UP Faculties, GIBS Business School, Mamelodi Campus UP is one of the largest research-intensive and contact universities in South Africa, with seven exceptional campuses and nine highly regarded
faculties spanning the knowledge spectrum: from classic academic fields to rapidly evolving 4IR-focused programmes. Our faculties are well equipped with stateof-the-art research facilities, laboratories, academic libraries, skills development and practical learning opportunities, and spaces to learn or study socially or individually. Our seven campuses are customised for their purposes so that our students, academic and research staff have the best possible resources at their disposal to maximise their talent in their chosen field of study. We are home to Africa’s best Faculty of Law according to the Times Higher Education’s (THE) 2020 survey, to South Africa’s only Faculty of Veterinary Science (celebrating 100 years in 2020), and our business school, the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), is ranked as one of the top business schools in Africa and globally, according to the UK Financial Times. Our Mamelodi Campus hosts the first year of UP’s flagship BSc and BCom Extended Curriculum Programmes (ECPs). Our Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences celebrated 100 years in 2020 and our Faculty of Humanities, one of the oldest in South Africa, celebrated its centenary in 2019. One hundred and twenty academic departments provide a combined course offering of over 1 200 programmes across the following faculties and business school.
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