University of the Free State

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instance of	public university open-access publisher university
inception	1904
official name	University of the Free State Universiteit van die Vrystaat (af) Yunivesithi ya Freistata (sw)
motto text	In Veritate Sapientiae Lux (la)

country	South Africa
located in the administrative territorial entity	Bloemfontein
coordinate location	-29.1044, 26.1752
official website	https://www.ufs.ac.za/ · language of work or name: English

count of students	37,000 · 2011
employees	2,900

member of	South African National Library and Information Consortium · September 2023 ORCID, Inc. · October 2023 African Library and Information Associations and Institutions Association of African Universities

Images and media on Wikimedia Commons (1)

image	Main building FSU 5.jpg · media legend: Bâtiment principal de l'université de l'État-Libre devant lequel trône la statue du président [[Marthinus Theunis Steyn\|Marthinus Steyn]], œuvre d'[[Anton van Wouw]] (1929). (fr)

Wikimedia and technical details (7)

Commons category	University of the Free State
topic's main category	Category:University of the Free State
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:University of the Free State alumni
category for employees of the organization	Category:Academic staff of the University of the Free State
on focus list of Wikimedia project	Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher
IPv4 routing prefix	196.254.0.0/15
social media followers	29,470 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 246679035 · 2 February 2023 7,480 · YouTube channel ID: UC-5nTrCYaj7babZVkmzM94Q · 25 January 2025 Earlier figures (4) 27,296 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 246679035 · 27 January 2022 25,676 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 246679035 · 6 January 2021 6,750 · YouTube channel ID: UC-5nTrCYaj7babZVkmzM94Q · 20 April 2024 6,070 · YouTube channel ID: UC-5nTrCYaj7babZVkmzM94Q · 30 August 2023

Identifiers in other databases (30)

ARWU university ID	university-of-the-free-state
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID	12329357b
Crunchbase organization ID	university-of-the-free-state
EU Participant Identification Code	989106091
EU VAT number	ZA4240106866
Facebook username	UFSUV
FAST ID	762271
Freebase ID	/m/07vz0y
Google Scholar organization ID	18076742895177555972
GRID ID	grid.412219.d
IdRef ID	032220782
Instagram username	ufsuv
ISNI	000000012284638X
J9U entity ID	987007302921705171
KISTI ID	K000205357
Library of Congress Authorities ID	no2001020471
LinkedIn company or organization ID	u-f-s
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)	26999989
Olympedia affiliations ID	6677
Open Funder Registry funder ID	501100004765
OpenAlex ID	P4310315345 · subject named as: University of the Free State
Quora topic ID	University-of-the-Free-State
Ringgold ID	37702
ROR ID	009xwd568
SNARC ID	Q48900
VIAF cluster ID	121871162 295822184
X (Twitter) username	UFSweb · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 246679035 · 5 March 2020
YouTube channel ID	UC-5nTrCYaj7babZVkmzM94Q · subject named as: University of the Free State · number of works: 563 · number of subscribers: 6,050 · number of viewers/listeners: 722,233 · YouTube handle: UFSWeb · 20 August 2023
‎Scilit organization ID	5555
‎Yale LUX ID	group/67bdf82c-2ab2-4d79-aa87-6e411133b6f9