List of universities in South Africa
Institution Founded Type Location ( s ) Medium
Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie 1987 Theological seminary Pretoria , Germiston Afr
Auckland Park Theological Seminary Theological seminary Johannesburg Eng
Baptist Theological College of Southern Africa 1951 Theological seminary Johannesburg Eng
Bible Institute of South Africa 1923 Non-denominational , reform , Protestant theological college Kalk Bay , Cape Town Eng
Cape Town Baptist Seminary 1976 Theological seminary Cape Town Eng
College of Transfiguration Anglican residential theological college Grahamstown Eng
Doxa Deo School of Divinity Theological seminary Eng
Evangelical Seminary of Southern Africa Theological education Pietermaritzburg Eng
George Whitefield College 1989 Theological seminary Cape Town Eng
Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary Methodist theological seminary Pietermaritzburg Eng
St Josephs Theological Institute Catholic theological institute Hilton , Kwazulu Natal Eng
South African Theological Seminary 1996 Distance education ( online ) theological seminary Johannesburg Eng
Private Degree-granting Seminaries , Institutes and Colleges -- Theological Seminaries
This is a list of universities in South Africa. For the purposes of this list, colleges and universities are defined as accredited, degree-granting, post-secondary institutions. As at September 2019 only South African public degree-granting institutions may call themselves a university, whereas other accredited private for-profit or not-for-profit degree-granting institutions tend to call themselves colleges, institutes or business schools. Some of these private institutions are local campuses of foreign universities. Degree-granting institutions (both public and private) must be registered with, and have their specific degree programs accredited by, the Council on Higher Education. In 2004 South Africa started reforming its public higher education system, merging and incorporating small public universities into larger institutions, and renaming all higher education institutions university (previously there had been several types of higher education institution). The country's universities and technikons which were incorporated with others and thus no longer exist are listed at the end of the article. Two new universities launched in 2013, Sol Plaatje University and the University of Mpumalanga. They are tentatively classified in the universities of technology category, pending clarification of their programs.