University of Pretoria

The University of Pretoria (UP) traces its origins to 1908, when the Pretoria campus of the Transvaal University College opened with 32 students in a house called Kya Rosa; it became a fully independent university in 1930. UP has grown into one of South Africa's largest research universities, with over 56,000 total students (around 53,000 contact and 3,000 distance students), roughly 36,000 undergraduates and 12,500 postgraduates. It operates across seven campuses in and around Pretoria, with its main campus in Hatfield, plus specialised campuses such as Onderstepoort (veterinary science), Groenkloof (education) and Prinshof (health sciences), and its Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) based in Illovo, Johannesburg. UP is particularly noted for hosting the only Faculty of Veterinary Science in South Africa, strong engineering, natural and agricultural sciences, law, and health sciences faculties, and consistently ranks among the top research-output universities in the country.

Faculties & Programmes

Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) – School of Engineering: Chemical Engineering, Civil and Biosystems Engineering, Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Mining Engineering; School for the Built Environment: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Architecture, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Town and Regional Planning; School of Information Technology: Computer Science, Informatics, Information Science; Graduate School of Technology Management: Technology Management, Project Management, Engineering Management
Faculty of Health Sciences – four schools: School of Medicine; School of Dentistry; School of Health Care Sciences (Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Radiography, Nursing Science); School of Health Systems and Public Health
Faculty of Humanities – 12 academic departments including Humanities Education, plus a range of arts, language and social science disciplines and specialised research centres
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences – Departments of Accounting, Auditing, Taxation, Financial Management, Economics, Marketing Management, Human Resource Management and Business Management, and the School for Public Management and Administration; BCom and BAdmin degrees plus honours, masters and doctoral programmes
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences – 13 departments including Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, Anatomy, Animal and Wildlife Science, Biochemistry, Consumer Science, Food Science, Genetics, Geography/Geoinformatics/Meteorology, Geology, Insurance and Actuarial Science, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Physics, Plant Production and Soil Science, Plant Science, Statistics, Zoology and Entomology
Faculty of Law – Departments of Jurisprudence, Mercantile Law, Private Law, Procedural Law, Public Law, and the Centre for Human Rights; undergraduate LLB and postgraduate LLM/LLD
Faculty of Veterinary Science – only veterinary faculty in South Africa, based at Onderstepoort, offering the BVSc degree and postgraduate veterinary specialisations
Faculty of Theology and Religion – theological and religious studies programmes
Faculty of Education – based at Groenkloof campus, teacher education and educational studies
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) – MBA and executive/postgraduate business education, based in Illovo, Johannesburg

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