page_title: University of Pretoria
section_title: Research
hierarchical_section_title: University of Pretoria / Academics / Research
caption_attribution_description: Afrikaans: Die Geesteswetenskappegebou by die hoofingang na die Hatfieldkampus van die Universiteit van Pretoria. Op die voorgrond, links, is die Merensky-2-biblioteek. English: University of Pretoria Humanities building, Hatfield campus
context_page_description: The University of Pretoria is a multi-campus public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of the Johannesburg-based Transvaal University College and is the fourth South African institution in continuous operation to be awarded university status. The university has grown from the original 32 students in a single late Victorian house to approximately 53,000 in 2019. The University was built on 7 suburban campuses on 1,190 hectares.
  The University is organised into nine faculties and a business school. Established in 1920, the University of Pretoria Faculty of Veterinary Science is the second oldest veterinary school in Africa and the only veterinary school in South Africa. In 1949, the university launched the first MBA programme outside North America and the university's Gordon Institute of Business Science has consistently been ranked the top business school in Africa for executive education, as well as being placed in the top 50 in the world. In 2012, the Financial Times ranked the GIBS Executive MBA 1st in Africa and 60th in the world.
context_section_description: The university's achievements and performance in research locally and internationally, including its collaboration and cooperation with the private sector, industry, science councils, foundations and NGOs, the large number of graduates that it produces (particularly doctoral and other postgraduate students) as well as scientists and engineers and its focus on innovation, contribute directly towards enhancing the South Africa's competitiveness. A 2010 report by Centre for Higher Education Transformation identified the university as a top research-intensive university in South Africa. The university is member of the CDIO Initiative, an international engineering education collaboration.
  The strategic alliance formed in 1999 between the University of Pretoria and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has been abandoned for unpublished reasons. This alliance, which was known as the Southern Education and Research Alliance (SERA), collaborated locally and internationally with universities, NGOs, companies and multinational bodies in various research areas.
  Notable research includes:
  Centre for Human Rights
  Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)
  African Centre for Genome Technologies
caption: The Faculty of Humanities building, designed by alumnus Brian Sandrock, was constructed over Roper Street in 1977[114]
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