Institutions – SA Education Hub

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Tshwane University of Technology

Gauteng

Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) is a public university of technology established on 1 January 2004 through the merger of three predecessor technikons: Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West, and Technikon Pretoria. It is South Africa’s largest residential higher education institution by enrollment, with more than 60,000 students drawn from across South Africa and the wider African continent.

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Vaal University of Technology

Gauteng

Vaal University of Technology (VUT) traces its origins to the Vaal Triangle College for Advanced Technical Education, which opened in Vanderbijlpark in 1966 with 189 students. It became a Technikon in 1979 and was reclassified as a University of Technology in 2004 as part of South Africa’s post-apartheid higher education restructuring.

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Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Western Cape

Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) was established on 1 January 2005 through the merger of the Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon, as part of South Africa’s post-apartheid restructuring of higher education. Its roots trace back to the Cape Technical College founded in 1920.

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Central University of Technology

Free State

The Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) was established as Technikon Free State in 1981, opening with 285 students, and gained university-of-technology status in 2004 as part of South African higher education restructuring (its 2004 reconstitution also incorporated the former Vista University Welkom campus). CUT is a public university of technology with roughly 22,000 students, operating two campuses: its main campus in Bloemfontein (the judicial capital of South Africa) and a second campus in Welkom in the Free State goldfields.

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Durban University of Technology

KwaZulu-Natal

The Durban University of Technology (DUT) traces its lineage to institutions dating back over a century (it marked its centenary in 2007); it was formed when the ML Sultan Technikon and Technikon Natal merged on 1 April 2002 to create the Durban Institute of Technology, which was renamed DUT in March 2006. DUT is a public university of technology with roughly 30,000 students, operating across seven campuses — five in Durban and two in Pietermaritzburg — in KwaZulu-Natal.

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Mangosuthu University of Technology

KwaZulu-Natal

Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) originated from a 1974 initiative by KwaZulu Chief Minister Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi to establish a technical tertiary institution for black students during the apartheid era; it began teaching in 1979 with just 15 students, was known as Mangosuthu Technikon, and was renamed Mangosuthu University of Technology in November 2007. MUT is a public university of technology with approximately 14,500 students, roughly gender-balanced, and is distinguished as the only university of technology situated in a township — Umlazi, on the outskirts of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

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University of Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga

The University of Mpumalanga (UMP) is one of South Africa’s two newest public universities, formally promulgated in August 2013 and launched in October 2013. It enrolled its first cohort of 169 students in February 2014 across just three programmes.

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Sol Plaatje University

Northern Cape

Sol Plaatje University (SPU) is a public university established in 2014, the first entirely new South African university created since 1994 and the only university based in the Northern Cape province. It is named after Sol Plaatje, the writer and intellectual.