Unitec Institute of Technology-Auckland
Unitec was founded as Carrington Technical Institute in 1976 on the Mt Albert site on Carrington road, which has 55 hectares of grounds. The area on which Unitec's main campus is located was formerly home to the Whau Lunatic Asylum, later known as Carrington Hospital. The hospital building (Building 1) is an imposing brick Italianate-Romanesque structure, located at the northern end of the Unitec Campus. The hospital building was the largest in New Zealand when it was built in the 1860s. The hospital was decommissioned during the early 1990s, and the building is now part of Unitec.
The name changed to Carrington Polytechnic in 1987 and then
to "Unitec Institute of Technology" in 1994. Unitec applied for
University status in 1999, but the Government ruled, somewhat controversially,
in 2005 that Unitec did not meet the academic criteria of a university and
would remain an Institute of Technology.
Overview
- Unitec is New Zealand's largest, top ranking Institute of Technology, with more than 18,000 students from around 80 countries. We are located in the heart of Auckland, one of the world's most livable cities.
- Institute Type: Polytechnics
- Institute Country: New Zealand
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