
Hunter Douglas Award at the Archiprix International Recent awards won by architecture students include:Īfrica and Middle East Region's Holcim Next Generation Award for post-graduate students The QS World University Rankings ranks the faculty as follows: Year Reputation and ranking League table rankings


The framework provides students with an education stressing engineering fundamentals set in the context of Conceiving - Designing - Implementing - Operating real-world systems and products. The CDIO Initiative (CDIO is an initialism for Conceive - Design - Implement - Operate) is an innovative educational framework for producing the next generation of engineers. Accreditation and affiliations Įngineering programmes are accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and recognised internationally through the Washington Accord in Australia, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, China, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

The Graduate School of Technology Management offers the postgraduate programmes in the fields of technology, management, project management, engineering management, life cycle managementand asset management. The School of Information Technology offers the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the fields of computer science, informatics and information science. The School for the Built Environment offers the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in architecture, landscape architecture, interior Architecture, quantity surveying, construction management, and town and regional Planning. Materials science and metallurgical engineering, mechanical and aeronautical engineering, mining engineering and the postgraduate only engineering and technology management programmes. The School of Engineering offers the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in chemical engineering, civil and biosystems engineering, electrical, electronic and computer engineering, industrial and systems engineering, The Department of Architecture was officially established 1943. On 4 March 1908 when the Transvaal University College (TUC) transferred its arts and science courses to its newly established Pretoria Campus the precursor to the university was established, initially offering courses in languages, sciences, and law. In 1906 the Transvaal Technical Institute changed its name to the Transvaal University College. In 1902 after the signing of the Peace of Vereeniging, the Normal College for teacher training was established in Groenkloof, Pretoria and in 1904 the Transvaal Technical Institute, with emphasis on mining education, opened in Johannesburg. The proposal for a university for the capital, first mooted in the Volksraad in 1889, was interrupted by the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War in 1899. 4 Student activities and community engagement.
