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Tshwane University of Technology (TUT; ) is a 
The university occupies nine campuses: Pretoria main campus, arcadia campus, arts campus, Soshanguve south and Soshanguve north campus,
TUT application status
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)
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higher education
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institution in South Africa
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that came into being through a merger of three technikons A technikon was a post-secondary institute of technology (polytech) in South Africa.
It focused on career-oriented vocational training.
There were 15 technikons in the 1990s, but they were merged or restructured as universities (especially universi ...
— 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 South Africa
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Campuses
The university occupies nine campuses: Pretoria main campus, arcadia campus, arts campus, Soshanguve south and Soshanguve north campus, Ga-Rankuwa
Ga-Rankuwa is a large settlement located about 37 km north-west of Pretoria. Provincially it is in Gauteng province, but it used to fall in Bophuthatswana during the apartheid years, and under the North West province until the early 2000s. ...
campus, Witbank (eMalahleni campus), Mbombela
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(Nelspruit
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) and Polokwane
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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. Additional options exist in the form of advanced diplomas, postgraduate and masters and doctoral degrees. Students can track thTUT application status
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 2010Webometrics
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ranked the university the 15th best in South Africa
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and 5662th in the world. In 2018, the university ranked ninth best university in South Africa
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO
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) ranks the university's Department of Journalism as one of twelve Potential Centres of Excellence in Journalism Training in Africa
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See also
*List of universities in South Africa
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* List of post secondary institutions in South Africa
References
External links
Tshwane University of Technology
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