Nelson Mandela University

university in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Organization public_university Q1331614
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Summary

Nelson Mandela University is a public university[1]. It draws 538 Wikipedia views per month (public university category, ranking #243 of 933).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: South African National Library and Information Consortium[3], Association of African Universities[4]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Gqeberha[5]
  • Country: South Africa[6]
  • Instance of: open-access publisher[7], university[8], educational institution[9]
  • Named after: Nelson Mandela[10]
  • Headquarters location: Gqeberha[11]
  • Child organization or unit: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences[12], Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Faculty of Law[13]
  • Commons category: Nelson Mandela University[14]
  • Has part(s): Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Faculty of Health Sciences[15], Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Faculty of Arts[16], Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University – Faculty of Education[17], Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Faculty of Science[18], Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Faculty of Engineering Built Environment and Information Technology[19], Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Department of Chemistry[20]
  • Inception: 2005[21]
  • Official website: https://www.mandela.ac.za/[22]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Nelson Mandela University[23]
  • Web feed URL: https://news.mandela.ac.za/news?rss=news[24]
  • Employees: 2500[25]
  • Replaces: University of Port Elizabeth[26], Port Elizabeth Technikon[27]
  • Topic has template: Template:Nelson Mandela University[28]
  • Official name: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University[29]
  • Motto text: For Tomorrow[30]
  • Count of students: 27,000[31]
  • Language used: English[32]
  • Category for alumni of educational institution: Category:Nelson Mandela University alumni[33]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher[34]
  • Social media followers: 26,558[35], 25,285[36], 6960[37], 28,006[38], 8440[39], 29,082[40], 12,000[41], 14,300[42], 16,000[43], 17,700[44]

Why It Matters

Nelson Mandela University has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . relationshipscience.com. Retrieved . relationshipscience.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [4] ↑ . aau.org. Retrieved . aau.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . mandela.ac.za. Retrieved . mandela.ac.za. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [45] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [46] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Godfrey Emmanuel · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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