The University of Canterbury New Zealand

The University of Canterbury (Māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal shortening Cantuar. alternately Cant. for Cantuariensis, the Latin name for Canterbury) in Christchurch is New Zealand's second most seasoned college. Established in 1873 by educators Charles Cook (Mathematics, St John's College, Cambridge), Alexander Bickerton (Chemistry and Physics, School of Mining, London), and John Macmillan Brown (Balliol College, Oxford), it works its primary grounds in the suburb of Ilam. The college offers degrees in Arts, Commerce, Education (physical instruction), Engineering, Fine Arts, Forestry, Health Sciences, Law, Music, Social Work, Speech and Language Pathology, Science, Sports Coaching and Teaching.

The University began in 1873 in the core of Christchurch as Canterbury College, the first constituent school of the University of New Zealand. It turned into the second establishment in New Zealand giving tertiary-level training (after the University of Otago, built in 1869), and the fourth in Australasia.

The Canterbury Museum and Library and Christ's College, disappointed with the condition of advanced education in Canterbury, had both worked towards setting up Canterbury College.[2] In 1933, the name changed from Canterbury College to Canterbury University College. In 1957 the name changed again to the present University of Canterbury.

Until 1961, the University structured piece of the University of New Zealand (UNZ), and issued degrees in its name. That year saw the disintegration of the government arrangement of tertiary training in New Zealand, and the University of Canterbury turned into an autonomous University granting its own degrees. Upon the UNZ's end, Canterbury Agricultural College turned into a constituent school of the University of Canterbury, as Lincoln College.[3] Lincoln College got to be autonomous in 1990 as a full college in its own privilege.

Over the period from 1961 to 1974, the college grounds moved from the middle of the city to its much bigger current site in the suburb of Ilam. The neo-gothic structures of the old grounds turned into the site of the Christchurch Arts Center, a center point for expressions, specialties and excitement in Christchurch.

In 2004, the University experienced rebuilding into four Colleges and a School of Law, controlling various schools and offices (however various divisions have association in cross-instructing in various scholastic employees). For a long time the college worked nearly with the Christchurch College of Education, prompting a full merger in 2007, securing a fifth Colle