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University of Pretoria

University in South Africa

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About

instance of
inception
  • 4 March 1908

Location and contact

country
located in the administrative territorial entity
coordinate location
  • -25.7536, 28.2297
official website

People and numbers

count of students
  • 50,000
employees
  • 3,600

Rankings and recognition

ranking
  • 362 · QS World University Rankings · 2026
Earlier figures (2)
  • 354 · QS World University Rankings · 2025
  • 323 · QS World University Rankings · 2024

Finances

funder
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $200,000 · award rationale: to promote a healthy information ecosystem using the African Union (AU) normative framework on freedom of expression and access to information by enhancing awareness of AU instruments and promoting their implementation · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $200,000 · award rationale: to support research on the intersection of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights, particularly for African people · 2023
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $197,009 · award rationale: to support the Centre for Child Law. Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations · 2022
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $125,000 · award rationale: to enable the work of the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) in supporting African communities and individuals whose human rights are adversely impacted daily by the activities of both multi-national and domestic corporations · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $250,000 · award rationale: to support the Centre for Human Rights' educational program on sexual and reproductive rights · 2021
7 more
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $160,007 · award rationale: to support the LLM/MPhil in Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights · 2020
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $211,091 · award rationale: Funds to support this grant are drawn from AOSI’s Joint Fund to Promote and Advance Constitutionalism in South Africa (the "Constitutionalism Fund"), a collaboration among The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations. The Constitutionalism Fund has a mandate to support the efforts of civil society organizations to promote and advance constitutionalism in South Africa. In addition, emphasis is placed on internal institutional transformation such that key organizations in the field reflect the national demographic. This mandate also extends to the sustainability and transformation of the field more broadly. The grant is made consistent with this mandate and in support of the Grantee’s submitted and approved proposal and budget · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $175,000 · award rationale: to support the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability at the Grantee's Centre for Human Rights to deepen knowledge and capacity to challenge and remedy corporate human rights abuses in Africa · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $81,500 · award rationale: to support the LLM/MPhil program in Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $159,896 · award rationale: to support the LLM/MPhil in Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights · 2018
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $299,973 · award rationale: Disability Rights and Law Schools Project in Africa/University of Pretoria/2017-2018 · 2017
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $150,000 · award rationale: to build the capacity of African civil society groups to monitor, challenge, and address corporate human rights abuses across the continent · 2017

Structure and memberships

member of
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owner of
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Commons category
  • University of Pretoria
topic's main category
category for alumni of educational institution
category for employees of the organization
IPv4 routing prefix
  • 137.215.0.0/16
  • 196.248.0.0/16
social media followers
  • 388,409 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 70902697 · 5 February 2023
  • 32,200 · YouTube channel ID: UC1QWx2wruTCTuv38ghHXtYQ · 11 May 2025
Earlier figures (8)
  • 371,619 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 70902697 · 8 January 2022
  • 362,033 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 70902697 · 5 January 2021
  • 355,802 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 70902697 · 24 April 2020
  • 29,000 · YouTube channel ID: UC1QWx2wruTCTuv38ghHXtYQ · 27 July 2024
  • 26,300 · YouTube channel ID: UC1QWx2wruTCTuv38ghHXtYQ · 15 January 2024
  • 23,100 · YouTube channel ID: UC1QWx2wruTCTuv38ghHXtYQ · 17 February 2023
  • 18,300 · YouTube channel ID: UC1QWx2wruTCTuv38ghHXtYQ · 18 March 2022
  • 14,500 · YouTube channel ID: UC1QWx2wruTCTuv38ghHXtYQ · 3 July 2021
Identifiers in other databases (51)
ARCHON code
  • 686 · subject named as: University of Pretoria: Merensky Library
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  • 1010792-7 · subject named as: University of Pretoria · since 1930
  • 110211-4 · subject named as: Transvaal University College Pretoria
  • 1086203194 · subject has role: duplicate entry
  • 1086511387 · subject has role: duplicate entry
  • 1090420137 · subject has role: duplicate entry
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  • P4310315352 · subject named as: University of Pretoria
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X (Twitter) username
  • uptuks · has characteristic: verified account or profile · number of subscribers: 355,802 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 70902697 · 24 April 2020
  • UPTuks
YouTube channel ID
  • UC1QWx2wruTCTuv38ghHXtYQ · subject named as: University of Pretoria · number of works: 708 · number of subscribers: 9,590 · number of viewers/listeners: 1,703,517 · 8 December 2020
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