Your offer

Find out how to accept, decline, or defer your Offer of Place and what to do if you have conditions to meet.

If you’ve received an Offer of Place letter, it means you’ve been accepted to study at Victoria University of Wellington. Congratulations!

You now need to accept your offer to be able to plan your study and choose your courses. You can accept your offer in Pūaha - our student portal. If you haven't already done so you will need to create an account.

Create an account in Pūaha

To create a new account in Pūaha, you will need to:

  1. Visit Pūaha site
  2. Create a new account by choosing "Sign in or sign up with Email or social account".
  3. Enter your email address and click ‘Send Verification code’, then a verification code will be sent to your email address.
  4. Recover the code from your email. Enter this code in Pūaha and click verify.
  5. Enter your name and create a password, then click create, your account should then be set up.
  6. Once you have set up your account, you can log in to Pūaha and accept (or decline, or defer) your offer.

If you need more help, watch this video or contact info@vuw.ac.nz.

Log into Pūaha

If your offer has conditions

If you have a conditional Offer of Place, you can still accept it. You will need to meet the conditions of your offer and be issued an unconditional Offer of Place before you can apply for your student visa.

Once you have an offer

It is very important that you:

  • check your Offer of Place before you accept it—make sure it’s for the programme of study and major you applied for.
  • meet any conditions if you have a conditional Offer of Place—for example, providing an IELTS test result.

If you don’t think you’ll be able to meet the conditions of your offer before you arrive in New Zealand, contact us.

Accepting your offer

When you accept an Offer of Place, you are:

  • telling us that you plan to attend Victoria University of Wellington
  • accepting a place in the programme of study in your offer
  • agreeing to pay your fees before you begin studying at the University.

Deferring your offer

If you want to start your studies later and change your start date, you can defer your offer to another year—select ‘defer’ in the online tool and choose the date that you’d like to come

Declining your offer

If you decide not to study at the University, you can decline your Offer of Place on Pūaha by following the instructions in your offer email.