Massey University - Palmerston North Living
Of the 73,000 or so people who live in Palmerston North a third are aged between fifteen and thirty. Many are students, making Palmerston North -- or "Palmy" -- a young person's city with a lively social scene. Here you'll find a host of cafes and bars, a multiplex cinema, and New Zealand's only professional theatre outside of the metropolitan centres.

Sport and off-campus adventure are part of the city's attraction. The adidas Institute of Rugby is on the Turitea campus, and a new all-weather athletics track opens in 2002. Minutes from campus there are some of the best mountain bike tracks anywhere. Further afield you will find bungy jumping, river kayaking, rafting, trout fishing, horse riding and tramping. In the city centre, it's cafes and pubs. Live theatre, live music and one of the best city libraries in the world make a lively arts and entertainment scene. About 80 student clubs operate on campus.
 
The Palmerston North community supports learning, and enjoys an easy relationship with the large student population. There's lots of well-priced accommodation; it's easy to get places on foot or by pedal power. Palmerston North campus has two locations. Turitea, set amongst huge trees and beautiful gardens, is the University's founding campus. Hokowhitu site is the heart of the University's education studies and features modern buildings in a picturesque setting sandwiched between a lush golf course and a lagoon.

Massey students from Palmerston North say its lower central North Island location allows them a great lifestyle. It's only a two-hour drive to shows in Wellington, to vineyards and beaches in Hawke's Bay or to snow covered ski slopes at Ruapehu in winter time