Facilities Available to Students
Information & Communication Services Division (ICS)

The Information & Communication Services Division (ICS) maintains a highly sophisticated data network and places a strong emphasis on facilities for students. All students have access to the network through PC labs, many of which are open 24 hours a day. All labs have laser printing facilities and consultants are on duty to assist students. Available software includes the standard office suites from our scanning, colour printing and linuxlab, Microsoft, as well as more specialised academic software packages such as Mathematica and SPSS. All students receive an e-mail address and have access to the Internet. Expert consultancy in advanced statistical and mathematical software packages is also available to postgraduates.

For further information, contact the ICS on:
Campus Telephone
Howard College, Edgewood and Medical School (031) 260 2481
Pietermaritzburg (033) 260 5635
Westville (031) 260 8131

Alternatively visit http://ict.ukzn.ac.za.

Driving Lessons
City Wise Driving School, based at Howard College Campus, offers driving lessons to staff and registered students from all UKZN campuses. For more information and to book lessons please telephone (031)260 2882

Libraries
The five campuses of the University of KwaZulu- Natal have excellent library collections. Qualified subject librarians provide general reference and instructional services to students, staff and the wider community. The libraries are fully computerised and operate in a networked environment that provides access to the computerised catalogues and a range of local, national and international databases. For further information refer to http://library.ukzn.ac.za.

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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