• Administrator in the School of Engineering Ms Wendy Janssens completed the gruelling 267km Sani2c trail race...read more
  • DIFF-Nominated-for-Africa-Award The Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), hosted annually by UKZN’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), has been nominated in...read more
  • September 2013 marks a significant milestone for Ms Hlengiwe Madlala, a UKZN student from KwaZulu-Natal’s rural village of Mkhambathini who received...read more
  • The international legality of drone attacks by the United States was explored during a presentation by Melbourne Law School’s Associate Professor...read more
  • Tree-Planted-for-International-Biological-Diversity-Day The School of Life Sciences celebrated International Biological Diversity Day by planting a Natal Forest Cabbage Tree near...read more
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Did you Know?

UKZN’s School of Information Systems and Technology was the first university in South Africa to introduce Podcasting as an educational tool.

The University enjoys a century of academic advancements.

Spud author, John Van De Ruit, graduated from UKZN.

UKZN is the third most productive university in South Africa in terms of research output

South Africa's best-known and most popular television maths and science teacher William Smith obtained a Master’s degree from the former University of Natal

UKZN is one of three African universities rated amongst the top 500 universities of the world according to the Academic Rankings of World Universities(ARWU).

The multimillion-rand KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS (K-RITH), an international centre of scientific research, is located on the University's Medical school campus.

The University offers approximately 2 000 academic programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

UKZN has been home to many successful sportsman over the years, Tommy Bedford a former Springbok Rugby player, Shaun Pollock & Jonty Rhodes South African Cricketers.

Some high profile businessmen studied at UKZN, Sol Kerzner the developer of Lost city & more, Stephen Saad the CEO & founder of Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, Guy Brazier the regional leader of Deloitte & Alan Olivier the CEO of Grindrod Group.

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