Explore our diverse undergraduate programmes designed to prepare future healthcare, social, and related professionals to lead, innovate, and make a lasting impact.
Advance your healthcare career with our practice-orientated postgraduate qualifications, drawing from extensive academic, clinical, and research resources.
The Faculty of Health Sciences offers short learning programmes for busy professionals and students to acquire new skills and knowledge in a condensed timeframe.
The 2025 orientation include important information and activities designed to help incoming students, staff, and faculty members transition smoothly into the academic environment.
The Faculty consists of three schools with 11 departments, focussing on promoting health and social wellbeing through education, research, and community engagement.
Our Faculty advances patient-centered care, interprofessional education, and health research through collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches.
Our Faculty provides comprehensive support to staff and students for academic excellence. Learn more about the Faculty’s unique approach to guiding and inspiring a new generation of leaders.
Our mission goes beyond producing fit-for-purpose professionals and shaping the sectors we serve. Our Faculty is driving transformative change through stakeholder engagement and commitment to serving society.
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We are building a network of change agents committed to creating a better and more equitable society through partnerships and collaboration.
We foster and encourage engagement with communities, continuously exchanging knowledge and resources to promote sustainable outcomes, while working together to improve societal well-being and create transformative impacts in both academic and social practices
Transdisciplinary transcends traditional academic boundaries by integrating diverse perspectives, knowledge systems, and methodologies for holistic problem-solving. Internationalisation is promoted through partnerships that focus on a global student body, internationally oriented staff, curricula, and research, fostering a globally engaged university.
Emergency Medical Care lecturers Travis Trower and Jean Rossouw recently participated in an advanced flood response capacity-building programme in Monkey Bay, Malawi.
South Africa’s education system has long been measured by matric pass rates and Bachelor passes. While these metrics are useful, they often mask a deeper issue: the distinction between meeting minimum requirements and achieving excellence.
Nelson Mandela University heartily congratulates the matric class of 2024 on their outstanding pass rate of 87.3%. Not only is the pass rate an exceptional achievement, but a historic feat as the country recorded its highest number of matric passes at more than 615 000 learners.
Thousands of university students may face sleepless nights due to money worries as they start their academic year.