High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Waikato Institute of Technology, marketed as Wintec, is a technological learning institute based in Hamilton, New Zealand, and the fifth largest institute of technology/polytechnic within New Zealand, with around 16,000 full-time and part-time students, 1,200 full-time and part-time staff - and more than 150 programmes. It has three main campuses in Hamilton itself: the main city site, Avalon on the northern outskirts, and the Hamilton Gardens horticultural campus. Additionally there are campuses in Auckland, Thames and Te Kuiti.