Independent art school
Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design
Department: Whitecliffe Fine Arts
Auckland, New Zealand
Overview
A private art and design school in central Auckland offering fine arts degrees from bachelor to master level.
Programs researched: 3. None yet has a verified program-level accreditation record in our data.
Subjects with a verified program link: Fine Arts.
Programs
Each program is listed with its official award, subject link, delivery and published tuition. Accreditation, fees, language and entry requirements belong to the program, not to the whole institution.
BFA programs
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Fine ArtsBachelor’sBFAFine Arts
On campus3 Years, full-timeEnglishSymonds Street campus
NZ$11,378per year
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)Bachelor’sBFAFine Arts
On campus1 Year, full-timeEnglishSymonds Street campus
NZ$10,576per year
MFA programs
Master of Fine Arts
Master of Fine ArtsMaster’sMFAFine Arts
HybridFull-time, two yearsEnglishSymonds Street campus
NZ$11,802per year
Campuses and facilities
Places where teaching actually happens. Studio, workshop, fabrication, printmaking, ceramics, darkroom, digital and gallery facilities are stated per campus, only as published.
Symonds Street campus
Auckland, New Zealand
Facilities not described on the pages we checked.
Accreditation, validation and recognition
Recorded per program and campus, with the authority’s role. Institutional accreditation, program accreditation, professional validation, degree-awarding authority and national qualification registers are different things, and a qualification accepted in one jurisdiction is not automatically accepted elsewhere.
Institution-wide statement
Verified in official recordNew Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA)Institutional accreditation or recognitionNZ
Reference: 8509
Scope: Listed in NZQA's Find Education Organisations register as Whitecliffe Education Limited (trading as Whitecliffe College). Degree-level accreditation of the individual programs was not checked.
The institution is accredited or recognised as a whole. This says nothing about an individual program.
Gallery
Photo: Spil030 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources and verification
How this profile was verified
Facts come from the institution’s own pages and from official registers, each with a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Last checked 23 October 2026. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 23 October 2026)