
Side by side
In alphabetical order, not ranked. Each country counts its institutions in its own way β one lists universities, another every campus or college β so the numbers describe each section, not the size of the country's system.
| Country | What you can do here | Listed | Usual first degree |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Directory | 52universities & university colleges | 3 years (4 with honours) |
| New Zealand | Directory | 26universities, polytechnics & wΔnanga | 3 years |
Every country, A to Z
Australia
52 universities & university colleges
- How you get in
- ATAR rank
- Taught in
- English
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 52 of 52CRICOS-registered, meaning legally able to enrol international students β in Australia's case, all of them
- What we can't tell you
- ATAR cut-offs, fees and graduate earnings exist in Course Seeker and ComparED but are copyrighted with no open licence, so we link to them rather than reproduce them.
New Zealand
26 universities, polytechnics & wΔnanga
- How you get in
- NCEA rank score, set per university
- Taught in
- English
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 14%of all tertiary students are international (48,195 people) β 8 universities in total
- What we can't tell you
- No open tuition or entry-score data; NCEA rank scores are set course by course.
What isn't here, and why
Both countries publish far more than can be shown. Australia's entry ranks (ATAR), fees and graduate earnings belong to services that reserve their rights, so the Australian section is a directory; New Zealand publishes no national entry scores at all. The Pacific island states are not covered.
Figures are never converted into one currency or ranked across countries: each government measures cost and graduate earnings differently, and every figure above keeps its own definition.
Other regions
Each country's figures come from the source credited on its own pages, under that source's licence. This page adds nothing to them; counts and labels are CollegeMatcher's.