Facts about NMMU:
- located on a 720-hectare nature reserve at the water's edge (main campus)
- there are six campuses that merged from different institutions into one seven years ago. Most are within an hour of each other, the George campus is in the mountains and a five hour drive away
- 27,000 students
- 307 programs
- 130 career paths
- largest percentage of students study business and economics
- the staff/faculty is 58.2% White; 23.9% Black, 14.2% Coloured, and 3.8% Indian
- the staff/faculty is 46.9% male and 53.1% female
-the students are 59.8% Black, 24.2% White, 14% Coloured, and 2% Indian
- the students are 46.1% male and 53.9% female
- they have an award winning YouTube flash mob video at www.youtube.com/NMMUonTube
-5,232 students graduated in 2011
-instead of having any fully online courses, NMMU offers several blended courses (courses are called modules here)
- 8% of students are from outside South Africa (most from other African countries)
- the six core values are diversity, excellence, Ubuntu, integrity, environment, and responsibility
- the term "faculty" would be the equivalent to one college within a university, such as faculty of science (college of science). Professors are formally called Academic Staff
- all staff, regardless of university role, can belong to the same labor union
- 7.3% of students are considered distance students
- 13.2% of students are postgraduate students (grad students or doing one year honors)
- there are approx 3,245 temporary and permanent staff
- the mascot is a dolphin
- the slogan is "for tomorrow"
New state of the art "green library" at Missionvale campus
North campus
Thanks for the background on NMMU. I confess that my favorite parts are the flash mob video and the fact that the mascot is the fearsome dolphin. Or, maybe in South Africa "fearsome" isn't the point of a mascot!
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