Schools

KwaZulu-Natal is also South Africa's hub of premier education. The province is a home of two of the best higher institutions of learning of country, the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the University of Zululand.

The University of KwaZulu-Natal was established in January 2004, a result of merge of the University of Natal, which was founded in 1910, and the University of Durban-Westville, founded in 1960. The merge was mandated by the government in its plan to restructure the system of higher education of the country. Today the University of KwaZulu-Natal has 4 colleges and 8 faculities, including the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine. It offers more than a hundred programs ranging from associate, undergraduate, masteral and doctoral degrees.

 

 

The University has five campuses spread across the province--Edgewood campus, Howard campus, Medical School campus, Pietermaritzburg campus, and Westville campus. The Edgewood campus in Pinetown is the university's site for the Faculty of Education. The Howard campus is the school's largest wherein students of Science, Engineering, Law, Humanities, Architecture and Social Sciences attend. The Medical School, obviously, is the site for medical sciences, founded in the 1950. The Pietermaritzburg campus carry the disciplines of Agriculture, Theology and Fine Art, while the Westville campus serves as the seat of administrative offices, and home of Commerce and Management disciplines.

The University of Zululand is the flagship university of KwaZulu-Natal. Established in 1960, it is designated to centralize tertiary learning in accordance to South Africa's National Plan for Higher Education. The university provides courses ranging from undergraduate to postgraduate, the curricular designs of which are based on the needs of potential employers and industries of the state. It is composed of the Faculties of Arts, Science and Agriculture, and Commerce, Administration and Law. It has university partnerships in America and in Europe, some of these are the University of Mississippi, Radford University and Chicago State University. Its main campus is located in Kwadlangezwa, and it presently it has an enrollment population of more than 6,800 students.