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University of Pretoria
  • Universiteit van Pretoria
  • Yunibesithi ya Pretoria
Latin:Universitas Pretoriensis
Other name
TuksorTukkies[1]
Former names
Transvaal University College(1908–1930)[2]
MottoAd destinatum persequor(Latin)
Motto in English
"With zeal and perseverance, strive towards the goal"[3]
TypePublicresearch university
Established4 March 1908;116 years ago(1908-03-04)
Affiliation
EndowmentR7.4 billion (2022)[4]
ChancellorSisi Khampepe[5]
Vice-ChancellorFrancis Petersen[6]
Chairperson of CouncilKuseni Dlamini[7]
Administrative staff
13,814 (full-time)
Students
  • 56,409 (total)[8]
    • 53,131 (contact)
    • 3,278 (distance)
Undergraduates35,942
Postgraduates12,541
Location
Pretoria
,
Gauteng
,
South Africa
Campus7 suburban campuses and facilities[9][10],1,120 hectares (2,800 acres)[9][10]
ColoursBlue, gold, and red
Websitewww.up.ac.za

TheUniversity of Pretoria(Afrikaans:Universiteit van Pretoria,Northern Sotho:Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campuspublicresearch university[11][12]inPretoria,the administrative andde factocapital of South Africa.[13]The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of theJohannesburg-basedTransvaal University Collegeand is the fourth South African institution in continuous operation to be awarded university status. The university has grown from the original 32 students in a single late Victorian house to approximately 53,000 in 2019.[14]The university was built on seven suburban campuses on 1,190 hectares (2,900 acres).[9][10]

The university is organised into nine faculties and a business school. Established in 1920, theUniversity of Pretoria Faculty of Veterinary Scienceis the second oldestveterinary schoolin Africa and the only veterinary school in South Africa.[15]In 1949, the university launched the firstMBAprogramme outside North America,[16]and the university'sGordon Institute of Business Science(GIBS) has consistently been ranked the top business school in Africa for executive education, as well as being placed in the top 50 in the world.[17]In 2012, theFinancial Timesranked the GIBS Executive MBA 1st in Africa and 60th in the world.[17]

Since 1997, the university has produced moreresearch outputsevery year than any other institution of higher learning in South Africa, as measured by theDepartment of Education's accreditation benchmark.[18][19]In 2008, the university awarded 15.8% of all masters and doctorate degrees in South Africa, the highest percentage in the country. The DHET report, released in March 2019, shows that UP achieved the highest percentage (10,93%) of the total research output units of all South African universities for 2017. Fifty-three UP researchers are in the top 1% according to the Web of Science Index of 2019.[20]

The university is commonly referred to as UP, Tuks, or Tukkies[21]and inpost-nominalsthe university is typically abbreviated asPretorUP,althoughPretoriais also used in official publications.

History

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Foundational years: 1889–1929

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The day might come when the Transvaal University College might mean to the Transvaal what Oxford University has meant to England. A long time might have to pass, and for a hundred years we might have to watch the grass growing on our lawns before that day arrives, but noble beginning has been made.

— Jan Smuts,
at the laying of the Old Arts building's foundation stone[22][23][24]
TheOld Arts Buildingin 1910, now aprovincial heritage site
University of Pretoria Main Campus master plan in 1930

The proposal for a university for the capital, first mooted in theVolksraadin 1889, was interrupted by the outbreak of theAnglo–Boer Warin 1899. In 1896, theSouth African School of Mineswas founded inKimberley.Eight years later, in 1904, the school was moved to Johannesburg and was renamed the Transvaal Technical Institute. The school's name changed yet again in 1906 to Transvaal University College. In 1902, after the signing of thePeace of Vereeniging,the Normal College for teacher training was established in Groenkloof, Pretoria.[25]On 4 March 1908, when the Transvaal University College (TUC) transferred its arts and science courses to its newly established Pretoria campus, the precursor to the university was established, initially offering courses in languages, sciences, and law.[26][27][1]

Instruction commenced with 32 students, 4 professors and 3 lecturers in theKya Rosa,270 Skinner Street a lateVictorianresidence purchased from Leo Weinthal the then owner ofThe Press(forerunner to thePretoria Newsnewspaper).[28][29][30][31]The first four professors were H. Th. Reinink (Dutch), J. Purves (Scottish), D.F. du Toit Malherbe (South African) and A.C. Paterson (Scottish), who would also become the first vice-chancellor.[25]

In 1910, the colonial secretary, GeneralJan Smutstabled the act constituting the university as a separate entity before the Transvaal Parliament, the "Transvaalse and Universiteits-Inlijvingswet" Law 1 of 1910. On 17 May 1910, the Johannesburg and Pretoria campuses separated, each becoming an independent institution. The Johannesburg campus being reincorporated as theSouth African School of Mines and Technology,while the Pretoria campus retained the name of Transvaal University College until 1930.[32]TheSouth African School of Mines and Technologywould later go on to become theUniversity of the Witwatersrandin 1922.[33]In 1910, the TUC acquired its own campus in the east of Pretoria, what is now the western part of the university's main campus inHatfield.[25][34]On 3 August 1910, Governor-GeneralHerbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstonelaid the cornerstone of theOld Arts Building,the first building to be built on the newly established Hatfield campus.[35]The building's strikingCape DutchandNeo-Romanesquearchitectural style was recognised in 1968 when it was declared aprovincial heritage site.[36]During this time the colloquial name for the university, Tukkies or Tuks, was derived from theAfrikaansacronym for the college, i.e. Transvaalse Universiteitskollege (TUK).

The late 1910s and early 1920s saw the establishment of several faculties as the academic activities were expanded. Courses in agriculture (1917), theology (1918), economics and political science (1919), veterinary science (1920), and music (1923) were established as the institution grew.[26]

Establishment and expansion years 1929–1982

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A newspaper article celebrating the name change
The Administration Building (nicknamed "The Ship" ) at the corner of Lynnwood and University Roads inHatfield,Pretoria[37]

On 10 October 1930, the University of Pretoria Private Act, No. 13 of 1930 changed the name of the TUC to the University of Pretoria.[38]The TUC originally established as an English-medium institution had evolved into the only fully bilingual university in South Africa and remained as such until the early 1930s. The rapid increase of Afrikaans-speaking students brought about an imbalance between the demographics of students and the languages of instruction. By 1931, although 65% of students were Afrikaans-speaking, 68% of the classes were conducted in English. In 1932, the University Council addressed the imbalance, deciding that Afrikaans would become the only medium of instruction. An increase in student numbers necessitated the building of new facilities such as the Club Hall and Administration Building (colloquially known as the ship) when the seventh faculty, the Medical Faculty, was established in 1943.[25]This period further saw the establishment of numerous student activities such as the annual Spring Day event and intervarsity. Student publications established include theTrekin 1931, the firstRag Magin 1936 and the weekly student newspaperDie Perdebyin 1939.[25]The period of 1948–1982 is characterised by the substantial increase in numbers of an almost exclusively white student body and the concomitant physical growth of the university infrastructure. The nearly doubling of student numbers demanded the physical expansion of the Hatfield campus and new buildings were built in quick succession as the campus grew eastward.[25]In the mid-1960s, the university urgently required additional land and acquired the adjacent property ofChristian Brothers' College,Saint Gabriel's.[39]This property now forms the eastern section of the Hatfield campus.

In 1949, the university founded the Graduate School of Management (GSM),[40]

Transformation years: 1982 and beyond

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University of Pretoria Faculty of Lawbuilding

During the period of 1982 to 2008, the university transformed into a bilingual, multiracial and inclusive institution. The comparatively smooth introduction of students from all races formed the initial impetus for transformation and in 1989 the university was declared officially desegregated and opened for all races. In 1993, a policy document was introduced, aiming to position the university in a newlydemocratic South Africa.In 1994, the university regained its status as a bilingual university when a new language policy was adopted. However, in 2019 a new language policy was adopted which discontinued Afrikaans as a language of instruction in favour of English only.[41]

In 1999, the only two veterinary science faculties in the country, those of the University of Pretoria andSefako Makgatho Health Sciences University,formerly Medunsa, were amalgamated. The university'sOnderstepoortcampus once again housed the only veterinary faculty in South Africa. In 2000, the Teachers Training College Pretoria, formerly the Normal College Pretoria founded in 1902, was incorporated into the university's Faculty of Education, which saw the faculty moving to the self-sufficientGroenkloofcampus.[25]

The university's business school in Illovo,Johannesburg,theGordon Institute of Business Science(GIBS), was established in January 2000 following a substantial contribution bySir Donald Gordon,the founder ofLiberty LifeandLiberty International,and a major investment by the University of Pretoria following discussions which started in 1998. The now defunctVista University'sMamelodicampus was incorporated on 2 January 2004, as part of the restructuring of South African tertiary institutions.[42]In 2011, GIBS opened a satellite campus on Pritchard Street in the inner city of Johannesburg.[43][44]The Business school follows on the university's, now defunct Graduate School of Management's, long tradition ofMBAtuition as the first business school outside North America and replaced it in January 2008.[45]

Administration and organisation

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Governance

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Further information:List of chancellors and vice-chancellors of the University of Pretoria
Faculty founding
Faculty Year founded
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences 1920
Faculty of Education 1902
Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology 1908
Faculty of Health Sciences 1943
Faculty of Humanities 1908
Faculty of Law 1908
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences 1917
Faculty of Theology 1919
Faculty of Veterinary Science 1920
Gordon Institute of Business Science 2000

As set out in theHigher Education Act No 101 of 1997,the university is governed by the council with the vice-chancellor and principal,Tawana Kupe,the executive head responsible for the day-to-day administration, and the chancellor,Justice Sisi Khampempe,being the non-resident titular head of the university.[46][47]The registrar is responsible for the academic administration of the university, as well as legal matters, and is secretary to the University Council and Senate.

The university's academic activities are divided into nine faculties and one business school. Whilst the faculties comprise 140 departments and 85 institutes, bureaus and centres.[48]

Main campus

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The Old Arts building now contains several museums

Hatfield

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The university's main campus and central administration offices are situated in the suburb ofHatfield,Pretoriaand houses six of the nine faculties.[49][50]The campus, bordered by the suburb ofBrooklynto the south and Hatfield to the north, was built over 24 hectares (59 acres) and has more than 60 buildings of historical value.[51]

Adjacent to the Hatfield campus is the Hillcrest campus, which contains the High Performance Centre and LC de Villiers Sports Grounds, which were developed on 76 hectares (190 acres).[52]Adjacent to the sport grounds is the university's experimental farm, which is used to conduct field experiments for the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.[53]The campus is served by theHatfield Gautrain stationconnecting Pretoria andJohannesburg.A university bus shuttle service operates between the Hatfield campus and the Groenkloof and Prinshof campuses, whilst a park-and-ride shuttle service operates between the Hatfield and Hillcrest campus.

Museums

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The university's art collection consists primarily of paintings, sculptures and graphic works by South African artists including the likes ofJacobus Hendrik Pierneef,Gregoire Boonzaier,William Kentridgeand Sam Nhlengethwa. The collection also incorporates artworks by renowned international artists such asMax Pechstein,Käthe Kollwitz,Max Liebermann,George Grosz,Otto Mueller,Rembrandt van Rijn,Thomas BentonandMarc Chagall.The university's sculpture collection, the largest such collection in South Africa, contains sculptures by Sidney Kumalo, Maureen Quinn, Michael Teffo, Anton Smit and others.[54]

The Old Arts Building was proclaimed aprovincial heritage sitein 1968[55]and houses the Van Tilburg Collection, Van Gybland-Oosterhoff Collection andMapungubwe Collection.TheVan Tilburg Collectionis a permanent museum that exhibits 17th and 18th century furniture,[56]paintings,[57]Delftceramics[58]and other works of art, and includes the largest South African collection of Chinese ceramic objects, from theQin(221–206 BC),Han(202 BC – AD 220),Tang(AD 618–906),Song(AD 960–1279),Ming(1368–1644) andQing(1644–1912) dynasties.[58]

What survives are the almost untouched remains of the palace sites and also the entire settlement area dependent upon them, as well as two earlier capital sites, the whole presenting an unrivalled picture of the development of social and political structures over some 400 years.

— UNESCO,
on the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site[59]

The university is the custodian of the collection of artefacts found at theMapungubweNational Park andWorld Heritage Site[60][61]and such display these artefacts in the Javett Art Centre.[62][63]Gold ornaments, ivory, bone, ceramic-ware, clay figurines, trade beads, iron and copper artefacts are on permanent public display.[64]TheVan Gybland-Oosterhoff Collectionis a ceramic collection, donated by Dr Horace Hugo Alexander van Gybland Oosterhoff and accepted by the university on 14 March 1939, is the largest collection of objects, publications, memorabilia and photographs of historical interest, relating to Dutch culture outside the Netherlands.[65][66]

The Old Merensky Library houses theEdoardo Villa Museum,the home of the largest collection of sculptures by the Italian artistEdoardo Villaand one South Africa's most renowned sculptors, who was mentored byMinottiat the Scuola D’Arte Andrea Fontoniby.[67][68]

TheVan Wouw Museumis the largest collection of bronze, marble and plaster sculptures by the famous pioneer South African sculptor,Anton van Wouw(1862–1945).[69]Van Wouw, who is widely regarded as the founder of traditional sculpture in South Africa,[70]created masterful artworks portraying Boer figures and the indigenous peoples of South Africa. Besides documents, photos, paintings and tools the exhibits are mainlybronzemaquettesand casts of Van Wouw's sculptural work.[71]The Van Wouw Museum is housed in Anton Van Wouw's last residence,[72]a Dutch national monument.

Other minor art collections include theChristo Coetzeecollection which was bequeathed to the university by the artist in 2001 and consists of more than 3000 objects, NPK Ceramics Collection,Hilgard MullerCollection, Mike Edwards Collection,KrugerCollection, Frans Esterhuizen Cartoon Collection, Hansie Visagie Puppet Collection, Friends of the Pretoria Art Association Art Collection, Baldinelli Trust Collection andMimi CoertseCollection.

A retiredSAAFMirage F1CZdonated to the university and assembled with the help of theSouth African Air Force MuseumfromAFB Swartkop,the Air Force Servicing Unit at theWaterkloof Air Force Base,Mirage specialists fromAerosud,Lona Construction and Intermine Agencies. The Mirage F1 was assembled in order to promote science and technology at the University of Pretoria.[73]

The university's Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Discovery Centre, Sci-Enza, was officially launched in 1977.[74]The Discovery Centre is an umbrella complex where young children, students and adults can explore the world of science, engineering and technology in a "play-as-you-learn" way.[74]Activities at the Centre museum include: a digitalplanetarium;exploratorium;camera obscura;[75]biological science exhibit; botanical garden[76]and indigenous technology exhibit.[77]

Key places

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Main article:Kya Rosa
The University Chapel

The main hall and site of ceremonies, the Aula, was designed by Karel Jooste and completed in 1958. The Aula was the first opera house to be built in the capital and remained the major venue in the city until the State Theatre's completion in the early 1980s.[79]The 1012-seat auditorium[80]has played host to foreign dignitaries, presidents[81]and local and international artists.[82]The main music complex, comprising the 500-seat Musaion and 3000-seat Amphitheatre, was built between 1960 and 1964.[83]The University Chapel, formally the Church ofSaint Alfons Maria de Liguori,and the accompanying monastery, was built in 1925 and was bought from the Catholic Church in 1980. Saint Alfons, who was canonised in 1839, was the founder of the order of Ligournians (orRedemptorists), an order founded in 1732 in Naples, Italy and dedicated to helping underprivileged communities.[84]

Other campuses

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Onderstepoort, Pretoria

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The possibility of training veterinarians in South Africa was frequently raised after the first Colonial Veterinary Surgeon in South Africa was appointed in approximately 1874, but it was not until 1920 that the Swiss-born veterinarian,Sir Arnold Theiler,was appointed as Director of Veterinary Education and Research at Onderstepoort under the supervision of the then Transvaal University College. New facilities were inaugurated at the end of 1921 and the first residence was opened in 1924. The first eight South African trained veterinarians qualified in 1924.

The Faculty of Veterinary Sciences was developed on the 65 hectares (160 acres) Onderstepoort campus, with buildings covering a total of 55,000 square metres (590,000 sq ft) 30 kilometres (19 mi) north-west of the Hatfield campus and 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of the Pretoria city center. TheOnderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospitalprovides clinical services rendered with full student participation as part of the primary teaching mission of the Faculty of Veterinary Science.[85]It is the only faculty in South Africa educating veterinarians and veterinary nurses.[86][87]

Groenkloof, Pretoria

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Groenkloof campus as seen fromKlapperkophill.

During the Conference of Teachers in Town and Refugee Camp Schools of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony of 1–10 July 1902, a resolution was passed to establish "Normal Schools" for the education of teachers in Johannesburg and Pretoria. The Pretoria Normal School, was first established in a house in 126 Rissik Street. In 1903 the Johannesburg Normal School's 40 students were transferred to Pretoria when it was closed and the Pretoria and Johannesburg institutions were merged to form the Transvaal Normal College. When the Transvaal University College was established in 1908 the first students include students from the Transvaal Normal College. In 1909 the school was renamed the Pretoria Normal College when new teacher training facilities were established in Heidelberg and Johannesburg. In 1954 the school was again renamed to theOnderwyskollege van Pretoria(English: Teachers College Pretoria). In 1974 the University of Pretoria took over the sole responsibility for training secondary teacher from the Teachers College Pretoria.

Although the Teachers College Pretoria purchased new college grounds in Groenkloof during 1975, the college only occupied the new grounds in 1988 and was inaugurated in 1989. The JohannesburgGoudstadse Onderwyskollege,'Gold-city Teachers College', Transvaal College of Education, Laudium and the Transvaal Education College Soshanguve amalgamate and move their operations to the Teachers College Pretoria in 1993 and the latter two in 1998 respectively. In 2000 the Teachers Training College Pretoria was incorporated into the university's Faculty of Education, which saw the faculty moving from the main Hatfield campus to the self-sufficientGroenkloofcampus.[88][89]

Prinshof, Pretoria

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25°43′57″S28°12′10″E/ 25.73250°S 28.20278°E/-25.73250; 28.20278

Students in the Faculty of Health Sciences are taught at thePrinshofcampus, adjoining theSteve Biko Hospital(formerly Pretoria Academic Hospital and HF Verwoerd Hospital), the main healthcare training facility of the university, and theTshwane District Hospital.[90]Additional healthcare training facilities include theKalafong Hospitalon the western outskirts of Pretoria in the suburb ofAtteridgeville,theWeskoppies Psychiatric Hospitalwest of the city centre and built on the site of the old Pretoria botanical gardens and Tembisa Hospital south of Pretoria in theEast Rand,Johannesburg.

Illovo, Johannesburg

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The university's business school, theGordon Institute of Business Science(GIBS) purpose-designed by the architect and urban designer Henri Comrie, is situated alongIllovoBoulevard, a mixed-use commercial precinct between the suburbs ofRosebankandSandtonin Johannesburg,[91]with a satellite Inner City campus on Pritchard Street.[92]The Illovo campus is served by theRosebank Gautrainstation, with a nearby Gautrain bus stop and the inner city campus by theJohannesburg Park Station.GIBS Europe operates out of London, United Kingdom offering company specific programmes.

Other sites

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TheWitbankandHammanskraalsatellite campuses, were established in 1988 and 1994 respectively and are used as additional practical facilities and for community engagement.[93]The now defunctVista University'sMamelodicampus was incorporated on 2 January 2004, as part of the restructuring of South African tertiary institutions.[42]The Mamelodi campus hosts the extended BSc degree programme and functions as the community engagement hub for the university.[94]

Academics

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Library system

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The Old Merensky Library
See also:University of Pretoria Library ServicesandUniversity of Pretoria Special Collections

"This country has given me so much that I am only too happy to be allowed to help it to develop and to be able to give back to it a fraction of what it has given to me".

— Hans Merensky
at the opening of the Merensky Library ".[95]

In 1933, the university decided that the library collection necessitated the building of a new library building, the collection which at that time was kept in the Old Arts building. The library was designed by the South African architect Gerard Moerdijk, following a donation of £10,000 (£697,337 as of 2018) from mining geologist Hans Merensky and construction started in 1937.[96]Drawing from his inspiration from Persia and Africa, the design of the building incorporates several architectural styles including Art Deco, Neo-Classicism, Arts and Crafts, Cape Dutch and Regency. The Old Merensky Library was proclaimed aprovincial heritage sitein 1991.[97]

Despite expansions to the Old Merensky Library in 1957, the library subsequently became insufficient to meet the growing needs of the institution and in 1975 the Merensky Library II was completed, currently housing 7 of 9 the faculty libraries.[98]Besides the main Merensky Library complex, the university library system also includes the separately administered Jotello F Soga Library (Veterinary Science), Oliver R Tambo Law Library, Education Library, Mamelodi Library, Dentistry Library and Health Sciences Library.[99]

The Oliver R Tambo Law Library houses theFaculty of Law's collection of legal materials and the Law of Africa collection in the library is the single most comprehensive and current collection of primary legal materials of African countries.[100]

In 1974 the Jotello F Soga Library of theFaculty of Veterinary Scienceat the Onderstepoort campus was established and is named in honour of the first South African to qualify as a veterinary surgeon,Dr Jotello Festiri Soga.[101]

In 2006 the university establishedUPSpace,its own open access digital research repository.[102]and the university's library has since become one of 27 partners in theWorld Digital Library project.[103]

Archives

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In 1978 the first task group responsible for the investigation in creating an archive system for the University of Pretoria was chaired byProf. A.N. Pelzer(Vice-rector). Due to the death of Prof. Pelzer in 1981 the project stalled, but by 1994 the need for a central archive system was again recognised by the acting Registrar, Prof. C.R. de Beer. The archives were finally established by 13 September 1994 by the Management of the university and this date is considered as the founding date of the archives of the University of Pretoria.[104]

Research

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The Faculty of Humanities building, designed by alumnus Brian Sandrock, was constructed over Roper Street in 1977[105]

The university's achievements and performance in research locally and internationally, including its collaboration and cooperation with the private sector, industry, science councils, foundations and NGOs, the large number of graduates that it produces (particularly doctoral and other postgraduate students) as well as scientists and engineers[106]and its focus on innovation,[107]contribute directly towards enhancing the South Africa's competitiveness.[108]A 2010 report by Centre for Higher Education Transformation identified the university as a top research-intensive university in South Africa.[109]The university is member of theCDIO Initiative,an international engineering education collaboration.[110][111]

Main article:Southern Education and Research Alliance

The strategic alliance formed in 1999 between the University of Pretoria and theCouncil for Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR), has been abandoned for unpublished reasons.[112]This alliance, which was known as the Southern Education and Research Alliance[113](SERA), collaborated locally and internationally with universities, NGOs, companies and multinational bodies in various research areas.[114]

Notable research includes:

Digital institutional repositories

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UPeTD

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UPeTD (University of Pretoria electronic theses and dissertations) was launched in July 2000 and forms part of the university's open scholarship programme.[116]In August 2021, the Webometrics World Ranking of Institutional Repositories, UPSpace is ranked 130th Internationally, 2nd in Africa and 1st in South Africa.[117]The records in UPeTD were migrated to the UPSpace institutional repository in August 2014, and UPeTD was subsequently discontinued.

UPSpace

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UPSpace(Institutional research repository of the University of Pretoria) is the name of the open access digitalinstitutional repositoryof the University of Pretoria, established as a means for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.[118]UPSpace contains a collection of the intellectual and research output produced by past and current researchers of the University of Pretoria. The spectrum of material covered includes the following: historical or archival material, research articles, popular research material, unpublished research, inaugural addresses, conference proceedings, technical reports and open lectures.[119]

Reputation and ranking

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University rankings
Global – Overall
ARWUWorld[120]401–500 (2023)
QSWorld[121]=323 (2024)
THEWorld[122]501–600 (2024)
League table rankings
See also:Rankings of universities in South AfricaandRankings of business schools in South Africa
University of Pretoria World Ranking
UP Times Higher Education Ranking 2016 to 2024
Year World Rank
2024 501–600
2023 801–1000
2022 601–800
2021 601–800
2020 601–800
2019 601–800
2018 601–800
2017 601-800
2016 501-600
[123][124][125][126][127][128][129][130][131][132][133][134][135][136]

TheQS World University Rankingsranks the university as follows:[137]

Year World rank Art & Humanities Archaeology Biological Sciences Engineering & IT Life Sciences Agriculture & Forestry Theology Social Sciences
2020 551–570 383 151–200 301–350 364 348 51–100 51–100 320
2019 561–570 365 151–200 301–350 401–450 360 101–150 51–100 334
2018 501–550 345 151–200 351–400 — 391 101–150 51–100 398
2017 451–500 351–400 151–200 301–350 351–400 — 101–150 51–100 351–400
2016 401–500 — — 301–400 291 — 101–150 — —
2015 501+ — — 301–400 — — 101–150 — —
2014 469 405 — — 368 367 51–100 — 290
Financial Times World Ranking 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2104 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Executive MBA[17] - - - - 67 60 70 80 87 74 87 67 82
Executive Education Customised[17] 49 51 41 38 - 42 – 53 53 45 41 51 45 60
Executive Education Open[138] 39 38 49 50 49 47 – 45 48 46 52 45 38 32

In January 2011Webometricsranked the university as the 2nd in South Africa and Africa.[139]

In January 2015Webometricsranked the university as the 3rd in South Africa and 4th Africa.[140]

In July 2015Webometricsranked the university as the 4th in South Africa and Africa.[140]

GIBS again ranks in the top 100 – UK Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2019.[141]

  • Kya Rosa, the original building of the Transvaal University College
    Kya Rosa,the original building of the Transvaal University College
  • The first student council in 1909
    The first student council in 1909
  • Rag festivities in Church Square in 1910
    Rag festivities in Church Square in 1910
  • Welcoming day for first years in 1929
    Welcoming day for first years in 1929
  • The university's mascot, Oom Gert in 1939
    The university's mascot, Oom Gert in 1939

Student life

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Number of Student Registrations per Ethnic Group
Ethnic Group 2020 % 2021 % 2022 %
African 26,831 52% 29,542 54.79% 31,281 57.4%
Coloured 1,558 3% 1,680 3.11% 1,758 3.2%
Indian 3,205 6.2% 3,516 6.52% 3,452 6.3%
White 19,336 37.9% 19,141 35.5% 17,929 32.9%
Undisclosed 25 0.1% 33 0.1% 46 0.1%
Total 50,955 100% 53,912 100% 54,446 100%

Residential life

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Residence is provided to students in 24 undergraduate and postgraduate residences and 3 postgraduate-only residences spread over the university's campuses.[142]The first students of the Transvaal University College resided in theKya Rosa,a Victorian house in Skinner Street. In 1915, the first male residence, Kollegetehuis, was constructed on the Hatfield campus[143]and the first female residence, Asterhof, in 1925.[144]Students not living in a university residence can join one of four Day Houses (Docendo,Dregeana,Luminous,andVividus Ladies) which gives them the opportunity to partake in organised student life activities.[145]

Student organisations

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More than 100 student clubs and organisations operate on the university campus.[146]These include numerous student government, service providers, and service organisations. The most prominent amongst these are the Student Parliament, Student Representative Council, and Constitutional Tribunal (Student Court). The Student Parliament is the plenary body of student governance and determines the wider mandate for student governance. The Student Representative Council (SRC) is the executive body of student governance and subsequently charters and provides most of the funding for other student groups, and represents students' interests when dealing with the administration. The SRC is the residential student government, specialising in programming, policy, and facilities and services. Societies are registered in the following categories as catering for religious, political, social, cultural, academic and other. The Constitutional Tribunal is the judicial body of student governance and adjudicates disputes primarily between student organisations. Its judges sit on the panel of student disciplinary hearings. The various service providers are the university's primary programming organisations, serving as a centre of social, cultural, intellectual and recreational life.

Student activities

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The university has a long tradition of student activities and traditions. It is common belief that if a blossom from aJacarandatree falls on your head, you will do well in the end-of-year exams.[147][148]Other traditions and customs vary by residence, day house and faculty.

The university started the tradition ofRag (student society)(Afrikaans: Jool), a student-run charitable fundraising organisation, in South Africa in 1925.[149]During Rag, students take to the streets in a parade of floats whilst collecting money for charity.

The university's Springday celebrations are a declared university holiday and are held annually on the second Wednesday of September.[150]

Students' song and dance competitions include Insync (formerly Ienkmelodienk),[151]Serenade and Serrie. In addition, the university's Drama Department hosts the annual week-long Krêkvars Arts Festival each July in the intimate Bok, Lier and Masker theatres on Hatfield campus. The festival has transformed from an event started in 2000 and centred around the drama honours students' directing course to an open festival where other students and the public at large are encouraged to put on productions.[152]

The amphitheatre hosts the annual Insync song and dance competition between the first years of the various residences and day houses in January.[153]The annual Serenade and Serrie singing competitions between the residences and day houses are held in the Musaion and Aula theatres in July/August and April/May respectively. The winners of the Serenade competition go on to represent the university at the National Serenade competition.[154]

The university maintains the: UP Symphony Orchestra (UPSO), the only comprehensive student orchestra in Pretoria frequently performing symphonic repertoires,[155]UP Chorale, UP Brass Band,Tuks Camerata,[156]UP Children's choir, UP Concert choir and the UP Youth choir. The university supports, and has been host to the annualNational Youth Orchestracourse for a number of years.[157]

In addition to cultural activities, students participate in several other non-cultural activities. The university organises the annualSAE Internationalsanctioned student automotive engineeringBaja SAEcompetition in South Africa sponsored bySasol.[158]Baja SAE is an intercollegiate and interuniversity design competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) where teams of engineering students design, build and race small off-road cars.

Mascot

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Oom Gert (translates affectionately to Uncle Gert, from Dutch and Afrikaans) has been the official university mascot since 1929 and has been the object of perennial attempted kidnappings.[159]

Student media

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The Perdeby (lit.The Wasp), the official university newspaper, was founded in 1939[160]and has a readership of approximately 30 000.[161]Tuks FM(107.2 FM), the campus radio station, was established on 9 February 1981 and is hosted by university students and broadcast to the Northern Gauteng area.[162]

Civic service

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Civic service and outreach programmes are performed in the fields in which the university has proven competencies. These fields include professional associations, business and management and are performed in underdeveloped or developing communities.[163]

Sport

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The High Performance Centre on the LC de Villiers Sport Grounds
Main article:University of Pretoria F.C.
See also:Varsity RugbyandVarsity Sports (South Africa)

The university maintains a long tradition of student participation in sport and recreation. The university has 30 registered sport clubs and 10 academies, in which 9 000 students annually participate in on a competitive and recreational level,[10]more than 1 000 volunteers are involved in sport in various designations and capacities. In 2007, the university produced 93 SeniorProteasandSpringboksand 4South Africa national rugby union team(Springbok) Captains.[164]The university's sports facilities, on the Hillcrest campus, include the LC de Villiers Sports Grounds and the High Performance Centre (HPC), situated at an altitude of approximately 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) above sea level, were developed on an area of 760,000 square metres (8,200,000 sq ft).[165][166]

The HPC, which was established in 2002, has become the favoured location for the pre-departure camps of Team South Africa in addition to being chosen by several national and international federations as their preferred specialisation centre.[165][167][168]

The HPC has a bifurcated role between hosting the TuksSport academies and hosting athletes and teams for pre-season or pre-event training. The HPC includes the Institute for Sport Research, Sport Science and Medical Unit and the Sports Law Centre.[169]

HPC's TuksSport High School, established in 2002, is an independent specialised co-ed sports school catering for Grade 8 – 12 learners following the National Curriculum as offered by the Gauteng Department of Education. The school is supported by several national sporting federations and allows learners to train and travel internationally whilst staying in school.[170]

Rugby

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University of Pretoria Rugby team circa 1930

Rugby is a particularly popular sport, and there are competitions between residences, faculties, and the university participates in the National Club Championships, Carlton Cup[171][172]and theVarsity CupRugby Uniontournament, involving the top 8 rugby playing universities in the South Africa. In the 2012 and 2013 seasons, the university won the Varsity Cup and the under 20-year-old Varsity Rugby Young Guns competitions.[173]

TheTUKS Rugby Leagueteam has their football ground as their home ground.

Mind Sports

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The university has a very active club that was only founded in 2013. The club is affiliated toMind Sports South Africaand caters for all the disciplines that are controlled by such National Federation.

The club has had some major successes in 2014, with no less than 12 gamers qualifying for National Team Trials. The club has also become the top university club in South Africa.[174]

Football

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In 2002 the university established the Tuks Football Academy and theUniversity of Pretoria F.C.oginally playing in the SAFA Gauteng South Division. In the 2003–04 season the university acquired Pretoria City F.C.'s second division status, subsequently winning the National First Division (NFD)Vodacom Leagueplay-offs and being promoted to the NFD in 2004–05. In the 2006–07 season the club qualified for theMvela Golden Leagueplay-offs. In the 2008–09 season the club was aNedbank Cupfinalist losing toPremier Soccer LeagueteamMoroka Swallows0–1.[175]

Following the 2011/2012 season theUniversity of Pretoria F.C.gained promotion to the South AfricanPremier Soccer League(PSL), the top domestic league.[176][177]

Alumni and people

[edit]
Main article:List of University of Pretoria alumni
See also:List of chancellors and vice-chancellors of the University of Pretoria

The university, in more than a century of academic service, has delivered more than 250 000 alumni.[178]

Alumni in commerce include several CEOs ofJSETop 50 and AmericanFortune 500companies.[179]Dr.Anton Rupertwas a South African entrepreneur, businessman, conservationist and founder of theRembrandt Group,which eventually split up intoRemgro,Richemont,the second-largest luxury goods company in the world by turnover, andReinet Investments,as of January 2008 the largest component of theLuxembourg Stock Exchange.[180]He was honoured as Tukkie of the century, former chancellor of the university,[179]and a major benefactor of the university.[181]Marius Klopperswas the CEO ofBHP,the world's largest mining company and named byCNN Moneyas the world's 18th most powerful person in business.[182][183]Johan De Nysschen was the former president at Audi Japan and is the current president of Audi America.[184]Russell Loubser is a former CEO of theJohannesburg Stock Exchange,and a member of the team that started the futures industry in South Africa in 1987.[185]Meyer Kahn is the Chairman ofSABMillerthe second largest brewer in the world.[186]

Alumni in law include several Judges of the High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court as well as serving as United Nations Special Rapporteurs and theUnited Nations International Law Commission.Johann van der Westhuizenis a judge in theConstitutional Courtof South Africa.[187]He was appointed to the bench in 2004 byThabo Mbeki.He was previously a professor at theUniversity of Pretoria Faculty of Lawand the founding director of the university'sCentre for Human Rights.[188]He currently sits on the board of the Centre for Human Rights and the University of Pretoria Council.[188]Johann Kriegleris a formerConstitutional CourtandAppeal Courtjudge from South Africa.Christof Heyns (10 January 1959 – 28 March 2021),[189]a former director (1999–2006) of theCentre for Human Rights,was a professor of human rights law, co-director of theInstitute for International and Comparative Law in Africaat the University of Pretoria andUnited Nations Special Rapporteuron extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.[190]Dire Tladiis a former Principal State Law Adviser for International Law for the South AfricanDepartment of International Relations and Cooperation,legal advisor to the South Africa Mission to the United Nations[191]and member of theUnited Nations International Law Commission.

Alumni in divinity include several theologians. Albert Geyserwas a South Africancleric,scholarand anti-apartheidtheologian. He was one of the first Afrikaner nationalists to speak out against theBroederbondand apartheid on theological grounds. He is also known for his work as one of a number of scholars involved in the first annotated edition (1953–1958) of the Bible inAfrikaans.Johan Heyns,was an influentialAfrikaner Calvinisttheologianandmoderatorof the generalsynodof theNederduits Gereformeerde Kerk(NGK). He wasassassinated,although his murder was never officially resolved it is widely believed[192]that it was directly related to his criticism ofApartheid.[193]Nelson Mandelapaid homage to him as a martyr for his country[194]and a soldier of peace.[195]

Alumni include several sporting personalities. South Africa national rugby union team member's (Springboks) associated with the university include coachHeyneke Meyer[196]and former Springbok captainsVictor Matfield,Wynand Claassen,Naas BothaandJoost van der Westhuizen.Other notable sporting personalities includeCaster Semenya,Tatjana Schoenmaker[197][198]andOscar Pistorius,who became the first double amputee runner at an Olympic Games when he competed at the London2012 Summer Olympics.

  • Graduate with a banner of the TUC
    Graduate with a banner of the TUC
  • Graduation ceremony in 1918
    Graduation ceremony in 1918
  • Graduation ceremony in 1920
    Graduation ceremony in 1920
  • Graduation ceremony in 1922
    Graduation ceremony in 1922

Disputes

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In 2022, when the university allegedly owedTshwaneR34 million in outstanding municipal bills, Tshwane moved to disconnect the water and power supply of their Hillcrest campus. The university paid up under protest at the last minute, stating that an interruption would compromise various facilities including student residences, sensitive research equipment and experiments, data centres and live animals.[199]

The university's medical school has been ranked among the top five in the country.[200]In 2022 Dr Angelique Coetzee, then chairwoman of theSouth African Medical Association,stated in a radio interview that admission processes at medical schools are highly politicized, and that medical faculties implement race quotas.[201]After she apologized for her statements and resigned as chairwoman,Dirk HermannofSolidarityreiterated that race-based admission processes were explicitly included in admission policies, and stated that these were detrimental to white students and health care.[201]

Notable faculty

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See also:Category:Academic staff of the University of Pretoria

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