The University of Pretoria (UP) celebrated its centenary in 2008, and ten years previously became the university with the highest research output in South Africa – and has kept that title ever since.

With six campuses and a number of other sites, such as the Pretoria Academic Hospital, UP accomodated more than 57 000 full time and distance learning students in 2008 – the largest residential university in South Africa. From its nine faculties and one business school (The Gordon Institue of Business Science), UP is able to offer more than 1800 academic programmes in two official languages.

According to national information collected in 2006, UP produced 17.8% of all Bachelor’s degrees conferred in the country, 16.6% of all professional bachelor’s degrees, 29.4% of all master’s degress, and 17.3% of all doctoral degrees.

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