Your offer
If you’ve received an Offer of Place letter, it means you’ve been accepted to study at Victoria University of Wellington.
You now need to plan your study and choose your courses. You can check your offer in Pūaha, our student portal. If you haven't already done so you will need to create an account.
Create an account in Pūaha
To create a new account in Pūaha, you will need to:
- Visit Pūaha.
- Create a new account by choosing 'Sign in or sign up with email or social account'.
- Enter your email address and click 'Send verification code'. A verification code will be sent to your email address.
- Recover the code from your email. Enter this code in Pūaha and click verify.
- Enter your name and create a password, then click create. Your account should then be set up.
If you need more help, watch this video or contact info@vuw.ac.nz.
If your offer has conditions
If you have a conditional Offer of Place, you will need to meet the conditions of your offer and be issued an unconditional Offer of Place before you can apply for your student visa.
Once you have an offer
It is very important that you:
- check your Offer of Place—make sure it’s for the programme of study and major you applied for.
- meet any conditions if you have a conditional Offer of Place—for example, providing an IELTS test result.
If you don’t think you’ll be able to meet the conditions of your offer before you arrive in New Zealand, contact us.
Deferring your offer
If you want to start your studies later and change your start date, you can defer your offer to another year—select ‘defer’ in the online tool and choose the date that you’d like to come
Declining your offer
If you decide not to study at the University, you can decline your Offer of Place on Pūaha by following the instructions in your offer email.
Your next steps
Once you have received your offer, you need to pay your fees and apply for a student visa.