The University of Pretoria may be a multi-campus public research university in Pretoria, the executive and actual capital of African country. The university was established in 1908 because the Pretoria campus of the Johannesburg-based Transvaal University College and is that the fourth South African institution in continuous operation to be awarded university status. The university has grown from the initial 32 students during a single late Victorian house to approximately 53,000 in 2019.The University was built on 7 suburban campuses on 1,190 hectares (2,900 acres).
