Durban Institute of Technology
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| Type | Public University of Technology |
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| Established | 2002 |
| Vice-Chancellor | Professor Thandwa Mthembu |
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Administrative staff
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2647 |
| Students | 29,469 |
| Location | Durban & Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa |
| Website | http://www.dut.ac.za/ |
The Durban University of Technology (DUT) is a leading University of Technology in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. It was formed in 2002 following the merger of Technikon Natal and ML Sultan Technikon and it was initially known as the Durban Institute of Technology. It has five campuses in Durban, and two in Pietermaritzburg. In 2017, around 29 496 students were enrolled. It is one of 5 technical institutions on the continent to offer Doctoral Degrees. The current Chancellor is Judge Vuka Tshabalala, former Judge President of Kwazulu-Natal.
The Durban University of Technology is a result of the merger in April 2002 of two technikons, ML Sultan and Technikon Natal. It was named the Durban Institute of Technology and later became the Durban University of Technology in late 2007.
KwaZulu-Natal’s Indian population began arriving in the 1860s to work on the sugar plantations. In 1927, those with no educational qualifications were threatened with repatriation. This threat stimulated adult classes in literacy, as well as a range of commercial subjects, held in a mission school and a Hindu institute, but it was not until after the war, and thanks to substantial financial support from the public, that M L Sultan College came into being. It would be another decade, however, before the city council, now preoccupied with the structures of the first Group Areas Act of 1950, allocated suitable land for a permanent campus.
The Natal Technical College was founded in 1907 and immediately began providing tuition to more than 350 part-time students. The structures of apartheid as it was codified through legislation weighed heavily on this institution as well. In 1955 the college was taken over by national education authorities; and in 1967 it became an exclusively white institution.
The DUT student body elects a Student Representative Council annually.[2].
In 2017, the university employed 631 academic staff, 49 percent of them female and 48 percent holding masters and 22 percent doctoral degrees.
Professor Thandwa Mthembu is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of DUT. Some of the other senior members of the leadership team include:
The six faculties include:
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