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</div> <div class="section-foot"> <a href="https://wits100.wits.ac.za/" class="button">Wits 100</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section><section class="infographics--wrapper "> <div class="infographics--row content-row"> <div class="infographics--card"> <a href=""> <img src="/media/general-use-assets/promo-boxes-400x400/Agapanthus-Great-Hall-400-x-400.jpg" alt="Agapanthus flower in front of Great Hall" /> <div class="infographics--card-content overlay wits-blue-50"> <p class="text">Top 1% in the world (out of about 25 000 universities). Equivalent to top 10 in Canada and Australia, top 30 in the UK and top 65 in the EU and US.</p> </div> </a> </div> <div class="infographics--card"> <a href=""> <img src="/media/wits-university/faculties-and-schools/humanities/images/Humanities_1 (1).png" alt="" /> <div class="infographics--card-content overlay wits-blue-50"> <p class="text">The Faculty of Humanities is ranked no 1 in Africa (QS)</p> </div> </a> </div> <div class="infographics--card"> <a href=""> <img src="/media/wits-university/research/gcsri/aas1.jpg" alt="Researcher holding flask Photo by Chokniti Khongchum from Pexels" /> <div class="infographics--card-content overlay wits-blue-50"> <p class="text">Top 100 in Health and Clinical Medicine</p> </div> </a> </div> <div class="infographics--card"> <a href=""> <img src="/media/wits-university/home-page/Wits-Great-Hall-with-banners.jpg" alt="Wits Great Hall with blue and gold banners" /> <div class="infographics--card-content overlay wits-blue-50"> <p class="text">So far, Wits has produced 4 Nobel Laureates, 91 Rhodes Scholars, 4 National Planning Commissioners, 32 Mandela Rhodes Scholars, and 2 Chief Justices.</p> </div> </a> </div> </div> <div class="infographics--row content-row"> <div class="infographics--card"> <a href=""> <img src="/media/wits-university/news-and-events/images/curiosity/issue-12/Professor-Roger-Deane_2200x800px.jpg" alt="Professor Roger Deane, outh African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)/National Research Foundation Chair in Radio Astronomy in the School of Physics" /> <div class="infographics--card-content overlay wits-blue-50"> <p class='text'>1500 academics</p> </div> </a> </div> <div class="infographics--card"> <a href=""> <img src="/media/wits-university/home-page/Wits-Wits-Great-Hall-strelitizias-in-foreground-1200-x-500.jpg" alt="Wits Great Hall" /> <div class="infographics--card-content overlay wits-blue-50"> <p class='text'>6000 employees</p> </div> </a> </div> <div class="infographics--card"> <a href=""> <img src="/media/wits-university/faculties-and-schools/health-sciences/clinical-medicine/surgery/images/banner5.jpg" alt="" /> <div class="infographics--card-content overlay wits-blue-50"> <p class='text'>2500 joint staff</p> </div> </a> </div> <div class="infographics--card"> <a href=""> <img src="/media/wits-university/about-wits/images/Student-painting-400-x-400.jpg" alt="Student painting" /> <div class="infographics--card-content overlay wits-blue-50"> <p class='text'>41 000 students</p> </div> </a> </div> </div> </section><section class="highlights-slider--section wits-dark-blue"> <div class="highlights-slider--section-top"> <div class="highlights-slider--navigation"></div> <div class="highlights-slider--content"> <p class="heading">More about Wits</p> </div> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-wrapper"> <div class="highlights-slider--slides"> <a href="/about-wits/history-and-heritage/"> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-img"> <img src="/media/wits-university/centenary/images/priorities/Panorama-view-of-Braamfontein-campus.png" alt="Panorama view of Braamfontein campus taken by Shivan Parusnath" /> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-text"> <p>We are situated in Johannesburg, the economic and industrial heartland of the African continent. Our history is linked to mining, political and civic activism, and the development of Johannesburg.</p> </div> </a> </div><div class="highlights-slider--slides"> <a href="/about-wits/vision-and-mission/"> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-img"> <img src="/media/wits-university/alumni/website-images-2021/Witshistoryprotest.jpg" alt="" /> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-text"> <p>An open public university, we cherish academic freedom and pursue the truth. We uphold no distinctions of class, wealth, race or creed. We are committed to academic and research excellence.</p> </div> </a> </div><div class="highlights-slider--slides"> <a href="/about-wits/facts-and-figures/notable-people/"> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-img"> <img src="/media/wits-university/alumni/centenary/illustriousalumni.jpg" alt="Images: Molecular Sciences Institute, Getty, Nobel Foundation" /> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-text"> <p>Wits is the home of four Nobel Prize Winners: Nelson Mandela (Peace), Sydney Brenner (Medicine), Nadine Gordimer (Literature) and Aaron Klug (Chemistry).</p> </div> </a> </div><div class="highlights-slider--slides"> <a href="/research/"> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-img"> <img src="/media/wits-university/research/coe-pal/images/genus-impact-feeature-image.png" alt="" /> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-text"> <p>We are home to 56 research entities, 12 donor-sponsored research chairs, 30 South African Research Chairs, 6 Centres of Excellence, and 434 National Research Foundation-rated researchers.</p> </div> </a> </div><div class="highlights-slider--slides"> <a href="/future/"> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-img"> <img src="/media/wits-university/test/soap/images-test/Wits Light Lab.jpg" alt="" /> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-text"> <p>96% of Wits’ research is published in international, peer-reviewed high-impact journals. Our researchers and innovators are collaborating to leverage the next level of discovery research.</p> </div> </a> </div><div class="highlights-slider--slides"> <a href="https://arua.org.za/"> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-img"> <img src="/media/wits-university/about-wits/images/telescope.jpg" alt="" /> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-text"> <p>We have over 50 active projects around Africa and the University is represented globally through various partnerships. Wits is also the co-founder of the African Research Universities Alliance.</p> </div> </a> </div><div class="highlights-slider--slides"> <a href="/alumni/distinguished-graduates/"> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-img"> <img src="/media/wits-university/alumni/images/website-images/1200x500_Slide-Header-Image_FamousAlumni_1.jpg" alt="Notable Alumni Tobias" /> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-text"> <p>Wits has produced over 200 000 alumni. Amongst them are many illustrious artists, lawyers, politicians, business leaders, accountants and scientists. 50 Alumni have been awarded prestigious National Orders by the Presidency since 1994.</p> </div> </a> </div><div class="highlights-slider--slides"> <a href=""> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-img"> <img src="/media/wits-university/home-page/Undergaduate-students-credit-Shivan-Parusnath.png" alt="Electrical and Information Engineering students 漏 Shivan Parusnath" /> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-text"> <p>Female students make up to 57% of our student body. Almost 50% of our students are the first in their family to attend a university. Postgraduate students now make up almost 40% of Wits students. </p> </div> </a> </div><div class="highlights-slider--slides"> <a href="https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/research-news/2020/2020-06/the-first-covid-19-vaccine-trial-in-south-africa-begins.html"> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-img"> <img src="/media/wits-university/news-and-events/images/covid-19/Covid-19-vaccine_600x300px.jpg" alt="Covid-19 vaccine" /> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-text"> <p>Wits established the first clinical trial in South Africa and on the continent for a Covid-19 vaccine in 2020, one of many firsts in our 100 year history. </p> </div> </a> </div><div class="highlights-slider--slides"> <a href="https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/research-news/2021/2021-10/new-surgical-skills-lab-to-train-specialists-and-sub-specialists.html"> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-img"> <img src="/media/wits-university/giving-to-wits/images/2020/Wits-Medical-School-students.png" alt="Students from the Faculty of Health Sciences at Wits" /> </div> <div class="highlights-slider--slides-text"> <p>Wits trains the highest number of medical specialists and sub-specialists in South Africa. 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