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Postgraduate students now make up almost 40% of Wits students

The Home of Talented Scholars

Places and Spaces Student

400 buildings, 7 campuses, including the Wits Rural Campus

Places and Spaces

11 Libraries, 18 Residences, 2 commercial companies – Wits Health Consortium and Wits Enterprise

41 100 students (2021)

57% female

Science

13.43%

400 buildings, 7 campuses, including the Wits Rural Facility

Almost 50% to attend a university

5 Faculties, 33 Schools, 3 200 courses

11 Libraries, 17 Residences, 2 commercial companies –Wits Health Consortium and Wits Enterprise

1 665 academics, 6 582 employees,

2 170 joint staff

Wits owns the Sterkfontein Caves in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site and a private teaching hospital – the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre

Wits owns the Sterkfontein Caves in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site and a private teaching hospital –the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre

Postgraduate students now make up almost 40% of Wits students

International Students 2 366 (6%)

Humanities

25.45%

Health the library and the

3,100 students enrolled in 1945 offices of the Faculty moved to a new Esselen Street, Hillbrow, Graduate School of established in

In of the vice-chancellor, also located in Parktown, was made available to the university in 1969. In the same year, the clinical departments in the new Medical School were opened. However, the Medical School moved premises again and is now situated in York Road, Parktown, in a complex that was opened on August 30 1982. to the critique that Wits was essentially an urban university. At the time, Professor John Gear argued that “rural and urban are two sides of the same coin. The fate of one impacts the other.”

The Johannesburg College of Education was transformed into the Wits School of Education in Parktown, now firmly embedded in the faculty of humanities.

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Expansion into Braamfontein also took place. In 1976, Lawson’s