Canterbury College
1873 AD founded
The university originated in 1873 in the centre of Christchurch as Canterbury College, the first constituent college of the University of New Zealand.
It became the second institution in New Zealand providing tertiary-level education (following the University of Otago, established in 1869), and the fourth in Australasia.
Its foundation professors arrived in 1874, namely, Charles Cook (Mathematics, University of Melbourne, St John's College, Cambridge), Alexander Bickerton (Chemistry and Physics, School of Mining, London), and John Macmillan Brown (University of Glasgow, Balliol College, Oxford).
In 1933, the name changed from Canterbury College to Canterbury University College.
In 1957 the name changed again to the present University of Canterbury.
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