Bachelor of Arts Further Study

With 30 major subjects to choose from and spanning the humanities, social sciences, languages, and creative arts, Bachelor of Arts (BA) students can follow their passion and gain valuable skills.



Over the three years of your degree, you will gain the critical thinking, creative problem solving, and communication skills that employers want. Unique practical experiences such as internships are on offer too.

Te Rāngai Toi Tangata | College of Arts has a wide range of options for postgraduate and graduate study with excellent research facilities. These include specialised research centres such as the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies, and National Centre for Research on Europe.

Further study

See the complete list of UC research institutes and centres.



Graduate and postgraduate qualifications:



  • Graduate Diploma in Arts
  • Graduate Diploma in Journalism
  • Graduate Diploma in Strategic Communication
  • Bachelor of Arts with Honours
  • Master of Arts
  • Master of Arts (Thesis)
  • Master of Applied Translation and Interpreting
  • Master of European Union Studies
  • Master of International Relations and Diplomacy
  • Master of Linguistics
  • Master of Māori and Indigenous Leadership
  • Master of Policy and Governance
  • Master of Strategic Communication
  • Master of Te Reo Māori
  • Master of Writing
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Arts
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Humanities
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Māori and Indigenous Leadership
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Te Reo Māori
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Art Curatorship
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Arts
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Te Reo Māori
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)