Albertian gains place at top American university

Ryan Cory-Wright, who left MAGS at the end of Year 12 in 2013 to begin an Engineering degree at Auckland University, has been accepted to MIT near Boston to study for his PhD.

MIT is ranked among the top universities in the world, and its Engineering school is often ranked first. Ryan has begun the first year of his five-year PhD in Operations Research, a field focusing on making better decisions using maths, programming and algorithms which can be applied to a variety of industries.

In Ryan’s final examinations with MAGS he gained Outstanding Scholarships in Calculus and Statistics and a Scholarship in Physics, and was named an NZQA Outstanding Scholar for 2013, one of the top students in the country. While at Auckland University, he was named in the Dean’s Honours list from 2014-2016, gained a Senior Scholar Award in 2016 and a NZ Operations Research Centre Young Practitioner Prize.