Rankings and awards

OUR GRADUATES ARE SOUGHT AFTER BY EMPLOYERS, WITH 77% OF ALL GRADUATES FROM OUR BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAMMES* IN FULL OR PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF GRADUATING

* Music, design, fine art and creative media production

– Graduate Destinations Survey 2020

Rankings & Awards

QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

Top 150 for art and design for 6 years running.

RESEARCH (PBRF)

Across design and visual arts and craft, the College of Creative Arts comes out on top, with the largest number of top-rated researchers of all tertiary institutions in New Zealand.

RED DOT

Ngā Pae Māhutonga Wellington School of Design has ranked in the top 3 in Asia Pacific in the annual International Red Dot Awards for seven years in a row, the only school in Australasia to place in the top 15.

DINZ BEST AWARDS

In 2021 Massey graduates made up a third of all student finalists across all categories, a pattern that has been consistent over the past 19 years of the award.

AOTEAROA MUSIC AWARDS

AMA recognises the sucess of Aotearoa’s behind-the-scenes music talent. For the seventh year running we will be celebratating the sucess of our students and alumni at the AMA Artisan Awards.

JAMES DYSON

Massey grads have won the National Dyson Award for 18 of the 20 years of this award. In 2021, both the top and runner up awards were won by Massey graduates Maisie Ponoho for her Hae Hae children’s asthma inhaler, and Zené Krige for her TRAX herbicide robot.

WALTERS ART PRIZE

For the first time New Zealand’s most prestigious contemporary art prize was awarded to a collective – Maureen Lander and the Mata Aho Collective. The collective comprises four graduates from Massey’s Toioho ki Āpiti Māori Visual Arts programme, Bridget Reweti, Erena Arapere, Sarah Hudson and Terri Te Tau.

ECC NZ STUDENT CRAFT / DESIGN AWARDS

In 2021 there were six Massey graduate projects selected as finalists, resulting in awards for Surface Design (Laura Graham), Product Design (Thomas Mackisack) and Lighting Design (a group project including Keely Harman, Courtney Mcleod, Josh Collins, Oliver Mortimer, Nick Holland, Winston Brinsley, Oliver Williams, Kareena Annan, Ali Antaqi, Hamish Maunsell, Hanne Lillt, Annie-Maeve Gibson, Dan Clutterbuck, Ameka Weston, Liam Gosford, Courtnet Drake and Koko Andrews).

GOOD DESIGN AWARDS

Industrial Design student Zené Krige was awarded a Next Gen Accolade in the Australian Good Design Awards for her design TRAX, an autonomous herbicide robot, alongside final year student Thomas Mackisack who is a finalist for his Aquastack childrens toy.

VAKA DOCUMENTARY SUCCESS

A partnership with Massey, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Tokelau Government, VAKA tells an extraordinary story of the resilience of the Tokelauan people in the face of climate change. Produced in 2019 by Massey graduates Kelly Moneymaker, Rebecca Curtis-Motley, Jessica George, Ben Dickens and Mason Rudd, VAKA has won a range of accolades, nominations and awards in 2021 including: the Sydney Short Film Festival, Climate Action Film Festival, Toronto International Women Film Festival, World Distribution Awards, New York Indie Shorts Awards, London Mountain Film Festival, Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival, Environmental Film Festival Australia, and BlackStar Film Festival. VAKA were invited to showcase at the Better Cities Film Festival as part of the 2021 UN-Habitat World Cities Day Reel.