Massey University reviews

It is a regular occurrence that people get promoted based on whom they know (the best way is to be a buddy with the vice-chancellor). While some faculty are genuinely good in research, promotion is basically based on the number of publications, and the expectation is to publish in C journals. Funding for conference travel and research is severely limited, even by New Zealand standards. There is a general race to the bottom in the quality of the teaching, funneled by the need to capture an ever-increasing share of an ever-declining pool of foreign students. This is done by lowering standards, so much so that the Chinese university officials visiting other NZ universities to establish exchange programmes have asked "You don't let everyone pass like Massey, do you?".

If you are good at figuring everything out by yourself and don't mind spending a lot of time working through your confusion or being frustrated; if you don't mind being patronised or ignored when you ask for help; if you don't mind working with out-of-date study resources with grammatical and spelling errors all through them, inconsistencies in language, inconsistencies between papers, and you love arrogant staff with no empathy who don't want to hear anything is wrong at all and will penalise you for complaining but ensuring your grades drop, then this is the university for you! You have been warned.