Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
University · Social Services · reports to Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)
Nelson Mandela University is a public comprehensive university in Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape. It was formed in 2005 by merging the University of Port Elizabeth, the Port Elizabeth Technikon and the local campus of Vista University, and was known as the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University until it shortened its name in 2017.
As a comprehensive university it offers both academic degrees and vocational qualifications. Its faculties include Business and Economic Sciences, Education, Engineering the Built Environment and Technology, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, and Science.
It operates several campuses in Gqeberha along with a campus in George in the Western Cape. Its medical school, opened in 2021, was the first new medical school in South Africa in several decades.
Audit record, 5 years
Leadership, 9 listed
- Chancellor
- Dr Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor
- Vice Chancellor
- Dr Sibongile Muthwa
- Deputy Vice Chancellors
- Prof Azwinndini Muronga Azwinndini Muronga Mr Luthando Jack Prof Andre Keet Dr Muki Moeng
- Registrar
- Mr Edgar de Koker
- Senior Management
- Dr Sibusiso Mchunu Mr Mike Monaghan
Description written for this directory from the entity’s own published sources: www.mandela.ac.za