Tshwane University Of Technology Ranking

Tshwane University Of Technology Ranking, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) was established on January 1 2004, when the former Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria merged.

The South African designation pertaining to institutions (“technikon”) was dropped in favour of the more internationally appropriate “university of technology”.

It is widely regarded as a “mega university” and is the largest residential higher education institution in South Africa, with an annual enrollment figure of 60,000. The Tshwane University of Technology is one of the most demographically diverse – in terms of both race and gender – in the country, reflecting post-Apartheid South Africa, which Desmond Tutu described as “the Rainbow Nation”.

Staff members employed by the Tshwane University of Technology come to 2,700, with approximately 855 permanent academics.

It has a presence in four of South Africa’s nine provinces: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and the Northwest Province, with campuses in Tshwane (Arcadia Campus, Arts Campus, Pretoria Campus, Ga-Rankuwa Campus and the North and South Campuses in Soshanguve), Mbombela, eMalahleni (previously called Witbank) and Polokwane (previously called Pietersburg).

There are also service points in Durban and Cape Town. Many students from other provinces and neighbouring countries attend TUT, including Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Swaziland. The faculty of science and the faculty of the arts have dedicated campuses in Pretoria city centre.

The department of performing arts owns the Breytenbach Theatre and uses it for training and productions for its students, with many performances open to the public.

Pretoria, where TUT has its main nucleus, is South Africa’s administrative centre known for its beautiful architecture, weighty history, prosperous leafy suburbs and streets lined with jacaranda trees.

 

Ranking

A new university ranking that focuses on academic performance has been released, ranking 18 South African universities among 2,500 institutes across the world.

The University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) differs from other widely published rankings by not precluding the lower-end of institutions, particularly in developing nations.

“Most ranking systems cover up to top 500 universities around the world, which mostly represents institutions located in developed countries.”

“Universities from other countries around the world also deserve and need to know where they stand among other institutions at global and national levels,” the group said.

The URAP ranking system’s focus is on academic quality. The group has gathered data about 2,500 Higher Education Institutes (HEI) in an effort to rank these organizations by their academic performance.

The overall score of each HEI is based upon its performance over several indicators, including current scientific productivity, research impact, research quality and international acceptance.

Data is gathered from Web of Science and other sources which provide lists of HEIs, the group said.

The data holds no big surprises for South Africa, naming the University of Cape Town as the top university in the country – followed by all the usual suspects: Wits, UKZN and Stellenbosch University.

However, the ranking includes 18 South African universities, overall, making it the most comprehensive global university ranking in the country to date.

These are the top universities in the country: