
Auckland University of Technology (AUT) has become one of the eight public universities in New Zealand. After being officially upgraded in 2000, the first chairman of the AUT was the former Governor of New Zealand (1985-1990), the Archbishop of New Zealand and the Bishop of Auckland (1980-1985), and Sir Paul Alfred Reeves (Sir Paul Alfred Reeves)) ). In 2017, the international education organization Quacquarelli Symonds awarded Auckland University of Technology a 5-star.