University of Venda

University of Venda
Motto	Knowledge is Precious
Established	1982
Type	Public university
Vice-Chancellor	Prof. Peter Mbati
Location	Thohoyandou, Limpopo, South Africa
Website	http://www.univen.ac.za/

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The University of Venda (Univen) is a South African university, located in Thohoyandou in Limpopo province.

History

It was established in 1982 to serve the inhabitants of the Venda bantustan, however, the student body at Univen never consisted of Venda students only, student from all over the Northern Transvaal attended the Institution. After the end of apartheid and the re-integration of the bantustans into South Africa, Univen student body were drawn from all over South Africa. With the South African government's programme of tertiary education reform in the new millennium, Univen became a "comprehensive university", offering both theoretically oriented and practically oriented courses.

Student Enrolment

The University of Venda had 10,968 full-time contact students in 2008 (actual data). There were no distance students enrolled and no part-time learning was on offer.^[1]

Ranking

References

v t e Foundation of Tertiary Institutions of the Northern Metropolis Members University of Johannesburg University of Limpopo North-West University University of Pretoria University of South Africa Tshwane University of Technology Vaal University of Technology University of Venda University of the Witwatersrand

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