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Auckland University of Technology was established on the 1st of January 2000, when the Auckland Institute of Technology was incorporated into the newly created university by Order in Council under the Education Act 1989. The institution's roots extend back to 1895, when the Auckland Technical School first opened as an evening school.
Universities New Zealand reported a student headcount of 25,270 at AUT in 2024, with 18,565 equivalent full-time students. The university has more than 75,000 alumni.
AUT operates three campuses in Auckland: City Campus in the central business district, North Campus on Akoranga Drive in Northcote, and South Campus in the Manukau area, which opened in 2010 as the first university campus in that region. AUT Millennium, a high-performance sport facility at Mairangi Bay, and the Refugee Education Centre in Mangere are also associated with the university.
Richard Seddon was New Zealand's longest-serving premier. The Auckland Technical School was renamed the Seddon Memorial Technical College in 1913 in his honour, a name the institution carried for decades before later evolving into Auckland Institute of Technology and eventually Auckland University of Technology.
The AUT Centre for Refugee Education is located at the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre and provides a six-week on-arrival programme for the approximately 1,000 refugees who arrive in New Zealand each year under the government quota scheme. The programme covers English language skills from early childhood to adult level, as well as orientation to life in New Zealand, with new teaching spaces opened in 2016.
The Pacific Media Centre was founded at AUT in 2007 within the School of Communication Studies to develop media and journalism research, with a focus on Maori, Pacific Islands, ethnic, and vernacular media. It publishes Pacific Journalism Review, which won the Creative Stimulus Award for academic journals at the inaugural Academy Awards of the Global Creative Industries in Beijing in October 2010.