Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Prospectus 2024

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Prospectus 2024

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Prospectus 2024:

ABOUT NELSON MANDELA UNIVERSITY

Nelson Mandela University is a new generation university, distinguished by a wide range of study options and access routes open to students. With 470 programmes from certificate through to doctoral level across 200 different career fields, Nelson Mandela University truly is a comprehensive university.

Founded on more than a century of quality higher education, Nelson Mandela University nurtures innovation, fosters creativity, embraces technology and develops people towards changing the world for the better. The University was previously known as Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), but on 21 July 2017 it was officially re-launched as Nelson Mandela University – the only university in the world to have been given this privilege. Our alumni also come from the University of Port Elizabeth, the Port Elizabeth Technikon and Port Elizabeth campus of Vista University, as these three institutions were merged to form NMMU in 2005.

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The University has a strong record of accomplishment of research, working extensively in partnership with business and industry, and has an even more exciting future ahead of it, especially in terms of its contribution to the socioeconomic development of the metro, region, country and continent of Africa.

This is due, among other new and growing ventures, to Nelson Mandela University’s bold journey towards becoming the leading destination for all Ocean Sciences related teaching, learning, research and engagement in Africa with the launch of its dedicated Campus in September 2017.

Our campuses

The launch of the Ocean Sciences Campus means Nelson Mandela University now has seven campuses and about 27 000 students.

Six of Nelson Mandela University’s campuses are in Nelson Mandela Bay and one is in George on the Garden Route. The seven campuses are:

•South Campus in Summerstrand (within a 720-hectare private nature reserve)

•North Campus in Summerstrand

•Ocean Sciences Campus, adjacent to North and South campuses in Summerstrand

•Second Avenue Campus, home to our “green” Business School, in Summerstrand

•Bird Street Campus, a growing postgraduate arts hub in Central

•Missionvale Campus in Missionvale

•George Campus in George

Facilities and supportive teaching and learning environment

Nelson Mandela University is privileged to have outstanding facilities. All students have access to well-equipped laboratories, some of which are open 24/7, and free Wi-Fi throughout all its campuses. All lecture halls are equipped with the latest technology and students have the opportunity of using additional e-learning tools online. The campus libraries and information services network offers a state-of-the-art integrated online system. There are cafeterias, food courts and coffee shops.

A range of opportunities is provided to enhance the academic success of students. These include a first-year orientation programme, peer-facilitated learning opportunities (eg, Supplemental Instruction, e-PAL, tutorials, practicals, mentor programmes, ‘Keys to Success’ workshops and online resources). The University also promotes learning and development beyond the classroom towards enhancing holistic student development. To recognise this learning, Nelson Mandela University has developed an innovative, electronic co-curricular record system. This record complements the students’ academic record.

The University also offers the finest sporting facilities in the Eastern Cape and numerous venues for conferences, meetings and other special events.

Faculties

Nelson Mandela University has seven faculties. They are:

•Arts

•Business and Economic Sciences

•Education

•Engineering, the Built Environment and Information Technology

•Health Sciences

•Law

•Science

Academic focus areas

Though the University prides itself on its vast range of programme offerings, it has a number of strategic areas in terms of its core business of teaching and learning, research and engagement. These are:

•Health and wellness

•Economic and business development with a focus on job creation and entrepreneurship

•Materials and process development for industry and manufacturing

•Emerging information and communications technology for development

•Environmental and natural resource management

•Culture, communication and language

•Leadership, governance, democracy and justice

•Educational development in support of excellence in teaching, learning and curriculum

•Infrastructure and human settlement development

Strategic research areas

•Biodiversity conservation and restoration

•Coastal marine and shallow water ecosystems

•Cyber citizenship

•Democratisation, conflict and poverty

•Earth Stewardship Science

•Health and wellbeing

•Humanising pedagogies

•Manufacturing technology and engineering

•Nanoscale characterisation and development of strategic materials

•Science, Mathematics and Technology Education for Society

•Strategic energy technologies

•Sustainable human settlement development and management

•Sustainable local economic development

Research and Engagement entities

Nelson Mandela University has more than 30 focused institutes, centres and units that exist over and above the formal academic structures. These are aimed at promoting research, technology transfer and innovation. They include the likes of InnoVenton, the University’s go-getting Institute for Chemical Technology and Downstream Chemicals; eNtsa, an institute that focuses on seeking solutions through engineering; Earth Stewardship Science Research Institute (ESSRI); and the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research. Many are award-winning entities. The University also has many more engagement institutes, centres and units and two clinics serving society in various initiatives. Its mobile Zanemphilo health platform, for example, serves both indigent communities and its Health Sciences students with practical experience. The latter forms part of the growing Interprofessional Education (IPE) that will undergird the University’s Health Science qualifications as it moves towards the formalisation of its Medical School.

‘Green’ endeavours

In line with its value of respect for the natural environment, Nelson Mandela University is involved in a large number of “green” initiatives that will not only reduce its own carbon footprint but is also assisting others in seeking renewable energy resource solutions. The university’s Business School, for example, was the first in the country to be awarded four-star “green” accreditation for a public and education building by the Green Building Council of South Africa in 2013. The “green” agenda is supported by the Centre for Renewable Energy, which is recognised as a research leader in the field, and the University’s overriding strategic priority towards all-roundenvironmental economic and environmental sustainability.

International links

Just over 8% of the University’s student body comes from 84 different countries outside of South Africa. The Office for International Education fosters relationships and manages inter-institutionallinkages to enrich both Nelson Mandela University staff and students. These partnerships also foster our growing research.

Reasons to be proud:

•Nelson Mandela University’s diversity and multiculturalism. Our African students come from 32 countries on the continent.

•Nelson Mandela University is the only University in the world to be named after the global icon Nelson Mandela

•The Centre for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (CHRTEM) is the only place in Africa where scientists can view atoms in line with the University’s growing prominence for nanoscience.

•The University was chosen to host the country’s 10th Medical School, and expects its first cohort of medical students from 2024.

•43% of our academic staff have doctoral degrees, which is above the national average.

•New infrastructure like the second iconic Engineering Block on North Campus, the High Performance Complex complete with a 100m research sprint track, and the Science Building on South Campus.

•The University has the only dedicated Ocean Sciences Campus in South Africa and is working together across disciplines – from the Arts through to Zoology – to find innovative, sustainably solutions in growing the country’s blue economy.

•Nelson Mandela University has excellent links with industry and business, particularly within the pharmacy, tourism, the automotive industries and now with all Ocean Sciences-relatedpartners.

•Nelson Mandela University’s ongoing education partnership of ten years with Fifa, as one of only two presenters in Africa of an international sports management programme through the Centre International d’Etude du Sport (CIES).

•In 2012 the University was selected to facilitate the country’s first electric e-mobilityprogramme and technical centre, called the uYilo e-mobility programme.

•The University has extensive expertise within the field of friction processing which has resulted in numerous national awards for the patented technology, WeldCore®. This technology has saved industry vast sums of money.

•Nelson Mandela University’s accounting and pharmacy students who continue to produce top results in their national external examinations.

•The University’s international award-winning choir which continues to perform around the globe to wide acclaim.