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The University of Johannesburg, colloquially known as UJ, is a public university located in Johannesburg, South Africa.The University of Johannesburg was established on the 1st of January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University. [12]
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (/ v ə t ˈ v ɑː t ə s r ɑː n t /), commonly known as Wits University or Wits, is a multi-campus public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg, South Africa. The university has its roots in the mining industry, as do Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand in ...
The University of Johannesburg has its own shuttle service that transports students between the Doornfontein Campus, Soweto Campus, Kingsway Campus, and Bunting Road Campus. [17] Additionally, all of these campuses are served by Rea Vaya , a bus rapid transit system in Johannesburg.
University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Campus. Kingsway Campus Auckland Park, also known as APK, is the largest and most populated of the four campuses of the University of Johannesburg. [1] [2] It is also the seat of the administration and governance body of the university. The campus was formerly the only educational campus of the Rand ...
University of Johannesburg: UJ 1 January 2005 1 (1967 as RAU, Technikon Witwatersrand and the East Rand campus of Vista University) >50,000 [28] Johannesburg, Soweto: Eng Nelson Mandela University: Madibaz / NMU 1 January 2005 2 (1964 as UPE) 19,768 2,884 22,652 Port Elizabeth, George: Eng University of South Africa: Unisa 1873 300,000
The Independent Institute of Education was founded in 2004 as the academic leadership and governance body within the ADvTECH Group. It is responsible for overseeing all of the Group's academic campuses, and developing, assessing, certifying, and overseeing the delivery of curricula at its campuses.
An act of Parliament was promulgated on 4 August 1965 to establish such a university in Johannesburg. Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) was founded as an Afrikaans language university in 1967 with just over 700 registered students.
Name Class year Field of expertise Academic level Notability References Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs: N/A: Economics: Doctorate (Ph.D.) First chancellor of the Rand Afrikaans University and Minister of Finance of South Africa (1967–1975)