• A full-house of experts in HIV and TB research united with postgraduate students in this field for a guest lecture, held at UKZN’s...read more
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Did you Know?

UKZN’s School of Information Systems and Technology was the first university in South Africa to introduce Podcasting as an educational tool.

UKZN was founded in 1910 – it is now 100 years old!

Spud author, John Van De Ruit, graduated from UKZN.

In 2010 there was a total of 41 626 students at UKZN, of this 32 791 were undergraduate & 8 835 were postgraduate.

UKZN has won the Daily News ‘Your choice award’ for the best University/College for the past seven years running.

Globally UKZN is one of only three South African universities in the top 500 Universities in the world.

UKZN is the third most productive University in terms of its research production.

The University employs over 5000 staff members.

UKZN has been home to many successful sportsman over the years, Tommy Bedford a former Springbok Rugby player, Shaun Pollock & Jonty Rhodes South African Cricketers.

Some high profile businessmen studied at UKZN, Sol Kerzner the developer of Lost city & more, Stephen Saad the CEO & founder of Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, Guy Brazier the regional leader of Deloitte & Alan Olivier the CEO of Grindrod Group.

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