Overview

Lincoln has a strong commitment to international education that has resulted in the development of internationally relevant qualifications and research activities. Since its establishment in 1878, Lincoln University has continued to develop a range of high quality, internationally recognized study options at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Lincoln enjoys a very multicultural campus; 2,000 of the 4,300 students enrolled at Lincoln are international students from over 65 different countries. A number of Lincoln University degrees have industry accreditation that is recognized worldwide including:

• Bachelor of Commerce (Valuation and Property Management) - NZ Property Institute and Valuers Registration Board
• Bachelor of Landscape Architecture – NZ Institute of Landscape Architecture
• Bachelor of Commerce (Food Industry) – NZ Institute of Food Science and Technology
• Bachelor of Commerce (Transport and Logisitics) - Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in New Zealand (CMILT)

Academic Highlights

Lincoln University offers an extensive range of programs from Tourism Management, Commerce and Management, Software and Information Technology, Social Science, Recreation Management, Agriculture and Agricultural Science, Landscape Architecture, Viticulture and Oenology, and applied Commerce degrees in Agriculture, Food industry, Hotel and Institutional Management, Transport and Logistics, Valuation and Property Management and Environmental Management. To follow are a number of Lincoln University’s highlights and achievements in some of the areas of research and teaching:

Bioprotection and Ecology
• In 2002, Lincoln University was selected to host a Centre of Research excellence – National Centre for Advanced Bio-Protection Technologies.
• Lincoln University’s campus hosts an exciting research facility called a "biotron" - an interior, climate-controlled unit which duplicates, on a small scale, an exterior growing environment. It is one of only three of its kind in the world and the only one in the Southern Hemisphere.

Environmental Management
• Lincoln University is acclaimed in New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region as the New Zealand tertiary education institution most able to contribute to the creation of sustainable benefit from the utilization of natural resources.
• The Bachelor of Environmental degree is distinctive in New Zealand as it is the only undergraduate qualification designed to provide multidisciplinary training in policy, planning and management.

Viticulture and Oenology
• Viticulture and Oenology study at Lincoln was the first in the English-speaking world with an emphasis on cool climate wine production and is a leader in the field.

Agriculture
• Agriculture is a recognized area of excellence in teaching and research at Lincoln University, and students have been coming to Lincoln to study agriculture for over 125 years.

Facts

Location: Christchurch, South Island
Overseas Students: 1800
Staff: 500
Total Enrolment: 4400

Dates

All dates are provided by each university and are subject to change.AustraLearn will attempt to provide you with the most up-to-date information as we receive it. Be sure to confirm dates before finalizing any travel plans.

February 2009 Full Degree - Spring

Application Deadline: November 1, 2008

Anticipated Departure
Start Date	February 16, 2009
End Date	June 19, 2009
Mid Semester Break #1	March 22, 2009 - March 27, 2009
Mid Semester Break #2	-

July 2009 Full Degree - Fall

Application Deadline: April 1, 2009

Anticipated Departure
Start Date	June 29, 2009
End Date	November 7, 2009
Mid Semester Break #1	August 17, 2009 - August 28, 2009
Mid Semester Break #2	-

AustraLearn Coordinator

Name:	Jodi Reesman and Michelle Finerty
Title:	Degree Program Enrollment Coordinators
Department:	Degree Programs in Australia and New Zealand

BIO:
Jodi and Michelle work in tandem in degree student services, managing student admissions and pre-departure processes to all Australian and New Zealand universities.

AustraLearn’s degree student services provides assistance and advice on accepting offers, banking and financing an overseas education, the visa application process, as well as , travel and housing arrangements.

Jodi earned her B.S. in mass communication at the University of Evansville in Indiana. She studied a semester abroad at the University of South Australia and has also been an exchange student to Germany. She has traveled through western Europe, volunteered in Guatemala, and has extensively backpacked Australia and New Zealand.

Michelle holds a B.S. in International Business from the University of Colorado at Denver. She worked in London for 6 months and has traveled extensively throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.

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