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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.
Try “graduate admission”, “bursary” or “open day”.
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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Three routes through Northcrest — one for school leavers, one for researchers, and one for people already at work who want to go further.
Taught by the same faculty who teach our degrees. No application, no entry requirements — just enrol.
Engineering
Science
Business
Design
Media
Data Science
Sport, art, societies and the ordinary business of living somewhere for four years.
Everything that happens between lectures — where you live, what you join, and who you end up building things with.
Nine halls, a students' union that runs its own venue, and a JCR in every college that actually holds a budget.
Two hundred and forty societies, from the Ridgeline Archive to a robotics team that competes internationally.
Thirty-one clubs, an indoor centre open until eleven, and intramural leagues that need no trial to join.
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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.
A teaching hospital, a research base and a student health service that answers the phone.

Every enrolled student has a named clinician and same-week appointments at the Ridgeline health centre.
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Our laboratories sit inside the teaching hospital, so findings reach clinical practice in months rather than years.
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The health informatics group builds the tools that let clinicians see a whole patient history in one place.
Read MorePublic lectures, open days and performances. Most are free and open to visitors.
Conversations with faculty, students and alumni. New episode every other Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts.
We asked three students the same question and printed the answers unedited.
I built a delivery robot in first year that actually crossed campus. Nobody told me to wait until I knew more.
My supervisor introduced me to the person whose paper I had been citing for a year. That call became my dissertation.
The studios are open at two in the morning and the archive is open to undergraduates. Both of those facts changed what I made.
Research findings, policy changes and what happened on campus this month.
Academic Policy
Timed written papers fall from 70 to 45 per cent of assessment across the six colleges from the autumn session.
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Library
Manuscripts, field notebooks and photographs from the 1892 founding survey are now searchable and free to view.
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Research
A shared computing grant gives four research groups access to regional simulation at one-kilometre resolution.
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