How to get into University of Auckland Medicine

University of Auckland — Medicine (MBChB) expects either Year 12 ATAR or a bachelor GPA — First Year (domestic), 2027 entry: enrol full-time at Auckland in the gateway first year of the BHSc or BSc (Biomedical Science) and complete all EIGHT prescribed first-year courses in the year of application, first attempt only (the eighth is WTRMHS 100 or WTRSCI 100, which is not scored).

You need a GPA of at least 6.0/9.0 (B+) across the seven scored first-year courses, with no fails, to be eligible for an MMI. Note the two GPAs are different: eligibility is measured across the seven courses, but the FINAL selection ranking uses only the four core courses — BIOSCI 107, CHEM 110, POPLHLTH 111 and MEDSCI 142.

More than two aegrotat or compassionate passes in First Year makes you ineligible in this category, and you may apply under First Year only once.

Graduate (domestic): a degree, postgraduate degree or postgraduate diploma from a NZ university with GPA ≥6.0/9.0, completed no more than five years before the application date; ranking GPA is calculated across all courses in the most recent completed qualifying programme. UCAT ANZ is required for 2027 entry (all applicants except International Graduate and International Pathway).

Final 2027 ranking: GPA 60% + MMI 25% + UCAT ANZ 15%, applied as z-scores within each admission category. From 2027 the gateway degrees change (new BBiomedSc, refreshed BHSc, six BSc health majors) and a standardised Guaranteed Entry Score of 200 replaces the previous per-degree rank scores for school leavers.

From 2028 entry Casper replaces UCAT ANZ and GPA 6.0 becomes a threshold only, with final selection MMI 50% + Casper 50%. Applications close 1 July. for Medicine (MBChB) and uses Asynchronous online MMI via Kira Talent (8 stations) for interviews in the 2027 Entry cycle.

Entry is dual-pathway (undergraduate and graduate) and selection uses UCAT-ANZ and CASPer; you apply to the university directly against its own preference deadlines, and domestic and international places are both capped, so treat the standard above as a threshold to clear rather than a target to aim at.

This guide is written for 2027 Entry applicants and updated annually before each NZCAA / university admissions cycle. Sources include University of Auckland's official course page, the UCAT-ANZ Consortium, and direct conversations with current students. Read time: ~12 minutes.

Checked field-by-field against University of Auckland's official course page on 12 September 2026.

First Year (domestic), 2027 entry: enrol full-time at Auckland in the gateway first year of the BHSc or BSc (Biomedical Science) and complete all EIGHT prescribed first-year courses in the year of application, first attempt only (the eighth is WTRMHS 100 or WTRSCI 100, which is not scored).

You need a GPA of at least 6.0/9.0 (B+) across the seven scored first-year courses, with no fails, to be eligible for an MMI. Note the two GPAs are different: eligibility is measured across the seven courses, but the FINAL selection ranking uses only the four core courses — BIOSCI 107, CHEM 110, POPLHLTH 111 and MEDSCI 142.

More than two aegrotat or compassionate passes in First Year makes you ineligible in this category, and you may apply under First Year only once.

Graduate (domestic): a degree, postgraduate degree or postgraduate diploma from a NZ university with GPA ≥6.0/9.0, completed no more than five years before the application date; ranking GPA is calculated across all courses in the most recent completed qualifying programme. UCAT ANZ is required for 2027 entry (all applicants except International Graduate and International Pathway).

Final 2027 ranking: GPA 60% + MMI 25% + UCAT ANZ 15%, applied as z-scores within each admission category. From 2027 the gateway degrees change (new BBiomedSc, refreshed BHSc, six BSc health majors) and a standardised Guaranteed Entry Score of 200 replaces the previous per-degree rank scores for school leavers.

From 2028 entry Casper replaces UCAT ANZ and GPA 6.0 becomes a threshold only, with final selection MMI 50% + Casper 50%. Applications close 1 July.

Year 12 ATAR (school leavers) or bachelor degree GPA (graduates) is the academic gateway, plus the admission test and interview.

UCAT-ANZ is a 2-hour computer-based aptitude test (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning, and a separately-banded Situational Judgement Test). Sat between July and early August. The UCAT-ANZ Consortium operates separately from the UK UCAT — scores are NOT interchangeable.

New Zealand has no UCAS, no central application service and no personal statement. You apply directly to Otago or Auckland, and for most domestic applicants there is no written document at all: Otago's Health Sciences First Year (HSFY) and Graduate categories rank on academic score with UCAT-ANZ used as a threshold gate, and Auckland ranks on first-year GPA, UCAT-ANZ and an asynchronous Kira Talent MMI. Written material appears in only three pathways - the Auckland MAPAS MH04 form, the Otago Alternative Category (for experienced allied-health professionals) and Auckland Graduate Entry - and in the last two it is assessed by interview, not as a scored essay. Treat each of those as a specific, structured task rather than a narrative statement.

There is no national word or character limit, because there is no national document. The MAPAS MH04 form has its own question-specific fields; the Otago Alternative Category interview does not use a pre-submitted scored document; and Auckland Graduate Entry is assessed verbally at the MMI. Check your school's current admissions page for the exact form and deadline for your pathway - requirements are reviewed each cycle.

Notice: a specific scene rather than a cliché, a precise detail (the nine-minute conversation), and a closing sentence that bridges to the next paragraph. We have a step-by-step NZ application strategy guide if you want a tutor to help shape yours.

University of Auckland — Medicine (MBChB) uses Asynchronous online MMI via Kira Talent (8 stations). For 2027 entry, interviews typically take place in One fixed online sitting in early September (2027 entry: 11:00am, Tuesday 8 September 2026). International Graduate interviews are arranged separately throughout the year.. Final decisions are released Late December 2026.

At University of Auckland — Medicine (MBChB), expect the following from the MMI. An asynchronous, video-recorded Multiple Mini Interview on the Kira Talent platform - not a live conversation and not in person. The University of Auckland runs 8 stations (7 assessed plus 1 administrative identity and vetting station): roughly 30 seconds to read each prompt, about 3 minutes to record your spoken answer, and around 30 minutes end to end. There are no second takes once a station's recording clock starts, which is why rehearsing the format matters as much as the content.

The Auckland MBChB MMI is conducted entirely online via the Kira Talent platform (asynchronous video-recorded model).

There are 8 stations of 3.5 minutes each: 7 are assessed (30 seconds to read the stem and question, then 3 minutes to record a response) and each is marked out of 30; the 8th is an unscored administrative station for ID verification and Children's Act 2014 compliance.

Each assessed station covers one domain (seven domains in total, published by FMHS as the "MMI Domain Descriptions", assessed against eight attributes). Raw MMI marks are then fitted to a many-facet Rasch measurement model so that scenario difficulty and reviewer harshness are adjusted for.

All general MMIs run online at a single fixed time — for 2027 entry, 11:00am on Tuesday 8 September 2026. MAPAS-eligible applicants (verified Maori or Pacific ancestry) attend the general MMI plus a separate 5-station MAPAS Specialty Interview, run on Zoom rather than Kira Talent, covering academic preparation, cultural identity, whanau, MAPAS expectations and social consciousness.

International Graduate applicants do not sit the general MMI: they are interviewed separately on an asynchronous platform, reviewed and scored by two senior professionals, scheduled as needed through the year.

Our MMI prep programme covers ethics frameworks (SPIES, the four pillars), structured behavioural answers (STAR), and live mock interviews with admissions specialists.

The cycle runs roughly January 2025 (start of prep) through university preference deadlines in October 2026, MMIs in November-December 2026, to first-round offers in December 2026 and course start in late February 2027. Here are the milestones you cannot miss.

Auckland admits to Year 2 of the MBChB from a first-year gateway degree taken at Auckland, rather than from Otago's HSFY. The MMI is fully asynchronous and remote (Kira Talent), not in-person or live video, and runs at one fixed nationwide time. International applicants are admitted in three separate streams — International First Year/Undergraduate, International Pathway (students already holding a conditional Year 2 offer who sit First Year Health Sciences), and International Graduate — so international entry is NOT graduate-only. Two major changes land for 2028 entry: UCAT ANZ is dropped in favour of Casper, and GPA stops being a ranked criterion — a GPA of 6.0 becomes a threshold and final selection is MMI 50% + Casper 50%. From 2027 the gateway degrees themselves change: a new Bachelor of Biomedical Science (BBiomedSc) replaces the BSc specialising in Biomedical Science, the BHSc is refreshed, and six health majors in the BSc also become Year 1 routes. MAPAS applicants sit an additional 5-station specialty interview. RRAS gives rural and regional applicants a separately ranked pool, with 73 of the 317 domestic places allocated to it.

317 domestic places and up to 30 international places per year — 347 total (2026 and 2027 FMHS Programme Limitations). Domestic fee 2026: NZ$19,531.20; international fee 2026: NZ$86,561.