The Premier University of African Scholarship

Globally the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is one of three African universities in the top 500 according to the Shanghai Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU). The University is a multi-campus, residential, teaching and research university, based in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. UKZN is structured on a College model with four Colleges each comprising a number of Schools made up of cognate disciplines. The Colleges are: the College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, the College of Health Sciences, the College of Law and Management and the College of Humanities. The University has approximately 40 000 registered students and offers approximately 2000 academic programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

UKZN is rated as one of the top three universities in terms of its research output in South Africa and provides a dynamic environment for all facets of the research and innovation spectrum. Research studies span the natural, biomedical and social sciences and the humanities. The University has identified a number of strategic research focus areas where expertise has been made at a global level. These are: HIV/AIDS, TB and Health Promotion; Social Development and Economic Studies, Water, Environment and Biodiversity; Biotechnology, Agriculture and Food Security; Energy and Technology for Sustainable Development; Gender, Race and Identity Studies; Indigenous African Knowledge Systems and Maritime Studies.

Links with over 191 international institutions in 46 countries, facilitate ongoing collaborative academic partnerships and student exchange programmes.