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This is a list of universities in South Africa. For the purposes of this list, colleges and universities are defined as accredited, degree-granting, post-secondary institutions. In 2004 South Africa started reforming its higher education system, merging and incorporating small universities into larger institutions, and renaming all higher education institutions "university" (previously there had been several types of higher education institution). The country's universities and "technikons" which were incorporated with others and thus no longer exist are listed at the end of the article.
Contents
- Map of South Africa
- Public universities
- Traditional universities
- Comprehensive universities
- Universities of technology
- Private universities and colleges
- University rankings
- University research collaboratives
- References
Map of South Africa
There are also a large number of other educational institutions in South Africa - some are local campuses of foreign universities, some conduct classes for students who write their exams at the distance-education University of South Africa and some offer unaccredited or non-accredited diplomas. Universities and colleges are accredited by the Council on Higher Education.
Two new universities launched in 2013, Sol Plaatje University and the University of Mpumalanga. They are tentatively classified in the universities of technology category, pending clarification of their programs.
Public universities
Public universities in South Africa are divided into three types: traditional universities, which offer theoretically-oriented university degrees; universities of technology ("technikons"), which offer vocational oriented diplomas and degrees; and comprehensive universities, which offer a combination of both types of qualification.
Traditional universities
Note1: By merger of existing institutions
Note2: The university's business school the Gordon Institute of Business Science has a campus in Illovo and an inner city campus on Pritchard Street, in downtown Johannesburg.
Comprehensive universities
Note1: By merger of existing institutions
Note2: By merger of existing institutions
Universities of technology
Note1: By merger of existing institutions
Private universities and colleges
This list serves as the official government National Register of Private FET Colleges.
This list serves as the official government National Register of Private HET providers.
1In addition offers degrees by Regent University, United States of America
2Campus of Stenden University, The Netherlands
University rankings
League tables of South African universities are largely based on international university rankings, because there have not as yet been published any specifically South African rankings.