Quality of education

This is really the key – after all, there’s no point going all that way to study unless you’re sure you’ll get a world-class degree qualification at the end of it.

Luckily, you can rest assured that that’s guaranteed. Both the New Zealand and Australian education systems follow the same model as Britain’s. The universities have a strong academic reputation around the world and their degrees are internationally recognised – and highly regarded – by employers and other universities alike.
In The World University Rankings report published by The Times Higher Education Supplement in October 2006, seven Australian and New Zealand universities appeared in the top 50. Only eight UK universities were ranked at that level – all of which are considered to be among the most prestigious in the country, such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh universities. Twenty-nine UK universities appeared in the complete list of the world’s top 200, compared to 13 Australian and two New Zealand.

To put that into context, Australia has some 40 universities in total and New Zealand just eight – the UK has around 130.