Dunedin Campus, Dunedin, New Zealand

QS World University Rankings

=194
QS Stars

5+

Degree BA
Study Level Bachelors
Study Mode On Campus
Course Intensity Full Time
Fees(NZD) 94098-
Scholarships Yes
Start date Feb, Jul

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Understanding the past provides a compass that helps you navigate the present and shape the future. Regardless of geographic area or time period, studying History provides an unrivalled basis for making sense of an increasingly complex and unstable world. The very human analytical and communication skills that History teaches are also keys for entry to a wide range of rewarding careers. Many of these – such as research, teaching, journalism, public policy, diplomacy, and the heritage and museum sectors – are also among those least likely to be overtaken by historical change themselves, in the form of automation or artificial intelligence. Above all, History investigates human societies across time and space and few things are more fascinating. Studying History is about questioning the past imaginatively. Historians take nothing for granted: they search behind the façade of the present to uncover multiple ‘truths’ about the past.

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Founded in 1869, Otago is New Zealand’s first University.

In the 150 years since, Otago has prided itself on being a research-led University with an international reputation for excellence. It is ranked 194 in the 2021/22 QS World University Rankings and in the top 100 in 15 subject areas.

It first received a Five Stars Plus QS Stars University rating in 2016 (and again in 2018 and 2021).

Most undergraduate and postgraduate study takes place on the Dunedin campus, but the University also has Schools of Medicine and Health Sciences in Wellington and Christchurch, which are home to many leading medical researchers.

Otago offers more than 200 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across four divisions:

It also offers a Summer School, Study Abroad and Distance Learning programmes.