University of Pretoria#UPSpace

{{Rquote|left| The day might come when the Transvaal University College might mean to the Transvaal what Oxford University has meant to England. A long time might have to pass, and for a hundred years we might have to watch the grass growing on our lawns before that day arrives, but noble beginning has been made.| Jan Smuts,
at the laying of the Old Arts building's foundation stone{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9683&articleID=3506 |title=UP Archive News > University of Pretoria |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=29 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929022345/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9683&articleID=3506 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-02-18-eyeing-the-oxbridge-league|title=Eyeing the Oxbridge league|access-date=17 September 2009|work=mg.co.za|date=18 February 2008|archive-date=30 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080630093538/http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-02-18-eyeing-the-oxbridge-league|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6561|title=Old Arts Building|access-date=10 September 2009|archive-date=6 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606181108/https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6561|url-status=live}}

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The proposal for a university for the capital, first mooted in the Volksraad in 1889, was interrupted by the outbreak of the Anglo–Boer War in 1899. In 1896, the South African School of Mines was founded in Kimberley. Eight years later, in 1904, the school was moved to Johannesburg and was renamed the Transvaal Technical Institute. The school's name changed yet again in 1906 to Transvaal University College. In 1902, after the signing of the Peace of Vereeniging, the Normal College for teacher training was established in Groenkloof, Pretoria.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9792 |title=Overview University of Pretoria History > University of Pretoria |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401175118/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9792 |archive-date=1 April 2012 |url-status=dead }} On 4 March 1908, when the Transvaal University College (TUC) transferred its arts and science courses to its newly established Pretoria campus, the precursor to the university was established, initially offering courses in languages, sciences, and law.{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/475582/University-of-Pretoria |title=Universiteit Van Pretoria |publisher=Britannica.com |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604143656/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/475582/University-of-Pretoria |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://sajg.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/extract/111/2-3/141 |title=Special Edition in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Geology Department at the University of Pretoria |publisher=Sajg.geoscienceworld.org |date=1 September 2008 |access-date=29 September 2009 |archive-date=30 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090130034309/http://sajg.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/extract/111/2-3/141 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2&subid=2&ipklookid=2|title=History of the University of Pretoria|access-date=31 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101004552/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2&subid=2&ipklookid=2|archive-date=1 November 2009|url-status=dead}}

Instruction commenced with 32 students, 4 professors and 3 lecturers in the Kya Rosa, 270 Skinner Street a late Victorian residence purchased from Leo Weinthal the then owner of The Press (forerunner to the Pretoria News newspaper).{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/475582/University-of-Pretoria |title=University of Pretoria |access-date=29 September 2009 |archive-date=7 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507174715/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/475582/University-of-Pretoria |url-status=live }}{{cite web| url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2 | title= History of the University of Pretoria | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219224134/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2|archive-date=2012-02-19 |publisher=Britannica.com |access-date=12 January 2012}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0GG-ilj4rs4C&q=Leo+Weinthal+the+press+pretoria&pg=PA86|title=The Garrett papers By Fydell Edmund Garrett, Gerald Shaw|isbn=9780620082112|last1=Garrett|first1=Fydell Edmund|year=1984|publisher=Van Riebeeck Society, The |access-date=4 December 2021|archive-date=4 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204191247/https://books.google.com/books?id=0GG-ilj4rs4C&q=Leo+Weinthal+the+press+pretoria&pg=PA86|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6557|title=Kya Rosa|access-date=29 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606174336/https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6557|archive-date=6 June 2011|url-status=dead}} The first four professors were H. Th. Reinink (Dutch), J. Purves (Scottish), D.F. du Toit Malherbe (South African) and A.C. Paterson (Scottish), who would also become the first vice-chancellor.

In 1910, the colonial secretary, General Jan Smuts tabled the act constituting the university as a separate entity before the Transvaal Parliament, the "Transvaalse and Universiteits-Inlijvingswet" Law 1 of 1910. On 17 May 1910, the Johannesburg and Pretoria campuses separated, each becoming an independent institution. The Johannesburg campus being reincorporated as the South African School of Mines and Technology, while the Pretoria campus retained the name of Transvaal University College until 1930.{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=5056&subid=5056&ipklookid=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116090607/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=5056&subid=5056&ipklookid=1|archive-date=2014-11-16 |title=University of Pretoria Historic Overview|publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012}} The South African School of Mines and Technology would later go on to become the University of the Witwatersrand in 1922.{{cite web |url=http://web.wits.ac.za/PlacesOfInterest/Archives/UniversityArchives/History.htm |title=History of Wits |publisher=Web.wits.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=14 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314073054/http://web.wits.ac.za/PlacesOfInterest/Archives/UniversityArchives/History.htm |url-status=live }} In 1910, the TUC acquired its own campus in the east of Pretoria, what is now the western part of the university's main campus in Hatfield.{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/475582/University-of-Pretoria |title=University of Pretoria |publisher=Britannica.com |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604143656/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/475582/University-of-Pretoria |url-status=live }} On 3 August 1910, Governor-General Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone laid the cornerstone of the Old Arts Building, the first building to be built on the newly established Hatfield campus.{{cite web|url=http://tissuebank.co.za/sitefiles/file/1517/UP%20History%20Overview.doc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209041128/http://tissuebank.co.za/sitefiles/file/1517/UP%20History%20Overview.doc |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 February 2019 |title=University of Pretoria |access-date=18 September 2009 }} The building's striking Cape Dutch and Neo-Romanesque architectural style was recognised in 1968 when it was declared a provincial heritage site.{{cite web|url=https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6561|title=Old Arts Building|access-date=18 September 2009|archive-date=6 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606181108/https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6561|url-status=live}} During this time the colloquial name for the university, Tukkies or Tuks, was derived from the Afrikaans acronym for the college, i.e. Transvaalse Universiteitskollege (TUK).

The late 1910s and early 1920s saw the establishment of several faculties as the academic activities were expanded. Courses in agriculture (1917), theology (1918), economics and political science (1919), veterinary science (1920), and music (1923) were established as the institution grew.

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On 10 October 1930, the University of Pretoria Private Act, No. 13 of 1930 changed the name of the TUC to the University of Pretoria.{{cite web |url=http://www.artefacts.co.za/main/Buildings/style_det.php?styleid=368 |title=Pretoria School of Architecture |publisher=Artefacts.co.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=7 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407142330/http://www.artefacts.co.za/main/Buildings/style_det.php?styleid=368 |url-status=live }} The TUC originally established as an English-medium institution had evolved into the only fully bilingual university in South Africa and remained as such until the early 1930s. The rapid increase of Afrikaans-speaking students brought about an imbalance between the demographics of students and the languages of instruction. By 1931, although 65% of students were Afrikaans-speaking, 68% of the classes were conducted in English. In 1932, the University Council addressed the imbalance, deciding that Afrikaans would become the only medium of instruction. An increase in student numbers necessitated the building of new facilities such as the Club Hall and Administration Building (colloquially known as the ship) when the seventh faculty, the Medical Faculty, was established in 1943. This period further saw the establishment of numerous student activities such as the annual Spring Day event and intervarsity. Student publications established include the Trek in 1931, the first Rag Mag in 1936 and the weekly student newspaper Die Perdeby in 1939. The period of 1948–1982 is characterised by the substantial increase in numbers of an almost exclusively white student body and the concomitant physical growth of the university infrastructure. The nearly doubling of student numbers demanded the physical expansion of the Hatfield campus and new buildings were built in quick succession as the campus grew eastward. In the mid-1960s, the university urgently required additional land and acquired the adjacent property of Christian Brothers' College, Saint Gabriel's.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbcpretoria.co.za/index.cfm/p/pages.schools-s-history.htm |title=School's History |publisher=Cbcpretoria.co.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=27 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227103733/http://www.cbcpretoria.co.za/index.cfm/p/pages.schools-s-history.htm |url-status=live }} This property now forms the eastern section of the Hatfield campus.

In 1949, the university founded the Graduate School of Management (GSM),{{cite web|url=http://www.mba.co.za/school.aspx?rootid=7&schoolid=25&pageid=additional|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809003621/http://www.mba.co.za/school.aspx?rootid=7&schoolid=25&pageid=additional|archive-date=2007-08-09 |title=Wits Business School: Additional Information|quote= the GSM MBA was the first MBA programme to be launched outside North America|publisher=Mba.co.za |access-date=12 January 2012}}

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During the period of 1982 to 2008, the university transformed into a bilingual, multiracial and inclusive institution. The comparatively smooth introduction of students from all races formed the initial impetus for transformation and in 1989 the university was declared officially desegregated and opened for all races. In 1993, a policy document was introduced, aiming to position the university in a newly democratic South Africa. In 1994, the university regained its status as a bilingual university when a new language policy was adopted. However, in 2019 a new language policy was adopted which discontinued Afrikaans as a language of instruction in favour of English only.{{cite web|url=https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/409/ZP_Files/r31_16-language-policy.zp138060.pdf|title=University of Pretoria Language Policy|date=22 June 2016|website=University of Pretoria|access-date=13 June 2019|archive-date=11 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211213500/https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/409/ZP_Files/r31_16-language-policy.zp138060.pdf|url-status=live}}

In 1999, the only two veterinary science faculties in the country, those of the University of Pretoria and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, formerly Medunsa, were amalgamated. The university's Onderstepoort campus once again housed the only veterinary faculty in South Africa. In 2000, the Teachers Training College Pretoria, formerly the Normal College Pretoria founded in 1902, was incorporated into the university's Faculty of Education, which saw the faculty moving to the self-sufficient Groenkloof campus.

The university's business school in Illovo, Johannesburg, the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), was established in January 2000 following a substantial contribution by Sir Donald Gordon, the founder of Liberty Life and Liberty International, and a major investment by the University of Pretoria following discussions which started in 1998. The now defunct Vista University's Mamelodi campus was incorporated on 2 January 2004, as part of the restructuring of South African tertiary institutions.{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=82|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219224206/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=82|archive-date=2012-02-19 |title=Mamelodi > University of Pretoria |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012}} In 2011, GIBS opened a satellite campus on Pritchard Street in the inner city of Johannesburg.{{cite web |url=http://www.gibs.co.za |title=Gordon Institute of Business Science |publisher=Gibs.co.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=12 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112095357/http://gibs.co.za/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.donaldgordon.org/projects/gibs.htm|title=The Gordon Institute of Business Science|access-date=28 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909090943/http://www.donaldgordon.org/projects/gibs.htm|archive-date=9 September 2009|url-status=dead}} The Business school follows on the university's, now defunct Graduate School of Management's, long tradition of MBA tuition as the first business school outside North America and replaced it in January 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.gsm.up.ac.za/|title=Gordon Institute of Business Science, Pretoria|access-date=15 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215131109/http://www.gsm.up.ac.za/|archive-date=15 December 2009|url-status=dead}}

{{further|List of chancellors and vice-chancellors of the University of Pretoria}}

As set out in the [http://www.che.ac.za/documents/d000004/Higher_Education_Act.pdf Higher Education Act No 101 of 1997], the university is governed by the council with the vice-chancellor and principal, [https://www.up.ac.za/article/2749303/vice-chancellor-and-principal Professor Francis Petersen], the executive head responsible for the day-to-day administration, and the chancellor, Justice Sisi Khampempe, being the non-resident titular head of the university.{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=6 |title=Management & Governance |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816182206/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=6|archive-date=2014-08-16 |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2735543-university-of-pretoria-appoints-new-vice-chancellor-and-principal|title=University of Pretoria appoints new Vice-Chancellor and Principal|date=26 November 2018|publisher=University of Pretoria|access-date=13 June 2019|archive-date=21 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221114000/https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2735543-university-of-pretoria-appoints-new-vice-chancellor-and-principal|url-status=live}} The registrar is responsible for the academic administration of the university, as well as legal matters, and is secretary to the University Council and Senate.

The university's academic activities are divided into nine faculties and one business school. Whilst the faculties comprise 140 departments and 85 institutes, bureaus and centres.{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=1 |title=About UP |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025113851/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=1|archive-date=2014-10-25|publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012}}

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The university's main campus and central administration offices are situated in the suburb of Hatfield, Pretoria and houses six of the nine faculties.{{cite web |url=http://www.sarua.org/?q=uni_University%20of%20Pretoria |title=University of Pretoria |publisher=Sarua.org |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=20 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220002819/http://www.sarua.org/?q=uni_University%20of%20Pretoria |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.educations.com/University_of_Pretoria__b11259.html|title=University of Pretoria|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220131640/http://www.educations.com/University_of_Pretoria__b11259.html|archive-date=2012-02-20}} The campus, bordered by the suburb of Brooklyn to the south and Hatfield to the north, was built over {{Convert|24|ha|}} and has more than 60 buildings of historical value.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles/StudyInfo2010Jan20.pdf |title=Study Info 2010 |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=1 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401180457/http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles/StudyInfo2010Jan20.pdf |url-status=live }}

Adjacent to the Hatfield campus is the Hillcrest campus, which contains the High Performance Centre and LC de Villiers Sports Grounds, which were developed on {{Convert|76|ha|}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.up.ac.za/en/about-up/article/2500750/lc-de-villiers-sports-campus-high-performance-centre|title=Hillcrest Campus / High Performance Centre|access-date=23 April 2018|archive-date=23 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423155709/http://www.up.ac.za/en/about-up/article/2500750/lc-de-villiers-sports-campus-high-performance-centre|url-status=live}} Adjacent to the sport grounds is the university's experimental farm, which is used to conduct field experiments for the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2507 |title=Department of Plant Production and Soil Science Facilities |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=13 September 2010 |access-date=1 October 2009 |archive-date=17 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717035803/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2507 |url-status=live }} The campus is served by the Hatfield Gautrain station connecting Pretoria and Johannesburg. A university bus shuttle service operates between the Hatfield campus and the Groenkloof and Prinshof campuses, whilst a park-and-ride shuttle service operates between the Hatfield and Hillcrest campus.

The university's art collection consists primarily of paintings, sculptures and graphic works by South African artists including the likes of Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, Gregoire Boonzaier, William Kentridge and Sam Nhlengethwa. The collection also incorporates artworks by renowned international artists such as Max Pechstein, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann, George Grosz, Otto Mueller, Thomas Benton and Marc Chagall. The university's sculpture collection, the largest such collection in South Africa, contains sculptures by Sidney Kumalo, Maureen Quinn, Michael Teffo, Anton Smit, Anton van Wouw, Edoardo Villa and others.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10466&sub=1&parentid=5885&subid=10318&ipklookid=14 |title=University of Pretoria Art Collection |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=17 February 2010 |access-date=1 October 2009 |archive-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219225828/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10466&sub=1&parentid=5885&subid=10318&ipklookid=14 |url-status=live }}

The Old Arts Building was proclaimed a provincial heritage site in 1968{{cite web|url=https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6561|title=Old Arts Building|date=29 March 2010|access-date=10 September 2009|archive-date=6 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606181108/https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6561|url-status=live}} and houses the Van Tilburg Collection, Van Gybland-Oosterhoff Collection and Mapungubwe Collection. {{Rquote|right| What survives are the almost untouched remains of the palace sites and also the entire settlement area dependent upon them, as well as two earlier capital sites, the whole presenting an unrivalled picture of the development of social and political structures over some 400 years.| UNESCO,
on the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site{{cite web |url=http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/mapungubwe.htm |title=Mapungubwe: SA's lost city of gold |publisher=Southafrica.info |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=10 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110020519/http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/mapungubwe.htm |url-status=live }}}}The university is the custodian of the collection of artefacts found at the Mapungubwe National Park and World Heritage Site{{cite web |url=http://www.sanparks.org/parks/mapungubwe/ |title=Mapungubwe National Park and World Heritage Site |publisher=Sanparks.org |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=3 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503132628/http://sanparks.org/parks/mapungubwe/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1099 |title=Mapungubwe Cultural Landscapeand World Heritage Site |publisher=Whc.unesco.org |date=31 December 1932 |access-date=26 December 2019 |archive-date=21 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221093151/http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1099 |url-status=live }} and such display these artefacts in the Javett Art Centre.{{cite web |url=http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/worldheritagesites.htm |title=World heritage in South Africa |publisher=Southafrica.info |date=1 November 2007 |access-date=31 August 2009 |archive-date=20 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220150445/http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/worldheritagesites.htm |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=17 December 2021 |title=Gold artefacts on display at Javett Art Centre evidence of ancient African royalty, civilisation |url=https://javettup.art/news/gold-artefacts-on-display-at-javett-art-centre-evidence-of-ancient-african-royalty-civilisation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530092144/https://javettup.art/news/gold-artefacts-on-display-at-javett-art-centre-evidence-of-ancient-african-royalty-civilisation |archive-date=30 May 2023 |access-date=30 May 2023 |website=Javettup.art}} Gold ornaments, ivory, bone, ceramic-ware, clay figurines, trade beads, iron and copper artefacts are on permanent public display.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10664&sub=1&parentid=5885&subid=10318&ipklookid=14 |title=The Mapungubwe Collection |date=6 October 2009 |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219225813/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10664&sub=1&parentid=5885&subid=10318&ipklookid=14 |url-status=live }} The Van Gybland-Oosterhoff Collection is a ceramic collection, donated by Dr Horace Hugo Alexander van Gybland Oosterhoff and accepted by the university on 14 March 1939, is the largest collection of objects, publications, memorabilia and photographs of historical interest, relating to Dutch culture outside the Netherlands.{{cite web |url=http://www.tshwanetourism.co.za/activities/att_upac.php |title=University of Pretoria Art Collections |publisher=Tshwanetourism.co.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=1 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301054721/http://www.tshwanetourism.co.za/activities/att_upac.php |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.gotravel24.com/travelguides/pretoria/culture-scene |title=Wiki Travel Guides – Culture scene |work=GoTravel24 |publisher=Gotravel24.com |date=25 February 2011 |access-date=15 September 2009 |archive-date=2 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502142132/http://www.gotravel24.com/travelguides/pretoria/culture-scene |url-status=live }}

The Old Merensky Library houses the Edoardo Villa Museum, the home of the largest collection of sculptures by the Italian artist Edoardo Villa and one South Africa's most renowned sculptors, as well as sculptures by Anton van Wouw and the largest work by the artist Alexis Preller (3m x 13m) titled The Discovery.{{cite web|url=http://tissuebank.co.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10323&sub=1&parentid=5885&subid=10318&ipklookid=14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209024807/http://tissuebank.co.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10323&sub=1&parentid=5885&subid=10318&ipklookid=14 |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 February 2019 |title=Edoardo Villa Museum |access-date=1 October 2009 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=24805&page_tab=Bio_and_links |title=Edoardo Villa |publisher=Artnet.com |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=11 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090811054528/http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=24805&page_tab=Bio_and_links |url-status=live }}

Other art collections include the Christo Coetzee collection which was bequeathed to the university by the artist in 2001 and consists of more than 3000 objects, NKP Ceramics Collection, Hilgard Muller Collection, Mike Edwards Collection, Kruger Collection, Frans Esterhuizen Cartoon Collection, Baldinelli Trust Collection and Mimi Coertse Collection.

File:Mirage F1 on display University of Pretoria.jpg Mirage F1CZ donated to the university and assembled with the help of the South African Air Force Museum from AFB Swartkop, the Air Force Servicing Unit at the Waterkloof Air Force Base, Mirage specialists from Aerosud, Lona Construction and Intermine Agencies. The Mirage F1 was assembled in order to promote science and technology at the University of Pretoria.{{cite web |url=https://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2843&ArticleID=4590 |title=News & Events > University of Pretoria |access-date=22 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224114611/https://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2843&ArticleID=4590 |archive-date=24 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}]]

The university's Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Discovery Centre, Sci-Enza, was officially launched in 1977.{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2064&subid=2064&ipklookid=11|title=About us|publisher=University of Pretoria|access-date=2 November 2009|archive-date=17 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717205857/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2064&subid=2064&ipklookid=11|url-status=live}} The Discovery Centre is an umbrella complex where young children, students and adults can explore the world of science, engineering and technology in a "play-as-you-learn" way. Activities at the Centre museum include: a digital planetarium; exploratorium; camera obscura;{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2096&subid=2096&ipklookid=11 |title=Camera Obscura |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=21 February 2011 |access-date=1 October 2009 |archive-date=17 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717133714/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2096&subid=2096&ipklookid=11 |url-status=live }} biological science exhibit; botanical garden{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=3525 |title=Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=8 February 2011 |access-date=1 October 2009 |archive-date=17 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117014114/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=3525 |url-status=live }} and indigenous technology exhibit.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10319 |title=Mapungubwe Museum |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=17 February 2010 |access-date=31 August 2009 |archive-date=1 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401181921/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10319 |url-status=live }}

File:Willem Lodewyk, Etching by Jacobus Houbraken 570004.jpg|{{center|Willem Lodewijk, etching done by Jacobus Houbraken, published by Isaac Tirion, 1752. Forming part of the van Gybland-Oosterhoff Collection}}

File:University of pretoria equine sculpture.jpg|{{center|Equine sculpture by Danie de Jager, Lc de Villiers Sports grounds{{Cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=8903&subid=8903 |title=Alumni honoured with Laureate Award > University of Pretoria |access-date=1 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401175059/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=8903&subid=8903 |archive-date=1 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}}}

File:Mapungubwe, Limpopo, South Africa (20356187550).jpg|{{center|The gold rhino statuete in the Mapungubwe Museum}}

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The main hall and site of ceremonies, the Aula, was designed by Karel Jooste and completed in 1958. The Aula was the first opera house to be built in the capital and remained the major venue in the city until the State Theatre's completion in the early 1980s.{{cite web|url=http://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6795|title=Aula & Rautenbach Hall|access-date=24 April 2010|archive-date=23 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123125711/http://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6795|url-status=live}} The 1012-seat auditorium{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles/file/5885/Aula%20Theatre%20Specifications.pdf|title=Aula Theatre Specifications|access-date=12 January 2012|archive-date=1 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401175245/http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles/file/5885/Aula%20Theatre%20Specifications.pdf|url-status=live}} has played host to foreign dignitaries, presidents{{cite web |url=http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2007/07012516151004.htm |title=Media programme for state visit to South Africa by Chinese President Hu Jintao |date=25 January 2007 |publisher=Info.gov.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=13 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313131607/http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2007/07012516151004.htm |url-status=live }} and local and international artists.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10472&subid=10472 |title=Lunch hour concerts |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=9 February 2011 |access-date=24 April 2010 |archive-date=24 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224163216/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10472&subid=10472 |url-status=live }} The main music complex, comprising the 500-seat Musaion and 3000-seat Amphitheatre, was built between 1960 and 1964.{{cite web|url=https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/565/2020/infoguide-2020-final-20.11.2019.zp183038.pdf|title=InfoGuide 2020|publisher=up.ac.za|access-date=28 April 2020|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924093717/https://www.up.ac.za/media/shared/565/2020/infoguide-2020-final-20.11.2019.zp183038.pdf|url-status=live}} The University Chapel, formally the Church of Saint Alfons Maria de Liguori, and the accompanying monastery, was built in 1925 and was bought from the Catholic Church in 1980. Saint Alfons, who was canonised in 1839, was the founder of the order of Ligournians (or Redemptorists), an order founded in 1732 in Naples, Italy and dedicated to helping underprivileged communities.{{cite web|url=https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6560|title=Chapel (Old Monastery)|access-date=18 September 2009}}

The possibility of training veterinarians in South Africa was frequently raised after the first Colonial Veterinary Surgeon in South Africa was appointed in approximately 1874, but it was not until 1920 that the Swiss-born veterinarian, Sir Arnold Theiler, was appointed as Director of Veterinary Education and Research at Onderstepoort under the supervision of the then Transvaal University College. New facilities were inaugurated at the end of 1921 and the first residence was opened in 1924. The first eight South African trained veterinarians qualified in 1924.

The Faculty of Veterinary Sciences was developed on the {{Convert|65|ha|}} Onderstepoort campus, with buildings covering a total of {{Convert|55000|m2|}} {{Convert|30|km|}} north-west of the Hatfield campus and {{Convert|15|km|}} north of the Pretoria city center. The Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital provides clinical services rendered with full student participation as part of the primary teaching mission of the Faculty of Veterinary Science.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=1136&subid=1136&ipklookid=13 |title=Faculty Facilities |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=7 April 2011 |access-date=12 June 2010 |archive-date=17 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117214659/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=1136&subid=1136&ipklookid=13 |url-status=live }} It is the only faculty in South Africa educating veterinarians and veterinary nurses.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=1127&subid=1127&ipklookid=13 |title=Faculty of Veterinary Science About us |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=25 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117214509/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=1127&subid=1127&ipklookid=13 |archive-date=17 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.thsinfo.co.za/20080612_websiteONDERSTEPOORT.doc|title=The Faculty of Veterinary Science|access-date=29 September 2009|archive-date=13 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613205934/http://www.thsinfo.co.za/20080612_websiteONDERSTEPOORT.doc|url-status=live}}

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During the Conference of Teachers in Town and Refugee Camp Schools of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony of 1–10 July 1902, a resolution was passed to establish "Normal Schools" for the education of teachers in Johannesburg and Pretoria. The Pretoria Normal School, was first established in a house in 126 Rissik Street. In 1903 the Johannesburg Normal School's 40 students were transferred to Pretoria when it was closed and the Pretoria and Johannesburg institutions were merged to form the Transvaal Normal College. When the Transvaal University College was established in 1908 the first students include students from the Transvaal Normal College. In 1909 the school was renamed the Pretoria Normal College when new teacher training facilities were established in Heidelberg and Johannesburg. In 1954 the school was again renamed to the Onderwyskollege van Pretoria (English: Teachers College Pretoria). In 1974 the University of Pretoria took over the sole responsibility for training secondary teacher from the Teachers College Pretoria.

Although the Teachers College Pretoria purchased new college grounds in Groenkloof during 1975, the college only occupied the new grounds in 1988 and was inaugurated in 1989. The Johannesburg {{Langx|af|Goudstadse Onderwyskollege|lit=Gold-city Teachers College|label=none}}, Transvaal College of Education, Laudium and the Transvaal Education College Soshanguve amalgamate and move their operations to the Teachers College Pretoria in 1993 and the latter two in 1998 respectively. In 2000 the Teachers Training College Pretoria was incorporated into the university's Faculty of Education, which saw the faculty moving from the main Hatfield campus to the self-sufficient Groenkloof campus.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=43&subid=43&ipklookid=6&parentid= |title=Welcome to the Faculty of Education |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219224236/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=43&subid=43&ipklookid=6&parentid= |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ais.up.ac.za/edu/docs/HistoryEduLib.pdf|title=A Chronological History|access-date=12 January 2012|archive-date=20 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420235637/http://www.ais.up.ac.za/edu/docs/HistoryEduLib.pdf|url-status=live}}

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Students in the Faculty of Health Sciences are taught at the Prinshof campus, adjoining the Steve Biko Hospital (formerly Pretoria Academic Hospital and HF Verwoerd Hospital), the main healthcare training facility of the university, and the Tshwane District Hospital.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=1268&subid=1268 |title=Faculty of Health Sciences Initiatives |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=22 July 2010 |access-date=29 September 2009 |archive-date=17 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717035936/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=1268&subid=1268 |url-status=live }} Additional healthcare training facilities include the Kalafong Hospital on the western outskirts of Pretoria in the suburb of Atteridgeville, the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital west of the city centre and built on the site of the old Pretoria botanical gardens and Tembisa Hospital south of Pretoria in the East Rand, Johannesburg.

The university's business school, the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) purpose-designed by the architect and urban designer Henri Comrie, is situated along Illovo Boulevard, a mixed-use commercial precinct between the suburbs of Rosebank and Sandton in Johannesburg,{{cite web |url=http://www.illovoboulevard.com/about.php |title=About the Ilovo Boulevard |publisher=Illovoboulevard.com |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523164602/http://www.illovoboulevard.com/about.php |archive-date=23 May 2010 |url-status=dead }} with a satellite Inner City campus on Pritchard Street.{{cite web |url=http://www.gibs.co.za/about-us/na_5/inner-city-campus.aspx |title=Inner City Campus |publisher=Gibs.co.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104213444/http://gibs.co.za/about-us/na_5/inner-city-campus.aspx |archive-date=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead }} The Illovo campus is served by the Rosebank Gautrain station, with a nearby Gautrain bus stop and the inner city campus by the Johannesburg Park Station. GIBS Europe operates out of London, United Kingdom offering company specific programmes.

The Witbank and Hammanskraal satellite campuses, were established in 1988 and 1994 respectively and are used as additional practical facilities and for community engagement.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=5056 |title=University of Pretoria Historic Overview |date=14 March 2008 |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219221631/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=5056 |url-status=live }} The now defunct Vista University's Mamelodi campus was incorporated on 2 January 2004, as part of the restructuring of South African tertiary institutions. The Mamelodi campus hosts the extended BSc degree programme and functions as the community engagement hub for the university.{{cite web |url=http://matric.mg.co.za/university-of-pretoria/ |title=University of Pretoria 29 December 2011 |publisher=Matric.mg.co.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=7 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407043308/http://matric.mg.co.za/university-of-pretoria/ |url-status=live }}

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{{see also|University of Pretoria Library Services|University of Pretoria Special Collections|}}

{{Rquote|right| "This country has given me so much that I am only too happy to be allowed to help it to develop and to be able to give back to it a fraction of what it has given to me".| Hans Merensky
at the opening of the Merensky Library ".{{cite web |url=https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6526 |title=UPSpace at the University of Pretoria: Old Merensky Library |access-date=18 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108154634/http://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6526 |archive-date=8 November 2009 |url-status=dead }} }}

In 1933, the university decided that the library collection necessitated the building of a new library building, the collection which at that time was kept in the Old Arts building. The library was designed by the South African architect Gerard Moerdijk, following a donation of £10,000 (£{{Inflation|index=UK|value=10000|start_year=1933|end_year=2023|fmt=c}} as of 2023) from mining geologist Hans Merensky and construction started in 1937.{{cite web|url=https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6526|title=Old Merensky Library|access-date=18 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108154634/http://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/6526|archive-date=8 November 2009|url-status=dead}} Drawing from his inspiration from Persia and Africa, the design of the building incorporates several architectural styles including Art Deco, Neo-Classicism, Arts and Crafts, Cape Dutch and Regency. The Old Merensky Library was proclaimed a provincial heritage site in 1991.{{cite web|url=http://www.friedlandart.com/edoardovillamuseum.html|title=Old Merensky Library|access-date=29 March 2010|archive-date=24 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524072432/http://friedlandart.com/edoardovillamuseum.html|url-status=live}}

Despite expansions to the Old Merensky Library in 1957, the library subsequently became insufficient to meet the growing needs of the institution and in 1975 the Merensky Library II was completed, currently housing 7 of 9 the faculty libraries.{{cite web |url=http://www.library.up.ac.za/aboutus/history.htm |title=Historical Background |publisher=Library.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=27 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227080922/http://www.library.up.ac.za/aboutus/history.htm |url-status=live }} Besides the main Merensky Library complex, the university library system also includes the separately administered Jotello F Soga Library (Veterinary Science), Oliver R Tambo Law Library, Education Library, Mamelodi Library, Dentistry Library and Health Sciences Library.{{cite web |url=http://www.library.up.ac.za/aboutus/index.htm |title=About Us |publisher=Library.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=13 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213055312/http://www.library.up.ac.za/aboutus/index.htm |url-status=live }}

The Oliver R Tambo Law Library houses the Faculty of Law's collection of legal materials and the Law of Africa collection in the library is the single most comprehensive and current collection of primary legal materials of African countries.{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=15428&subid=15428&ipklookid=10|title=About the ICLA|access-date=27 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930141449/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=15428&subid=15428&ipklookid=10|archive-date=30 September 2012|url-status=dead}}

In 1974 the Jotello F Soga Library of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the Onderstepoort campus was established and is named in honour of the first South African to qualify as a veterinary surgeon, Dr Jotello Festiri Soga.{{cite web |url=http://www.library.up.ac.za/vet/about.htm#overview |title=out the Library |publisher=Library.up.ac.za |date=5 May 2009 |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-date=12 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512161510/http://www.library.up.ac.za/vet/about.htm#overview |url-status=live }}

In 2006 the university established UPSpace, its own open access digital research repository.{{cite web|url=https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/|title=UPSpace|access-date=2 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903010526/http://www.up.ac.za/dspace/|archive-date=3 September 2009|url-status=dead}} and the university's library has since become one of 27 partners in the World Digital Library project.{{cite web |url=http://www.wdl.org/en/about/partners.html |title=About the World Digital Library: Partners |access-date=21 April 2009 |archive-date=7 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007051426/http://www.wdl.org/en/about/partners.html |url-status=live }}

In 1978 the first task group responsible for the investigation in creating an archive system for the University of Pretoria was chaired by Prof. A.N. Pelzer (Vice-rector). Due to the death of Prof. Pelzer in 1981 the project stalled, but by 1994 the need for a central archive system was again recognised by the acting Registrar, Prof. C.R. de Beer. The archives were finally established by 13 September 1994 by the Management of the university and this date is considered as the founding date of the archives of the University of Pretoria.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9681&language=0 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616084535/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9681&language=0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 June 2013 |title=Founding |access-date=8 May 2013 }}

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The university's achievements and performance in research locally and internationally, including its collaboration and cooperation with the private sector, industry, science councils, foundations and NGOs, the large number of graduates that it produces (particularly doctoral and other postgraduate students) as well as scientists and engineers{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=942&subid=942&ipklookid=7 |title=Message from the Dean, Prof Roelf Sandenbergh |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=8 November 2010 |access-date=17 September 2009 |archive-date=7 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907065425/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=942&subid=942&ipklookid=7 |url-status=live }} and its focus on innovation,{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2843&ArticleID=22 |title=Ready to face the future and inspire a generation |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=17 May 2007 |access-date=17 September 2009 |archive-date=14 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614005001/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2843&articleID=22 |url-status=live }} contribute directly towards enhancing the South Africa's competitiveness.{{cite web |url=http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-02-18-eyeing-the-oxbridge-league |title=Eyeing the Oxbridge league |date=18 February 2008 |publisher=mg.co.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=16 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516005154/http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-02-18-eyeing-the-oxbridge-league |url-status=live }} A 2010 report by Centre for Higher Education Transformation identified the university as a top research-intensive university in South Africa.{{cite news |first=Karen |last=McGregor |title=SOUTH AFRICA: New university clusters emerge |url=http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20100523104119724 |work=University World News |date=23 May 2010 |access-date=25 November 2010 |archive-date=28 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128125624/http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20100523104119724 |url-status=live }} The university is member of the CDIO Initiative, an international engineering education collaboration.{{cite web |url=http://www.engsc.ac.uk/er/cdio/index.asp |title=CDIO |publisher=Engsc.ac.uk |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=24 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090824202313/http://www.engsc.ac.uk/er/cdio/index.asp |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.cdio.org/implementing-cdio-your-institution/collaboration |title=CDIO |publisher=Cdio.org |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=5 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305103524/http://www.cdio.org/implementing-cdio-your-institution/collaboration |url-status=live }}

{{Main|Southern Education and Research Alliance}}

The strategic alliance formed in 1999 between the University of Pretoria and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has been abandoned for unpublished reasons.{{cite web |url=http://www.seralliance.com/pdfs/sera_annual_review_2002.pdf |title=Highlights and Achievements |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224151730/http://www.seralliance.com/pdfs/sera_annual_review_2002.pdf |archive-date=24 February 2012 |url-status=dead }} This alliance, which was known as the Southern Education and Research Alliance{{cite web|url=http://www.seralliance.com/|title=SERA – Southern Education and Research Alliance|access-date=5 January 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051221095821/http://www.seralliance.com/|archive-date=21 December 2005|url-status=dead}} (SERA), collaborated locally and internationally with universities, NGOs, companies and multinational bodies in various research areas.{{cite web |url=http://www.seralliance.com/pdfs/sera_relationships.pdf |title=SERA Relationships and Links |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224151838/http://www.seralliance.com/pdfs/sera_relationships.pdf |archive-date=24 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}

Notable research includes:

• Centre for Human Rights
• Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)
• African Centre for Genome Technologies
• Department of Zoology & Entomology{{cite web |url=https://www.urapcenter.org/Rankings/2019-2020/2020-Zoology |title=Global Top 50 in Zoology – University Ranking by Academic Performance |access-date=25 June 2021 |archive-date=25 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625123444/https://www.urapcenter.org/Rankings/2019-2020/2020-Zoology |url-status=live }}

UPeTD (University of Pretoria electronic theses and dissertations) was launched in July 2000 and forms part of the university's open scholarship programme.{{cite web |last1=Hammes |first1=Monica |title=UPeTD: It's the start of your publishing career |url=https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/1790/index.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |website=Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |access-date=19 November 2021 |archive-date=19 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119053351/https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/1790/index.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |url-status=live }} In August 2021, the Webometrics World Ranking of Institutional Repositories, UPSpace is ranked 130th Internationally, 2nd in Africa and 1st in South Africa.{{cite web|title=TRANSPARENT RANKING: Institutional Repositories by Google Scholar (August 2021) {{!}} Ranking Web of Repositories|url=https://repositories.webometrics.info/en/node/32|access-date=2021-11-18|website=repositories.webometrics.info|archive-date=2 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102142340/https://repositories.webometrics.info/en/node/32|url-status=live}} The records in UPeTD were migrated to the UPSpace institutional repository in August 2014, and UPeTD was subsequently discontinued.

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[https://repository.up.ac.za/ UPSpace] (Institutional research repository of the University of Pretoria) is the name of the open access digital institutional repository of the University of Pretoria, established as a means for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.{{cite journal|author-link=Clifford A. Lynch |last=Lynch |first=Clifford A. |date=February 2003 |url=http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html |title=Institutional repositories: essential infrastructure for scholarship in the digital age |journal=ARL |volume=226 |access-date=20 October 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041012054551/http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html |archive-date=12 October 2004 }} UPSpace contains a collection of the intellectual and research output produced by past and current researchers of the University of Pretoria. The spectrum of material covered includes the following: historical or archival material, research articles, popular research material, unpublished research, inaugural addresses, conference proceedings, technical reports and open lectures.{{cite web|title=UPSpace ranked the top repository in Africa|url=https://www.up.ac.za/department-of-library-services/news/post_2409648-upspace-ranked-the-top-repository-in-africa|website=up.ac.za|access-date=4 December 2021|archive-date=31 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031101927/https://www.up.ac.za/department-of-library-services/news/post_2409648-upspace-ranked-the-top-repository-in-africa|url-status=live}}

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| ARWU_W = 401–500 | ARWU_W_year = 2023 | ARWU_W_ref = {{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/university-of-pretoria|title=ARWU World University Rankings 2023 |website=www.shanghairanking.com|access-date=24 February 2024}}

| QS_W = =323 | QS_W_year = 2024 | QS_W_ref = {{cite web |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-pretoria |title=University of Pretoria |work=Top Universities |date=2024 |access-date=3 March 2024}}

| THE_W = 501–600 | THE_W_year = 2024 | THE_W_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-pretoria|title=Pretoria University |work=Times Higher Education World University Rankings |access-date=3 March 2024}}

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;League table rankings

{{see also|Rankings of universities in South Africa|Rankings of business schools in South Africa}}

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The QS World University Rankings ranks the university as follows:{{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-pretoria|title=UP|website=QS World University Rankings|access-date=23 April 2018|archive-date=23 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423234453/https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-pretoria|url-status=live}}

In January 2011 Webometrics ranked the university as the 2nd in South Africa and Africa.{{cite web|url=http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=africa |title=Top Africa |access-date=15 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004092257/http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=africa |archive-date=4 October 2009 }}

In January 2015 Webometrics ranked the university as the 3rd in South Africa and 4th Africa.{{cite web|url=http://webometrics.info/en/Africa|title=Africa|work=webometrics.info|access-date=18 September 2015|archive-date=5 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905160943/http://webometrics.info/en/Africa|url-status=live}}

In July 2015 Webometrics ranked the university as the 4th in South Africa and Africa.

GIBS again ranks in the top 100 – UK Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2019.{{cite web|title=GIBS again ranks in the top 100 – UK Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2019|url=https://www.gibs.co.za/news-events/news/Pages/GIBS-again-ranks-in-the-top-100---UK-Financial-Times-Executive-MBA-Ranking-2019.aspx|website=gibs.co.za|access-date=4 December 2021|archive-date=23 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123061839/https://www.gibs.co.za/news-events/news/Pages/GIBS-again-ranks-in-the-top-100---UK-Financial-Times-Executive-MBA-Ranking-2019.aspx|url-status=live}}

Kya Rosa, b, Tuks-hoofingang.jpg|{{center|Kya Rosa, the original building of the Transvaal University College}}

University of Pretoria Student Council.jpg|{{center|The first student council in 1909}}

University of Pretoria RAG.jpg|{{center|Rag festivities in Church Square in 1910}}

University of Pretoria Welcoming day.jpg|{{center|Welcoming day for first years in 1929}}

University of Pretoria mascot - Oom Gert.jpg|{{center|The university's mascot, Oom Gert in 1939}}

Residence is provided to students in 24 undergraduate and postgraduate residences and 3 postgraduate-only residences spread over the university's campuses.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=113&subid=113&ipklookid=1 |title=The choice is yours – Residences |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=25 November 2011 |access-date=25 April 2011 |archive-date=5 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705195900/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=113&subid=113&ipklookid=1 |url-status=live }} The first students of the Transvaal University College resided in the Kya Rosa, a Victorian house in Skinner Street. In 1915, the first male residence, Kollegetehuis, was constructed on the Hatfield campus{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/res.asp?ipkCategoryID=5194&sub=0&parentid=20&subid=113&ipklookid=1 |title=The Republic of Kollegetehuis |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=30 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930025407/http://web.up.ac.za/res.asp?ipkCategoryID=5194&sub=0&parentid=20&subid=113&ipklookid=1 |url-status=live }} and the first female residence, Asterhof, in 1925.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/res.asp?ipkCategoryID=10151&subid=10151&ipklookid=40 |title=About Asterhof |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=30 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930025602/http://web.up.ac.za/res.asp?ipkCategoryID=10151&subid=10151&ipklookid=40 |url-status=live }} Students not living in a university residence can join one of four Day Houses ( [https://www.up.ac.za/docendo Docendo], [https://www.up.ac.za/dregeana-day-house Dregeana], [https://www.up.ac.za/luminous Luminous], and [https://www.up.ac.za/vividus-ladies Vividus Ladies]) which gives them the opportunity to partake in organised student life activities.{{cite web|title=Day Houses|url=https://www.up.ac.za/day-houses|access-date=18 October 2020|publisher=Web.up.ac.za|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025080810/https://www.up.ac.za/day-houses|url-status=live}}

More than 100 student clubs and organisations operate on the university campus.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=13670&subid=13670&ipklookid=15 |title=Societies |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=1 June 2011 |access-date=17 January 2011 |archive-date=5 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705072321/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=13670&subid=13670&ipklookid=15 |url-status=live }} These include numerous student government, service providers, and service organisations. The most prominent amongst these are the Student Parliament, Student Representative Council, and Constitutional Tribunal (Student Court). The Student Parliament is the plenary body of student governance and determines the wider mandate for student governance. The Student Representative Council (SRC) is the executive body of student governance and subsequently charters and provides most of the funding for other student groups, and represents students' interests when dealing with the administration. The SRC is the residential student government, specialising in programming, policy, and facilities and services. Societies are registered in the following categories as catering for religious, political, social, cultural, academic and other. The Constitutional Tribunal is the judicial body of student governance and adjudicates disputes primarily between student organisations. Its judges sit on the panel of student disciplinary hearings. The various service providers are the university's primary programming organisations, serving as a centre of social, cultural, intellectual and recreational life.

The university has a long tradition of student activities and traditions. It is common belief that if a blossom from a Jacaranda tree falls on your head, you will do well in the end-of-year exams.{{cite web |url=http://gopretoria.co.za/the-jacaranda-city |title=The Jacaranda City |publisher=Gopretoria.co.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=25 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125215222/http://gopretoria.co.za/the-jacaranda-city |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.friendsaccsa.com/jacaranda.html |title=Jacaranda (Jacaranda acutifolia |publisher=Friendsaccsa.com |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=5 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305114842/http://www.friendsaccsa.com/jacaranda.html |url-status=live }} Other traditions and customs vary by residence, day house and faculty.

The university started the tradition of Rag (student society) (Afrikaans: Jool), a student-run charitable fundraising organisation, in South Africa in 1925.http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-174603121.html {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} During Rag, students take to the streets in a parade of floats whilst collecting money for charity.

The university's Springday celebrations are a declared university holiday and are held annually on the second Wednesday of September.{{cite web|url=http://www.up.ac.za/calendars/2010calendar.pdf|title=Main Calendar dates|access-date=12 January 2012|archive-date=5 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305093629/http://www.up.ac.za/calendars/2010calendar.pdf|url-status=live}}

Students' song and dance competitions include Insync (formerly Ienkmelodienk),{{cite web|url=http://perdeby.co.za/sections/news/tuks-news/5225-ienkmelodienk-becomes-insync|title=Ienkmelodienk becomes Insync|work=E-max |date=14 November 2016|access-date=23 April 2018|archive-date=24 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424135221/http://perdeby.co.za/sections/news/tuks-news/5225-ienkmelodienk-becomes-insync|url-status=live |last1=Pundit |first1=Pooja }} Serenade and Serrie. In addition, the university's Drama Department hosts the annual week-long Krêkvars Arts Festival each July in the intimate Bok, Lier and Masker theatres on Hatfield campus. The festival has transformed from an event started in 2000 and centred around the drama honours students' directing course to an open festival where other students and the public at large are encouraged to put on productions.{{cite web |url=http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&news_id=3609&cause_id=1270 |title=Krekvars: 50 Different Shows Stretch Tuk's Drama Students |publisher=Litnet.co.za |date=4 October 2006 |access-date=8 August 2010 |archive-date=27 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927162047/http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&news_id=3609&cause_id=1270 |url-status=live }}

The amphitheatre hosts the annual Insync song and dance competition between the first years of the various residences and day houses in January.{{cite web |url=http://www.perdeby.co.za/an-ienkmelodienk-to-remember/ |title=An Ienkmelodienk to remember |publisher=Perdeby.co.za |date=4 February 2010 |access-date=8 August 2010 |archive-date=29 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329070856/http://www.perdeby.co.za/an-ienkmelodienk-to-remember/ |url-status=live }} The annual Serenade and Serrie singing competitions between the residences and day houses are held in the Musaion and Aula theatres in July/August and April/May respectively. The winners of the Serenade competition go on to represent the university at the National Serenade competition.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2843&ArticleID=83 |title=Serenade 2007 – Life is but a song! |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=30 July 2007 |access-date=8 August 2010 |archive-date=1 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401181241/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2843&ArticleID=83 |url-status=live }}

The university maintains the: UP Symphony Orchestra (UPSO), the only comprehensive student orchestra in Pretoria frequently performing symphonic repertoires,{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9151&sub=1&parentid=7677&subid=7678&ipklookid=15|title=Orchestras|access-date=1 October 2009|archive-date=5 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705094924/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9151&sub=1&parentid=7677&subid=7678&ipklookid=15|url-status=live}} UP Chorale, UP Brass Band, Tuks Camerata,{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9150&sub=1&parentid=7677&subid=7678&ipklookid=15 |title=Choirs |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=2 March 1998 |access-date=1 October 2009 |archive-date=5 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705095007/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9150&sub=1&parentid=7677&subid=7678&ipklookid=15 |url-status=live }} UP Children's choir, UP Concert choir and the UP Youth choir. The university supports, and has been host to the annual National Youth Orchestra course for a number of years.{{cite web| url=http://www.sanyo.org.za/about-us/history/| title=South African National Youth Orchestra Foundation – History| date=4 March 2009| access-date=20 March 2010| archive-date=5 March 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305043711/http://www.sanyo.org.za/about-us/history/| url-status=live}}

In addition to cultural activities, students participate in several other non-cultural activities. The university organises the annual SAE International sanctioned student automotive engineering Baja SAE competition in South Africa sponsored by Sasol.{{cite web|url=http://www.tuksbaja.co.za|title=Tuks Baja|access-date=17 October 2009|archive-date=28 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228081035/http://www.tuksbaja.co.za/|url-status=live}} Baja SAE is an intercollegiate and interuniversity design competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) where teams of engineering students design, build and race small off-road cars.

Oom Gert (translates affectionately to Uncle Gert, from Dutch and Afrikaans) has been the official university mascot since 1929 and has been the object of perennial attempted kidnappings.{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/pdfs/9426_Oom%20Gert%2592s%20new%20home.pdf|title=Oom Gert's new home|access-date=13 May 2012|archive-date=30 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030091337/http://web.up.ac.za/pdfs/9426_Oom%20Gert%2592s%20new%20home.pdf|url-status=live}}

The Perdeby ({{Lit|}} The Wasp), the official university newspaper, was founded in 1939{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9792 |title=University of Pretoria Historical Overview |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401175118/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9792 |archive-date=1 April 2012 |url-status=dead }} and has a readership of approximately 30 000.{{cite web |url=http://www.veldfiremedia.com/index.php/pretoria-university-student-newspaper-perdeby |title=Perdeby |publisher=Veldfiremedia.com |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=25 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225062254/http://veldfiremedia.com/index.php/pretoria-university-student-newspaper-perdeby |url-status=live }} Tuks FM (107.2 FM), the campus radio station, was established on 9 February 1981 and is hosted by university students and broadcast to the Northern Gauteng area.{{cite web |url=http://www.tuksfm.co.za/Custom/history.html |title=History |publisher=Tuksfm.co.za |date=11 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102051023/http://www.tuksfm.co.za/Custom/history.html |archive-date=2 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}

Civic service and outreach programmes are performed in the fields in which the university has proven competencies. These fields include professional associations, business and management and are performed in underdeveloped or developing communities.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9758&subid=9758&ipklookid=2 |title=More about the Department of Community Engagement |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=15 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215122052/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9758&subid=9758&ipklookid=2 |url-status=live }}

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{{main|University of Pretoria F.C.}}

{{see also|Varsity Rugby|Varsity Sports (South Africa)}}

The university maintains a long tradition of student participation in sport and recreation. The university has 30 registered sport clubs and 10 academies, in which 9 000 students annually participate in on a competitive and recreational level, more than 1 000 volunteers are involved in sport in various designations and capacities. In 2007, the university produced 93 Senior Proteas and Springboks and 4 South Africa national rugby union team (Springbok) Captains.{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/UserFiles/100Eeufeesboek.pdf|title=Centenary|access-date=12 January 2012|archive-date=1 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401181126/http://web.up.ac.za/UserFiles/100Eeufeesboek.pdf|url-status=live}} The university's sports facilities, on the Hillcrest campus, include the LC de Villiers Sports Grounds and the High Performance Centre (HPC), situated at an altitude of approximately {{Convert|1500|m|}} above sea level, were developed on an area of {{Convert|760000|m2|}}.{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=4881&subid=4881&ipklookid=14|title=About Us|access-date=1 October 2009|archive-date=27 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927205911/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=4881&subid=4881&ipklookid=14|url-status=live}}

The HPC, which was established in 2002, has become the favoured location for the pre-departure camps of Team South Africa in addition to being chosen by several national and international federations as their preferred specialisation centre.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=4916&subid=4916&ipklookid=14 |title=Sport Facilities |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=29 August 2011 |access-date=1 October 2009 |archive-date=20 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120054207/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=4916&subid=4916&ipklookid=14 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=4881&subid=4881&ipklookid=14|title=About Us|publisher=Web.up.ac.za|date=29 August 2011|access-date=1 October 2009|archive-date=27 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927205911/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=4881&subid=4881&ipklookid=14|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.goal.com/en/news/1863/world-cup-2010/2010/06/07/1963066/world-cup-2010-party-atmosphere-as-argentina-train-in |title=World Cup 2010: Party Atmosphere As Argentina Train In Pretoria |publisher=Goal.com |date=7 June 2010 |access-date=11 June 2010 |archive-date=11 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611100009/http://www.goal.com/en/news/1863/world-cup-2010/2010/06/07/1963066/world-cup-2010-party-atmosphere-as-argentina-train-in |url-status=live }}

The HPC has a bifurcated role between hosting the TuksSport academies and hosting athletes and teams for pre-season or pre-event training. The HPC includes the Institute for Sport Research, Sport Science and Medical Unit and the Sports Law Centre.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=4881&subid=4881&ipklookid=14 |title=High Performance Centre |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=29 November 2010 |access-date=1 October 2009 |archive-date=27 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927205911/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=4881&subid=4881&ipklookid=14 |url-status=live }}

HPC's TuksSport High School, established in 2002, is an independent specialised co-ed sports school catering for Grade 8 – 12 learners following the National Curriculum as offered by the Gauteng Department of Education. The school is supported by several national sporting federations and allows learners to train and travel internationally whilst staying in school.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=8318&subid=8318&ipklookid=14 |title=TuksSport High School |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=9 June 2011 |access-date=28 December 2011 |archive-date=6 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706045453/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=8318&subid=8318&ipklookid=14 |url-status=live }}

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Rugby is a particularly popular sport, and there are competitions between residences, faculties, and the university participates in the National Club Championships, Carlton Cup{{cite web|url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9476&ArticleID=8337 |title=TuksRugby : UP-Tuks 1 defend cup title with emphatic win|publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=12 September 2011 }}{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9476&ArticleID=8420 |title=TuksRugby : UP-Tuks over first hurdle at Club Champs |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=19 September 2011 |access-date=30 September 2011 |archive-date=24 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924132606/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=9476&articleID=8420 |url-status=live }} and the Varsity Cup Rugby Union tournament, involving the top 8 rugby playing universities in the South Africa. In the 2012 and 2013 seasons, the university won the Varsity Cup and the under 20-year-old Varsity Rugby Young Guns competitions.{{cite web|url=http://www.iol.co.za/sport/rugby/cup-competitions/tuks-clinch-varsity-cup-in-style-1.1272339|title=Tuks clinch Varsity Cup in style|author=Independent Newspapers Online|work=Independent Online|access-date=13 May 2012|archive-date=28 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528091533/http://www.iol.co.za/sport/rugby/cup-competitions/tuks-clinch-varsity-cup-in-style-1.1272339|url-status=live}}

The Tuks Rugby League Football Club, based at the University of Pretoria, compete in the Rhino Cup (First Division) as TUKS Reds and in the Protea Cup (Second Division) as the TUKS Blues. In the 2012–13 season, the Reds won the Rhino Cup Final and the Blues won the Protea Cup Final.{{cite web |url=http://www.sarugbyleague.co.za/article/9226/tuks-reign-supreme-in-2012-2013 |title=Tuks Reign Supreme in 2012-2013 Season |website=www.sarugbyleague.co.za |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310044036/http://www.sarugbyleague.co.za/article/9226/tuks-reign-supreme-in-2012-2013 |archive-date=2013-03-10}}

The university has a very active club that was only founded in 2013. The club is affiliated to Mind Sports South Africa and caters for all the disciplines that are controlled by such National Federation.

The club has had some major successes in 2014, with no less than 12 gamers qualifying for National Team Trials. The club has also become the top university club in South Africa.{{cite web|url=https://www.news24.com/MyNews24/A-new-force-in-SA-gaming-has-emerged-20140423|title=A new force in SA gaming has emerged!|date=2014-04-23|website=News24|language=en|access-date=2019-04-25|archive-date=25 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425102415/https://www.news24.com/MyNews24/A-new-force-in-SA-gaming-has-emerged-20140423|url-status=live}}

In 2002 the university established the Tuks Football Academy and the University of Pretoria F.C. oginally playing in the SAFA Gauteng South Division. In the 2003–04 season the university acquired Pretoria City F.C.'s second division status, subsequently winning the National First Division (NFD) Vodacom League play-offs and being promoted to the NFD in 2004–05. In the 2006–07 season the club qualified for the Mvela Golden League play-offs. In the 2008–09 season the club was a Nedbank Cup finalist losing to Premier Soccer League team Moroka Swallows 0–1.{{cite web |url=http://psl.co.za/content.asp?id=16586&comp=879 |title=University of Pretoria FC |publisher=Psl.co.za |date=11 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106082411/http://psl.co.za/content.asp?id=16586&comp=879 |archive-date=6 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}

Following the 2011/2012 season the University of Pretoria F.C. gained promotion to the South African Premier Soccer League (PSL), the top domestic league.{{cite web|url=http://www.supersport.com/football/national-first-division/news/120513/Tuks_secures_Premiership_promotion|title=Tuks secures Premiership promotion|access-date=13 May 2012|archive-date=7 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307091843/https://supersport.com/football/national-first-division/news/120513/Tuks_secures_Premiership_promotion|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/sport/2012/05/10/amatuks-make-it-to-top-flight|title=AmaTuks make it to top flight|access-date=13 May 2012|archive-date=2 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702021117/http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/sport/2012/05/10/amatuks-make-it-to-top-flight|url-status=live}}

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{{Main|List of University of Pretoria alumni}}

{{see also|List of chancellors and vice-chancellors of the University of Pretoria}}

The university, in more than a century of academic service, has delivered more than 250 000 alumni.{{Cite web |url=http://www.up.ac.za/en/news/post_2258354-up-celebrates-250-000-alumni |title=UP celebrates 250 000 alumni |access-date=12 September 2017 |archive-date=12 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912192759/http://www.up.ac.za/en/news/post_2258354-up-celebrates-250-000-alumni |url-status=dead }}

Alumni in commerce include several CEOs of JSE Top 50 and American Fortune 500 companies.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2969 |title=Alumni Gallery |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=26 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219221840/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=2969 |archive-date=19 February 2012 |url-status=dead }} Dr. Anton Rupert was a South African entrepreneur, businessman, conservationist and founder of the Rembrandt Group, which eventually split up into Remgro, Richemont, the second-largest luxury goods company in the world by turnover, and Reinet Investments, as of January 2008 the largest component of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.{{cite web |author=Independent Newspapers Online |url=http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3072774 |title=Tycoon Anton Rupert dies in his sleep |publisher=Busrep.co.za |date=5 May 2010 |access-date=15 September 2009 |archive-date=29 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929132412/http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3072774 |url-status=live }} He was honoured as Tukkie of the century, former chancellor of the university, and a major benefactor of the university.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10878 |title=History of the Van Wouw House |date=21 October 2009 |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=1 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401180440/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=10878 |url-status=live }} Marius Kloppers was the CEO of BHP, the world's largest mining company and named by CNN Money as the world's 18th most powerful person in business.{{cite web |author=Stephen Mayne writes |url=http://www.crikey.com.au/Business/20070531-Another-foreigner-climbs-the-mountain-at-BHP.html |title=Crikey – Another foreigner climbs to the top of the heap at BHP-Billiton – Another foreigner climbs to the top of the heap at BHP-Billiton |publisher=Crikey.com.au |date=31 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926224531/http://www.crikey.com.au/Business/20070531-Another-foreigner-climbs-the-mountain-at-BHP.html |archive-date=26 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0711/gallery.power_25.fortune/18.html |title=25 most powerful people in business |publisher=CNN |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=30 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111230222941/http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0711/gallery.power_25.fortune/18.html |url-status=live }} Johan De Nysschen was the former president at Audi Japan and is the current president of Audi America.{{cite web |url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/johan-de-nysschen/4/70/691 |title=Johan De Nysschen |publisher=Linkedin.com |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=9 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909004502/http://www.linkedin.com/pub/johan-de-nysschen/4/70/691 |url-status=live }} Russell Loubser is a former CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and a member of the team that started the futures industry in South Africa in 1987.{{cite web |url=http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/russell-loubser-1001 |title=Russell Loubser |publisher=Whoswhosa.co.za |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=20 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120161827/http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/russell-loubser-1001 |url-status=live }} Meyer Kahn is the Chairman of SABMiller the second largest brewer in the world.{{cite web |url=http://www.sabmiller.com/index.asp?pageid=358 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126215919/http://www.sabmiller.com/index.asp?pageid=358 |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 January 2009 |title=Meyer Kahn |publisher=SABMiller|access-date=12 January 2012 }}

Alumni in law include several Judges of the High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court as well as serving as United Nations Special Rapporteurs and the United Nations International Law Commission. Johann van der Westhuizen is a judge in the Constitutional Court of South Africa.{{cite web |url=http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/judges/justicejohannvanderwesthuizen/justicejohannvanderwesthuizen1.html |title=Justice Johann van der Westhuizen |access-date=9 November 2008 |publisher=Constitutional Court of South Africa |archive-date=15 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015172012/http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site/judges/justicejohannvanderwesthuizen/justicejohannvanderwesthuizen1.html |url-status=live }} He was appointed to the bench in 2004 by Thabo Mbeki. He was previously a professor at the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law and the founding director of the university's Centre for Human Rights.{{cite web|url=http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/johann-van-der-westhuizen-5739|title=Johann Van der Westhuizen|access-date=25 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920192846/http://www.whoswhosa.co.za/johann-van-der-westhuizen-5739|archive-date=20 September 2011|url-status=dead}} He currently sits on the board of the Centre for Human Rights and the University of Pretoria Council. Johann Kriegler is a former Constitutional Court and Appeal Court judge from South Africa. Christof Heyns (10 January 1959 – 28 March 2021),{{cite web|title=Passing of a legal giant, Professor Christof Heyns (10 January 1959 to 28 March 2021) {{!}} University of Pretoria|url=https://www.up.ac.za/faculty-of-law/news/post_2961363-passing-of-a-legal-giant-professor-christof-heyns-10-january-1959-to-28-march-2021|access-date=2021-05-03|website=www.up.ac.za|language=en|archive-date=3 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503143049/https://www.up.ac.za/faculty-of-law/news/post_2961363-passing-of-a-legal-giant-professor-christof-heyns-10-january-1959-to-28-march-2021|url-status=live}} a former director (1999–2006) of the Centre for Human Rights, was a professor of human rights law, co-director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria and United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.{{cite web |url=http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16621&subid=16621&ipklookid=10 |title=Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions |publisher=Web.up.ac.za |date=27 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916090917/http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=16621&subid=16621&ipklookid=10 |archive-date=16 September 2011 |url-status=dead }} Dire Tladi is a former Principal State Law Adviser for International Law for the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation, legal advisor to the South Africa Mission to the United Nations{{cite web|url=http://sun025.sun.ac.za/portal/page/portal/law/index.english/departments/public_staff_profiles|title=Prof Dire Tladi|access-date=28 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509074138/http://sun025.sun.ac.za/portal/page/portal/law/index.english/departments/public_staff_profiles|archive-date=9 May 2012|url-status=dead}} and member of the United Nations International Law Commission.

Alumni in divinity include several theologians.

Albert Geyser was a South African cleric, scholar and anti-apartheid theologian. He was one of the first Afrikaner nationalists to speak out against the Broederbond and apartheid on theological grounds. He is also known for his work as one of a number of scholars involved in the first annotated edition (1953–1958) of the Bible in Afrikaans. Johan Heyns, was an influential Afrikaner Calvinist theologian and moderator of the general synod of the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK). He was assassinated, although his murder was never officially resolved it is widely believed[http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/commission/country51/24.htm Monitoring The Transition To Democracy In South Africa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205022347/http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/commission/country51/24.htm |date=5 February 2012 }}, by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 16 January 1995 – paragraph 78 that it was directly related to his criticism of Apartheid.{{cite web |first=Michael |last=Shafto |work=The Sunday Star |date=19 August 1990 |url=http://www.thestar.co.za/ |title=Hendrik Pretorius has truly set the cat among some very disapproving pigeons in the Ned Geref Church, with the publication of a book, Om gay te wees: straf of seën? (To be Gay: Punishment or Blessing?) and by coming out of the closet this week, he has filled Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk traditionalists with fear and alarm |access-date=13 May 2012 |archive-date=27 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527110106/http://www.thestar.co.za/ |url-status=live }} Nelson Mandela paid homage to him as a martyr for his country[http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1996/sp960508.html Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713010357/http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1996/sp960508.html |date=13 July 2009 }}, Cape Town, 8 May 1996 and a soldier of peace.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E7DE133EF934A35752C1A962958260 Anti-Apartheid Minister Shot Dead in Pretoria] New York Times 7 November 1994

Alumni include several sporting personalities. South Africa national rugby union team member's (Springboks) associated with the university include coach Heyneke Meyer{{cite web|url=http://sarugby.co.za/article.aspx?category=&pcurr=1&id=1218821|title=SA Rugby – Official Home of the Springboks|work=sarugby.co.za|access-date=1 February 2012|archive-date=28 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128125625/http://sarugby.co.za/article.aspx?category=&pcurr=1&id=1218821|url-status=live}} and former Springbok captains Victor Matfield, Wynand Claassen, Naas Botha and Joost van der Westhuizen. Other notable sporting personalities include Caster Semenya, Tatjana Schoenmaker{{cite news |last1=Butler |first1=Lynn |title=How Tatjana Schoenmaker was motivated by Tuks partner Corbett: 'We celebrate each other's victories' |url=https://www.news24.com/sport/othersport/olympics2020/how-tatjana-schoenmaker-was-motivated-by-tuks-partner-corbett-we-celebrate-each-others-victories-20210728 |access-date=2 August 2021 |agency=News24 |archive-date=2 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802063429/https://www.news24.com/sport/othersport/olympics2020/how-tatjana-schoenmaker-was-motivated-by-tuks-partner-corbett-we-celebrate-each-others-victories-20210728 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Njoki |first1=Eugne |title=Tatjana Schoenmaker |url=https://briefly.co.za/105310-tatjana-schoenmaker-age-education-images-olympic-record-profiles.html |website=briefly |date=31 July 2021 |access-date=2 August 2021 |archive-date=2 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802063430/https://briefly.co.za/105310-tatjana-schoenmaker-age-education-images-olympic-record-profiles.html |url-status=live }} and Oscar Pistorius, who became the first double amputee runner at an Olympic Games when he competed at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

File:University of Pretoria graduation 1908-1930.jpg|{{center|Graduate with a banner of the TUC}}

File:University of Pretoria Graduation 1918.jpg|{{center|Graduation ceremony in 1918}}

File:University of Pretoria graduation 1920.jpg|{{center|Graduation ceremony in 1920}}

File:University of Pretoria graduation 1922.jpg|{{center|Graduation ceremony in 1922}}

In 2022, when the university allegedly owed Tshwane R34 million in outstanding municipal bills, Tshwane moved to disconnect the water and power supply of their Hillcrest campus. The university paid up under protest at the last minute, stating that an interruption would compromise various facilities including student residences, sensitive research equipment and experiments, data centres and live animals.{{cite news |last1=Bhengu |first1=Lwandile |title=UP calls Tshwane's attempts to cut power over unpaid bills 'political grandstanding' |url=https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/up-calls-tshwanes-attempts-to-cut-power-over-unpaid-bills-political-grandstanding-20220211 |access-date=17 February 2022 |agency=News24 |publisher=news24.com |date=11 February 2022}}

The university's medical school has been ranked among the top five in the country.{{cite web |last1=Admin |title=10 Best Universities in South Africa to Study Medicine |url=https://studygreen.info/best-universities-in-south-africa-to-study-medicine/ |website=StudyGreen |date=8 December 2021 |access-date=18 February 2022 |ref=8 December 2021}} In 2022 Dr Angelique Coetzee, then chairwoman of the South African Medical Association, stated in a radio interview that admission processes at medical schools are highly politicized, and that medical faculties implement race quotas.{{cite news |last1=Cornelissen |first1=Christel |title=Coetzee 'gestraf' oor waarheid |url=https://maroelamedia.co.za/nuus/sa-nuus/coetzee-gestraf-oor-waarheid/ |access-date=18 February 2022 |agency=Maroela Media |publisher=maroelamedia.co.za |date=18 February 2022}} After she apologized for her statements and resigned as chairwoman, Dirk Hermann of Solidarity reiterated that race-based admission processes were explicitly included in admission policies, and stated that these were detrimental to white students and health care.

{{category see also|Academic staff of the University of Pretoria}}

• Theo Akkermann (1907–1982), German sculptor
• Conrad J. Wethmar, systematic theologian
• Johan Heyns, systematic theologian
• Lavagnon Ika, management scientist
• Shudufhadzo Musida, Miss South Africa 2020
• Lalela Mswane, Miss South Africa 2021 and Miss Supranational 2022

• Open access in South Africa and List of South African open access repositories

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• Duffey, Alexander et al. The Art & Heritage Collections of the University of Pretoria (2008)
• van der Watt, F. Rectores Magnifici (2003). 196pp. {{ISBN|978-1-86919-043-9}}
• Roodt, P.H., ed. Amfiteater: skrywerstemme van oud-Tukkies (2008) Protea Boekhuis
• Botha, M.C. Foundation stone laid at the University of Pretoria (1942) [http://hdl.handle.net/2263/180 UPSpace at the University of Pretoria: Hoeksteenlegging by Universiteit van Pretoria]

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• [http://www.up.on-wiki.net UP Wiki]
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