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FUTURE-FIT

CREATINGGRADUATES AN IMPACT THROUGH

#2 IN SA

UP is ranked second in South Africa and 190th in the world for producing graduates who understand the world of work and can make a valuable contribution right from the start.6

100%

Pass rate for veterinary nurses completing the only BVetNurs degree in Africa

90% of the 2021 graduates were either working or studying fulltime or part-time in 2022

86% Examination pass rate in 2022

Offering strong learning support

• FLY@UP – ensures students can graduate in minimum time

• FLYHIGHER@UP – improves postgraduate success rate

• Social learning spaces – mimic realworld work and social environments

• Connected campuses – fibre optic connectivity across all campuses

• Dedicated ECP campus – the Mamelodi Campus hosts UP’s flagship BSc and BCom extended curriculum programmes (ECPs) to set students up for success in the first year of their studies.

• jTOnline e-learning platform – helps high-school learners with free learning content.

Shaping students ready to work

• Ready for Work online courses help students prepare for the workplace.

• An Entrepreneurship programme teaches students how to become job creators rather than job seekers.

• Centre for the Future of Work researches new ways of working to create future-fit graduates.

CARING

WITH IMPACT WE’RE BUILDING THE FUTURE BY

In service to society

Socially responsible:

UP is the only representative from Africa in the University Social Responsibility Network, an international group of 16 top universities.

Actively engaged: 300 modules and 15 000 students are involved in 3 000 projects with 1 000 community partners.

Boosting brainpower

UP contributes to the following degrees in SA:

of all Science, Engineering, and Technology degrees, the highest of all contact universities in SA7 8.4%

MAKING TODAY MATTER

A DEEP GLOBAL FOOTPRINT MAKING AN IMPACT WITH IMPACTFUL RESEARCHLEAVING

• Agricultural Sciences

• Biology and Biochemistry

• Chemistry

• Clinical Medicine

• Economics & Business

• Engineering • Environment / Ecology • Geosciences

• Immunology • Microbiology

OUR MARK THROUGH

Molecular Biology & Genetics • Social Sciences

• Pharmacology & Toxicology

• Plant & Animal Science

UP is the only university in South Africa to feature in Economics and Business.3

• Biodiscovery Centre – a library of natural products in Africa

• African Centre for Biosecurity and Disease Risk Assessment – “One HealthOne Biosecurity” solutions to address global disease- and animal healthrelated challenges

• Pan African Cancer Research Institute (PACRI) – to transform the fight against cancer in Africa

• African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Pretoria (ACSUS-UP)

• Centre for Asian Studies in Africa (CASA).

Collaborative international research in 2022 included:

• a leading-edge multidisciplinary study on the effects of grazing in deserts

• a study to investigate termite and microbial wood discovery and decay

• the discovery of the world’s largest fish breeding colony in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica

• part of a high-level team to detect and characterise the genome of strains of the old-world Middelburg virus.

We collaborate with over 3 000 institutions across the globe and have some 230 international institution-wide partnerships across 70 countries and 6 continents.

Connected and collaborative

Percentage of research that UP conducts with international collaborators