Course details

Summary

Build on your Honours degree with advanced study and research at Master's level and become a leader in your field.

Study your specialist subject in detail and take the opportunity to contribute to the world's knowledge in that area. Enhance your critical thinking, communication and problem-solving abilities and learn to create and assess new ideas.

Working alongside some of New Zealand’s leading academic staff, you'll complete a research thesis of up to 40,000 words and emerge as an expert in your subject with highly developed research skills.

Victoria's MA is offered in more than 40 subjects. Most programmes are by thesis only but some include coursework and require a shorter thesis, and others you can complete doing mainly coursework and a research project.

A Master of Arts will give your career prospects a boost and open doors to new opportunities. Be a leader in a humanities or social science field and help make New Zealand a better place.

Advance your expertise with PhD study

At the end of your Master's you can choose to continue your research and apply to do a PhD, either in New Zealand or overseas. In exceptional circumstances you may be able to upgrade to a PhD during your Master's study.

A PhD is the highest academic qualification offered by the Faculty. You’ll carry out original and sustained research under supervision from world-class academics.

Available subjects

• Education
• Applied Linguistics
• Art History
• Asian Studies
• Chinese
• Classical Studies
• Classics
• Creative Writing
• Criminology
• Cultural Anthropology
• English
• Film
• French
• Geography
• German
• History
• International Relations
• Italian
• Japanese
• Linguistics
• Literary Translation Studies
• Logic
• 毛利 Studies
• Mathematics
• Media Studies
• Museum and Heritage Studies
• Music
• New Zealand Studies
• Pacific Studies
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Public Policy
• Religious Studies
• Social Policy
• Sociology
• Spanish
• Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
• Theatre

Entry criteria

To be accepted into this programme you'll need:

• A Bachelor's degree with Honours with a B range average
• To have met the prerequisites for the subject you wish to study
• Acceptance by the relevant head of school as capable of proceeding with the proposed course of study

Other English Language requirements:

• IELTS: minimum overall score of 6.5 with no sub-score below 6.0
• TOEFL: minimum score of 90 for the internet-based test with a minimum of 20 in writing
• Pearson Test of English: minimum score of 65 (with a ‘Communicative’ score of not less than 58)
• EPP: minimum final scores of 4,4,5,5