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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
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Zealand and Australia and you are eligible to take board exams to become registered in Canada, the UK and many states in the U.S. Some Scandinavian and European countries may require you to work with a principal chiropractor for the first year.
Graduates are advised to research the requirements necessary to apply for registration with Chiropractic Registration Boards in the countries and states they consider other than New Zealand. In some cases additional courses or modules might be required for registration, and graduates will have to source and plan how to acquire those additional credits needed.
Graduation
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”.
