A connected community
The University has three major campuses: City, Grafton and Newmarket Campuses which are within walking distance of each other and well-connected by the public transport network.
City Campus
The City Campus is our largest campus and houses most of the faculties, central administration, the majority of undergraduate teaching facilities, and student facing services. Our student accommodation offers more beds than Auckland’s inner-city hotels combined.
Grafton Campus
The Grafton Campus is situated opposite Auckland’s largest hospital and Starship, a purpose-built children’s hospital, and houses the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and the Liggins Institute. It offers a specialist medical and health sciences library, patient simulation centres, purpose-built laboratories, teaching clinics, and state-of-the-art custom-built research facilities.
Newmarket Campus
The Newmarket Campus houses research-centred activities, including heavy engineering research, science, and medical and health science research components. The campus is also home to spin-out and start-up businesses who appreciate the purpose-built research facilities, co-location and multi-use amenities.
External campuses
Te Papa Ako o Tai Tokerau campus in Whangārei supports our Northland based students (two hours by car from the City Campus).
Te Papa Ako o Tai Tonga, is our physical presence in South Auckland reflecting our commitment to preparing and supporting students in this area. A 30-minute drive from the City Campus, many of our foundation programmes can be completed here.
The Leigh Marine Research centre and Institute of Marine Science is located at the Leigh Marine Reserve just north of Auckland.
Capital works programme
The University’s capital works programme is one of the country’s largest construction programmes. It covers investment in refurbishment, adaptive reuse, and several significant new buildings.
Hiwa
Hiwa, the University’s new Recreation Centre opened in February 2025 and is a 26,000sqm, eight-storey facility in the heart of the City Campus. Hiwa recorded over 700,000 visits within the first six months of operation, highlighting the importance the University places on the wellbeing of its students and staff. Hiwa delivers a world-class range of recreation and wellness spaces including a rooftop multi-sport turf and social area with panoramic views of the city, the southern hemisphere’s first glass sports floor with integrated LED markings, and an aquatic hall with an eight-lane, 33-metre pool.
B201
Opened in 2024 is the sustainability and architecturally award-winning 6 Green Star building, home to the Faculty of Arts and Education. Designed with the teaching and learning needs in mind, it boasts dance and drama studios, a brand new, flexible lecture theatre, state of the art teaching spaces, student study space, and archaeology wet labs. The design was developed collaboratively and is an exemplar of environmental sustainability.