Vista University

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Type Public Location Pretoria, South Africa Founded 1981		Established 1981 (Closed) Phone +264 81 377 2137 Campus Urban
Address Church Rd, Ehrlich Park, Bloemfontein, 9301, South Africa Similar Technikon Witwatersrand, Rand Afrikaans University, University of the Free State, Central University of Techno, University of South Africa

Vista University, South Africa was established in 1981 by the apartheid government to ensure that urban black South Africans seeking tertiary education would be accommodated within the townships rather than on campuses reserved for other population groups.

Campusses

Its campuses were based in Bloemfontein, Daveyton (East Rand), Mamelodi, Port Elizabeth, Sebokeng, Soweto and Welkom. The administrative head office and the Distance Education Campus were located in Pretoria.

Expansion

In the late 1990's/early 2000's the Vista University and the University of Central Florida Consortium developed a mutually interactive program designed to: 1) Create a technologically based distance education program sensitive to local challenges, including the enhancement of Vista University's Distance Education Campus Student Support Centres; and to 2) Enhance the capacity of various programs, including the Sociology program and academic staff through appropriate education instruction models, curriculum development, media-based instruction and research agendas.

Closure

The university has since been closed, student records were archived accordingly, but experienced some corruption in the process of the complex mergers. Its facilities and some members of the staff have been merged into other universities, including:

the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University,

the University of the Free State,

the University of Johannesburg,

the University of Pretoria,

the University of South Africa (VUDEC) and

the Vaal University of Technology.