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Nelson Mandela University was founded through a merger of three institutions in January 2005, but its history dates back to 1882, with the foundation of the Port Elizabeth Art School. It is a comprehensive university offering professional and vocational training. The university has seven campuses – six in Gqeberha and one in George. The main ...
Multi-city campus university 1981 2004/2005 Now merged with the Nelson Mandela University, the University of the Free State, the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, the University of South Africa and the Vaal University of Technology. Technikon Witwatersrand: Johannesburg: 1925 2005 University of Johannesburg
Nelson Mandela medical school campus, created in 1950, was originally a racially segregated part of the University of Natal reserved for non-white students. [18] [16] It was one of the few tertiary institutions legally allowed to provide education to black people under apartheid. It was granted Nelson Mandela's name on its 50th anniversary in 2000.
Walter Sisulu University 5969 17 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 5994 18 Cape Peninsula University of Technology 6246 19 University of Limpopo 6884 20 Central University of Technology, Free State 7065 21 University of Zululand 7105 22 Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University 7294 23 Vaal University of Technology 7811
The University of Fort Hare (Afrikaans: Universiteit van Fort Hare) is a public university in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was a key institution of higher education for Africans from 1916 to 1959 when it offered a Western-style academic education to students from across sub-Saharan Africa , creating an African elite.
As part of the government's plan for higher education, Vista University's Port Elizabeth campus was merged into UPE in 2004. [7] In 2003, the merger proposal for Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) was announced. [8] UPE effectively shut down after the 2004 academic year, and was merged with Port Elizabeth Technikon on 1 January 2005. [8]
The university lists many notable South Africans among its alumni, including two Nobel prize winners: Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. [3]
Former South African President Nelson Mandela was joint-President (1995–1999), alongside Queen Noor, and, subsequently, Honorary President of UWC (1999–2013). [5] Former UWC presidents are Louis Mountbatten (1968–1977) [ 4 ] and, when he was Prince of Wales, King Charles III (1978–1995).