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List of universities in South Africa
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In 2004 South Africa started reforming its higher education system, merging and incorporating small universities into larger institutions, and renaming all higher education institutions "university" (previously there had been several types of higher education institution). The country's universities and technikons which were incorporated with others and thus no longer exist are listed at the end of the article.
There are also a large number of other educational institutions in South Africa - some are local campuses of foreign universities, some conduct classes for students who write their exams at the distance-education University of South Africa and some offer unaccredited or non-accredited diplomas.
Current Official South African Universities
Public universities in South Africa are divided into three types: traditional universities, which offer theoretically-oriented university degrees; universities of technology, which offer practically-oriented diplomas and degrees in technical fields; and comprehensive universities, which offer a combination of both types of qualification. [1] [2]
Traditional universities
- University of Cape Town, (Cape Town)
- University of Fort Hare, (Alice), (East London)
- University of the Free State, (Bloemfontein)
- University of KwaZulu-Natal, (Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Pinetown, Westville)
- University of Limpopo, (Polokwane, Ga-Rankuwa)
- North-West University, (Mafikeng, Mankwe, Potchefstroom, Vanderbijlpark)
- University of Pretoria, (Pretoria)
- Rhodes University, (Grahamstown)
- University of Stellenbosch, (Stellenbosch)
- University of the Western Cape, (Cape Town)
- University of the Witwatersrand, (Johannesburg)
Comprehensive universities
Universities of technology
Other Degree Granting Institutions
South African Institutions
Foreign degrees offered locally
Other Educational Institutions
Former Universities and Technikons
- Bond South Africa (Sandton)
- Border Technikon, now part of Walter Sisulu University for Technology and Science
- University of the Cape of Good Hope, renamed University of South Africa in 1916
- University of Durban-Westville (Durban), now part of University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Eastern Cape Technikon, now part of Walter Sisulu University for Technology and Science
- Medical University of South Africa (Ga-Rankuwa), now part of University of Limpopo
- University of the North (near Polokwane), now part of University of Limpopo
- University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg, Durban), now part of University of KwaZulu-Natal
- University of North-West (Mafikeng) (formerly the University of Bophuthatswana), now part of North-West University.
- University of Port Elizabeth, (Port Elizabeth), now part of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
- Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (Potchefstroom), now part of North-West University.
- Rand Afrikaans University (Johannesburg), now part of University of Johannesburg
- Technikon SA, now merged with Unisa.
- Transvaal University College predecessor of the University of Pretoria and the University of the Witwatersrand
- University of Transkei, now part of Walter Sisulu University for Technology and Science
- Vista University (multi-city campus university), now merged with other universities.
- Technikon Witwatersrand, now part of the University of Johannesburg
See also
References
- Universities and Technikons in South Africa
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