United States of America (04/09/2000)

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.

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

Effective 04/09/2000