Students

What is the graduate profile? By nurturing a spirit of inquiry, UC challenges you to explore your chosen academic landscape, venture into unfamiliar fields of knowledge and learning. We extend this to encourage you to be bicultural, employable, global citizens in your communities and the wider New Zealand. Learn more about our graduate profile.

There are lots of ways to work on your graduate profile. These will help you when you start writing your CV and sell yourself to employers. Learn more about developing your graduate attributes.

How you can show and actively use your skills in the workplace? Being able to come up with ideas and put them into practice, show motivation, and resolve while applying your discipline prepares you for a wide variety of career settings. Find out how to be employable, innovative, and enterprising.

New Zealand is made up of two distinct cultures. UC aims to prepare you to work in both cultures with confidence and understand how this is relevant to your study and career. Having bicultural confidence and competence develops awareness and the ability to relate to different ideas. Learn more.

Community engagement gives you direct examples of how your work can bring about positive change. It involves connecting with the public to improve some part of their community. It's also a good way to understand how diverse society is. Learn more.

Having a range of global connections can help equip our students with skills to work on an international scale. Developing this ability also helps increase cultural awareness, which is useful for overseas work opportunities. Learn more about being globally aware.