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Albany campus

Palmerston North’s Massey University established a campus at Albany in the early 1990s, the first university to have a major campus outside its traditional area. The Spanish mission-style architecture emulates that of the American West Coast universities of Stanford and Berkeley.

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Margaret McClure, Auckland places – The North Shore, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16095/albany-campus (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Margaret McClure, published 2 March 2009, updated 5 August 2016.