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Learn more about programmes, qualifications, or outstanding teaching facilities that you won't find anywhere else in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Explore our subjects

  • Agricultural Innovation
    New Zealand's only programme that takes you from farm to plate
  • Bioethics
    A minor in Bioethics, the study of the ethical, social and legal issues in healthcare, is only offered at Otago
  • Botany
    The only university in New Zealand specialising in the science of plants
  • Dentistry
    New Zealand's National Centre of Dentistry is one of the world's newest dental teaching hospitals
  • Entrepreneurship
    A uniquely self-directed degree that equips you to start a business
  • Neuroscience
    The only New Zealand university to offer an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience
  • Pharmaceutical Science
    The Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science incorporates rongoā Māori to give you training that's only available at Otago.
  • Radiation Therapy
    University of Otago's Wellington campus is the national provider of Radiation Therapy undergraduate and postgraduate education.
  • Science of Religion
    The only programme in New Zealand that equips students with an understanding of scientific methods that can be used in the study of Religion
  • Sport and Exercise Nutrition
    New Zealand's only dedicated sports nutrition programme
  • Sustainable Energy
    The only energy-focussed undergraduate degree in Australasia
  • Surveying
    Otago is the only university in the country to offer a professional degree in Surveying

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