Applications Open For Autumn 2026

Explore Your Potential & Talents At Northcrest

Six colleges on one ridge-top campus, 31,000 students, and a teaching model that has kept seminars under twenty since 1892.

Research That Leaves The Building

Work On Problems That Do Not Have Answers Yet

Robotics, climate modelling, public health and materials science — $214m of active grants, and undergraduates on the teams from year two.

Graduation 2026

Start Your Beautiful & Bright Future From Here

Ninety-four per cent of Northcrest graduates are in work or further study within six months. The careers service stays with you for life.

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Campus Information

Northcrest University was established in 1892 on a working farm above the Willamette valley. It is now a research university of 31,000 students that has never stopped teaching in small groups.

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What We Teach

Academics

Three routes through Northcrest — one for school leavers, one for researchers, and one for people already at work who want to go further.

Open To Everyone

Free & Short Courses

Taught by the same faculty who teach our degrees. No application, no entry requirements — just enrol.

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Life On The Ridge

Campus Information

Everything that happens between lectures — where you live, what you join, and who you end up building things with.

Student Life

Nine halls, a students' union that runs its own venue, and a JCR in every college that actually holds a budget.

Arts & Clubs

Two hundred and forty societies, from the Ridgeline Archive to a robotics team that competes internationally.

Sports and Fitness

Thirty-one clubs, an indoor centre open until eleven, and intramural leagues that need no trial to join.

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Northcrest Admission

We read every application in full, twice

There is no algorithm and no first-pass cut. Two readers assess each file independently against what you have done with the opportunities you were actually given.

  • No application fee, and fee waivers are not needed because there is nothing to waive.
  • Decisions released on a published date — no rolling anxiety.
  • Every unsuccessful applicant can request written feedback.
Medicine & Wellbeing

Health Care

A teaching hospital, a research base and a student health service that answers the phone.

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What's On

Upcoming Events

Public lectures, open days and performances. Most are free and open to visitors.

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Northcrest Podcasts

Conversations with faculty, students and alumni. New episode every other Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts.

How To Build Websites That Resonate With Real People

Episode 88 · 34 min

Finding Moments Of Joy In A Challenging Year

Episode 87 · 28 min

How To Use Technology To Adapt Your Talent

Episode 86 · 31 min

What A Research Supervisor Wishes You Would Ask

Episode 85 · 26 min
In Their Words

Student Stories

We asked three students the same question and printed the answers unedited.

Why I Chose Northcrest — Freshman Year

I built a delivery robot in first year that actually crossed campus. Nobody told me to wait until I knew more.

Dania Okoro
Dania OkoroBEng Robotics, 2029

Why I Chose Northcrest University And Teachers

My supervisor introduced me to the person whose paper I had been citing for a year. That call became my dissertation.

Peter Lindgren
Peter LindgrenMSc Data Science, 2026

Why I Chose The Northcrest Campus

The studios are open at two in the morning and the archive is open to undergraduates. Both of those facts changed what I made.

Alina Costa
Alina CostaBA Media Production, 2027
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Research findings, policy changes and what happened on campus this month.

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