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Clubs, conversations and greener campuses: The New Zealand way of studying
Shivansh's move to New Zealand for a master's exposed him to a community-led, research-focused campus culture. His journey from student clubs and a manufacturing job to applied artificial intelligence reflects an education shaped as much by adaptation as by degrees.
A student from a city in Gujarat went to study in New Zealand. What he experienced there shaped the person he has become today. Now an engineer working in the sustainability field, Shivansh, in an exclusive interview with India Today, spoke about what he learned as a student and what New Zealand has to offer to the many Indian students who may not yet have considered it as a preferred study-abroad destination.
For Shivansh, 26, a young student from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, studying in New Zealand, the journey began with a simple discovery: a university could feel less like an institution that merely provides a degree and more like a community. He arrived in 2020 for a one-year, research-based master’s, expecting the familiar rhythm of lectures and textbooks. What he found was markedly different - practical learning, research-led assignments and professors who, in his experience, were as much mentors as teachers.
He is now completing his master’s programme in Auckland.
