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Massey University is a great place to study at a postgraduate level in any
of the fundamental areas identified as research clusters in this site. Current IFS postgraduate students come from New Zealand and all over the world. The headquarters of Massey University and IFS is the small central city of Palmerston
North situated in the Manawatu which is a rural farming area in the North Island
and which could be accurately described as a "University Town" and all that that
implies in terms of cultural amenities.  Postgraduate studies are carried forward in
modern laboratories, offices and suites ideally suited to postgraduate education.
Postgraduate education in New Zealand is attractive because it provides the opportunity
to think, to explore, to be creative in a way that is sometimes forgotten in
more hard-driving environments with a tight focus on the metrics. The
relaxed and laid-back attitudes and approaches of Kiwis are good reasons for
spending those years of your postgraduate education at Massey.
The Institute of Fundamental Sciences is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. The semantics, indeed the real distinctions between these two terms within the Institute where there are four strong disciplines which do merge and interact and among which there are synergies without any need to force or compel issues. The expertise is available across the board from mathematics through statistics and physics to chemistry and biology.
And as a postgraduate student in the Institute of Fundamental Sciences, you
are a respected member of the academic community. Armies of postgraduate students
are not the Massey way.
You can expect high
quality supervision from leading international researchers who have the time
and energy to take a very close interest in your work.
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