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Tshwane University of Technology (TUT; af, Tshwane-Universiteit vir Tegnologie) is a
higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after compl ...
institution in South Africa that came into being through a merger of three technikons — Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria. As the number of students registering annually grows rapidly, records show that Tshwane University of Technology caters for approximately more than 60,000 students and it has become the largest residential higher education institution in
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.


Campuses

The university occupies eight campuses:
Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends eastward into the foothi ...
, Soshanguve, Ga-Rankuwa,
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eMalahleni Witbank (), officially Emalahleni, is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the Emalahleni Local Municipality. The name Witbank is Afrikaans for "white ridge", and is named after a white sandstone outcrop where wag ...
), Mbombela (
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) and
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. Two faculties, namely the Faculties of Science and The Arts, have dedicated campuses in the Pretoria city centre.


Student enrollment

There were 88,078 students enrolled for the year 2012 at the Tshwane University of Technology. It was estimated, for the year 2014, that the number of first year student applications the university received were around 80,000. Tshwane University of Technology predominantly provides vocational qualifications in the form of three-year diplomas. Articulation options exist in the form of advanced diplomas, postgraduate and masters and doctoral degrees. These qualifications are offered through the following faculties: * Faculty of Arts and Design * Faculty of Science * Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment * Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) * Faculty of Humanities * Faculty of Economics and Finance * Faculty of Management Sciences (including Business School)


Ranking

In 2010
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ranked the university the 15th best in South Africa and 5662th in the world. In 2018, the university ranked ninth best university in South Africa The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) ranks the university's Department of Journalism as one of twelve Potential Centres of Excellence in Journalism Training in Africa.http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001514/151496e.pdf


See also

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List of universities in South Africa This is a list of universities in South Africa. For the purposes of this list, colleges and universities are defined as accredited, degree-granting, tertiary institutions. As at September 2022, only South African public degree-granting instituti ...
* List of post secondary institutions in South Africa


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