Study in Oceania: 3 countries compared
Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea β what each government publishes about its universities, and what you can do with it here.
3
countries in Oceania with a section on this site
0
have a matcher: enter your own grades or scores and see where you stand
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are directories or finders, where no entry data can be reused
Side by side
In alphabetical order, not ranked. Each country counts its institutions in its own way β one lists universities, another every campus or college β so the numbers describe each section, not the size of the country's system.
| Country | What you can do here | Listed | Usual first degree |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Directory | 52universities & university colleges | 3 years (4 with honours) |
| New Zealand | Directory | 26universities, polytechnics & wΔnanga | 3 years |
| Papua New Guinea | Directory + accredited programmes | 46registered universities and colleges | Usually 4 years (bachelor's) |
Every country, A to Z
Australia
52 universities & university colleges
- How you get in
- ATAR rank
- Taught in
- English
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 52 of 52CRICOS-registered, meaning legally able to enrol international students β in Australia's case, all of them
- What we can't tell you
- ATAR cut-offs, fees and graduate earnings exist in Course Seeker and ComparED but are copyrighted with no open licence, so we link to them rather than reproduce them.
New Zealand
26 universities, polytechnics & wΔnanga
- How you get in
- NCEA rank score, set per university
- Taught in
- English
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- 14%of all tertiary students are international (48,195 people) β 8 universities in total
- What we can't tell you
- No open tuition or entry-score data; NCEA rank scores are set course by course.
Papua New Guinea
46 registered universities and colleges
- How you get in
- School leavers apply through DHERST's National Online Application System (NOAS); universities admit non-nationals directly
- Taught in
- English
- What it costs
- Not published as open data
- What graduates earn
- Not published as open data
- For students from abroad
- Not published as open data
- What we can't tell you
- The register's programme list dates from December 2021 and most review dates on it have passed, and no enrolment, fee or admission figures are published per institution.
Also on this site
- Pacific Islands β Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and the rest: every institution on each country's official register; and, for Tuvalu and Nauru, which have none, what Wikidata records, marked as not official.
What isn't here, and why
Australia and New Zealand publish far more than can be shown. Australia's entry ranks (ATAR), fees and graduate earnings belong to services that reserve their rights, so the Australian section is a directory; New Zealand publishes no national entry scores at all. Papua New Guinea is a directory of its higher-education register, whose programme list dates from 2021. The smaller Pacific Island states share one page, Pacific Islands, which lists what each one's regulator registers β names, types and websites, with no figures except Tonga's accredited-programme counts; the University of the South Pacific's own site turns automated requests away, and for Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Nauru we found no published register β Tuvalu and Nauru are checked against Wikidata there instead, in a block marked as not an official list.
Figures are never converted into one currency or ranked across countries: each government measures cost and graduate earnings differently, and every figure above keeps its own definition.
Other regions
Each country's figures come from the source credited on its own pages, under that source's licence. This page adds nothing to them; counts and labels are CollegeMatcher's.