United States of America (01/04/2001)

Bachelors degrees requiring 4 or more years of full time study from the following institutions are assessed as occupying Category B Level 7 of the Qualifications Table and will therefore be awarded 10 points.

Masters degrees and PhDs from the following institutions are assessed occupying Category A Level 8 of he Qualifications Table and will therefore be awarded 12 points, provided the holder of the qualification also obtained their undergraduate (Bachelors) degree from an institution included on the List of Recognised Qualifications. If the Masters degree is not preceded by an undergraduate degree from an institution included on the List of Recognised Qualifications it is assessed as occupying Category B Level 7 of the Qualifications Table and will therefore be awarded 10 points.

Honours degrees from the following institutions are assessed as occupying Category B Level 7 of the Qualifications Table and will therefore be awarded 10 points unless a NZQA Assessment Report assesses them as occupying Category A Level 7 of the Qualifications Table, in which case 11 points will be awarded.

Graduate and post graduate diplomas require a NZQA assessment for points allocation.

• Arizona State University Main Campus
• Boston University
• Brigham Young University
• California State University - Long Beach (from 1949 onwards)
• Florida International University (from 1965 onwards)
• Florida State University
• Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Indiana University at Bloomington
• Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (from 1969 onwards)
• Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Michigan State University
• New York University
• North Carolina State University
• Pennsylvania State University Main Campus
• Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
• Purdue University Main Campus
• Rutgers the State University of New Jersey New Brunswick Campus
• San Diego University
• San Francisco State University
• San Jose State University
• Stanford University
• Temple University
• Texas A & M University
• The Ohio State University Main Campus
• The University of Akron Main Campus
• University of Arizona
• University of California-Berkeley
• University of California-Los Angeles
• University of Central Florida (from 1963 onwards)
• University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• University of Florida
• University of Georgia
• University of Houston
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Iowa
• University of Maryland College Park
• University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• University of North Texas
• University of Phoenix (from 1976 onwards)
• University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus
• University of South Carolina - Columbia
• University of Southern California
• University of South Florida (from 1956 onwards)
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Utah
• University of Washington-Seattle
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Wayne State University
• Western Michigan University
• Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Effective 01/04/2001