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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 the Witwatersrand was founded in 1904 as the SA School of Mines from the original 1896 Kimberley School of Mines. It moved to Johannesburg in 1904 after the second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) and became an autonomous university with its own charter and statute in 1922.
The University of the Witwatersrand was named the Transvaal University College from 1906 to 1910. The University of Pretoria was established as the Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College in 1908 and retained that name until 1930. University of Transkei: Transkei: 1977 2005 Now part of Walter Sisulu University for Technology and Science
The School hosts the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies, a platform for urban research, learning and civic engagement.. In recent years the centre has focused on ’urban materialities’ and the place of the poor in South African cities, including how material realities of contemporary cities (their built environments at different scales, access to urban goods and central ...
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is one of seven schools in the University of the Witwatersrand's Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. [1] The School offers 4-year undergraduate degrees and post-graduate degrees in civil engineering. The School offers undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in civil engineering.
www.wits.ac.za /science The Faculty of Science is one of the faculties of the University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , located in TW Kambule Mathematical Sciences Building on West Campus. The Dean of the Faculty is Professor Nithaya Chetty. [ 1 ]
Founded in 1949, the University of Pretoria's now defunct Graduate School of Management was the first business school in South Africa and was the first MBA programme to be launched outside of North America, [1] [2] whilst the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and University of Stellenbosch Business School, founded in 1964, are ...
The Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) was launched in 2014 and is based in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). [1] Initially started as Intercultural and Diversity Studies of Southern Africa (iNCUDISA) at the University of Cape Town, [2] WiCDS was then established at Wits in 2014 and aims to build capacity to meet the challenges of diverse societies ...