University of South Africa

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About

instance of	public university university
inception	26 June 1873
official name	University of South Africa Universiteit van Suid-Afrika (af) Yunivesithi ya Afurika Tshipembe (ve)
language used	English

Location and contact

country	South Africa
located in the administrative territorial entity	Pretoria
coordinate location	-25.7672, 28.1994
official website	https://www.unisa.ac.za/

People and numbers

count of students	420,000 · 2019

Structure and memberships

member of	ORCID, Inc. · October 2023 Association of Commonwealth Universities Universities South Africa South African National Library and Information Consortium · September 2023 African Library and Information Associations and Institutions 4 more Open Education Global International Council for Open and Distance Education Association of African Universities International Association of Universities

Other facts

significant event	name change · statement is subject of: University of the Cape of Good Hope · 1916

Images and media on Wikimedia Commons (2)

image	The University of South Africa.jpg · media legend: Campus principal de l'université d'Afrique du Sud. (fr)
logo image	University of south africa logo.jpg

Wikimedia and technical details (4)

Commons category	University of South Africa
topic's main category	Category:University of South Africa
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:University of South Africa alumni
social media followers	205,107 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 57277057 · 5 February 2023 Earlier figures (3) 185,252 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 57277057 · 26 February 2022 155,499 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 57277057 · 3 January 2021 135,163 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 57277057 · 24 April 2020

Identifiers in other databases (40)

ARWU university ID	University-of-South-Africa
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID	11868072q
BIBSYS ID	90706076
Canadiana Name Authority ID	ncf10754146
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID	place/University-of-South-Africa · subject named as: University of South Africa
Freebase ID	/m/07w16
Gateway to Research organization ID	D8222073-502B-4BEA-9F4E-05C82AF2689A
GND ID	36220-7
Google Maps Customer ID	6761588838578923147
Google Scholar organization ID	10976511949285581406
GRID ID	grid.412801.e
IdRef ID	026432102
ISNI	0000000406103238 0000000121559653
J9U entity ID	987007269193405171
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID	36220-7
Kallías ID	KS00154582
Libraries Australia ID	36526909
Library of Congress Authorities ID	n79138904
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)	165390105
National Library of Brazil ID	000378437
National Library of Poland MMS ID	9810634533405606
NL CR AUT ID	ko2008472740 · subject named as: University of South Africa
NUKAT ID	n97084034
Open Funder Registry funder ID	501100008227
OpenAlex ID	P4310315321 · subject named as: University of South Africa
openMLOL author ID	168122
Quora topic ID	University-of-South-Africa
RERO ID (legacy)	A000192919
Ringgold ID	56866
ROR ID	048cwvf49
SHARE Catalogue author ID	455328
SNARC ID	Q49219
Times Higher Education World University ID	university-south-africa
Union List of Artist Names ID	500310230
Vatican Library VcBA ID	494/5232
VIAF cluster ID	129599822
World Higher Education Database ID	IAU-020493
X (Twitter) username	unisa · number of subscribers: 135,163 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 57277057 · 24 April 2020
‎Scilit organization ID	6065
‎Yale LUX ID	group/206b3191-4e89-42c5-9645-2d7b8db60739