Privacy Policy

The University of KwaZulu-Natal respects each individual user's right to privacy.

In order to make your visit to the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Web site easier and more friendly we may place a "cookie" on your hard drive. Cookies are small pieces of information that a Web site places on your computer's hard drive for tracking where you are in the site and also allows us to create page content dynamically from information stored on our Web.

We do not store any information collected while you are visiting our Web site. However, under certain conditions, such as the filling a form requesting information from us or when making an on-line application, such information is stored to enable us to process your request. Also, such information enter here will be known to only two parties: you and the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

E-mail addresses and other personal information stored on your computer is never, under any condition, read from your computer.

If you have any queries regarding the UKZN website please send a comment to Web Management.

General Enquiries

Edgewood 031-260-1111
Howard College 031-260-1111
Medical School 031-260-1111
Westville 031-260-1111
Pietermaritzburg 033-260-1111

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.

UKZN was founded in 1910 – it is now 100 years old!

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

In 2010 there was a total of 41 626 students at UKZN, of this 32 791 were undergraduate & 8 835 were postgraduate.

UKZN has won the Daily News ‘Your choice award’ for the best University/College for the past seven years running.

Globally UKZN is one of only three South African universities in the top 500 Universities in the world.

UKZN is the third most productive University in terms of its research production.

The University employs over 5000 staff members.

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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