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Taking your degree to the world
Our graduates are in high demand and can be found practising in many countries around the globe.
Our soon-to-be graduates are in an enviable position, and it isn’t unusual to have multiple job offers as you get close to graduation. Our accreditation from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority and the Council on Chiropractic Education Australasia means you are licensed to practise in New Zealand and Australia. You can also practise around the globe, and it is important to research the requirements to practise depending on where you want to go. We have a large percentage of graduates who return home to practise (along with a few Kiwi's too). In Canada, all Chiropractors have to sit the Canadian Board exams. For more information visit
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Graduation: Class of 2019
Highlights from the graduation ceremony.
Kurtis’s Story
Meet Kurtis, a College graduate who returned to his hometown of Edmonton, Canada after graduating to spread the College’s vitalistic approach to chiropractic across the world.
Whether or not to return home to Canada after graduation was a tough decision, which he admits to having mixed feelings about. While the initial intention was always to return home, by his third year he had fallen in love with New Zealand and its people and even had local practices reaching out to him with job offers. However, during a Christmas visit back home, he saw the opportunity to use his skills and education to make a difference in his local community.
Taking chiropractic to the world Now back home and working as an established chiropractor at a local Edmonton practice, Kurtis says he feels driven to share as much of his learnings from New Zealand with the rest of the world as possible.
He believes the College’s unique academic programme and approach to chiropractic warrants a worldwide movement and it was this belief that drove him to leave New Zealand. “I felt a calling to spread the word to communities that needed it more.”
Preparing to practise in Canada Practising in Canada wasn’t as simple as hopping on a plane and accepting a local job. To be registered to practise in Canada, students must pass the Canadian Chiropractic Board Exams. They are tough tests, but the College’s academic programme prepares students well for them.
Kurtis says students and teachers alike went out of their way to support Canadian students taking the Board exams. “From out-of-hours meetings, to student study groups, the College went above and beyond to support those of us preparing for the tests.” He believes the culture and sense of calm at the school helps students to feel less flustered going into the exams. “The people at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic go above and beyond to make sure everyone succeeds, which I think is amazing.” His advice to other Canadian students considering the move to New Zealand to study chiropractic is to “go to the New Zealand College of Chiropractic, have fun, work hard and have your life forever changed”.
