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GLOBAL FOOTPRINT

Berlin alumni event held
in June 2023

merger institutions. To date, we have
202 from China, 127 from Germany,
56 from North America, 52 from India,
49 from UK, 33 from Netherlands,
22 from Sweden, 19 from France, 15
from Iran, 15 from Vietnam, 13 from
Israel, nine from Pakistan, three each
from Russia and Peru, and one each
from Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and
Ukraine. From Africa we have 1 975
alumni from Zimbabwe, 1 588 from
Botswana, 1 042 from Zambia, 941
from Namibia, 350 from Kenya, 294
from Nigeria, 280 from Uganda, 123
from Mauritius, 38 from Rwanda, and
one from Mauritania. The full list is
available on our website.
contact details in order to get institutional news such as Please note that these numbers reflect the citizenship of
latest developments, new programmes and events. Online the graduates. The number of alumni in the countries across
and hybrid meetings and events have increased global the world constantly changes due to migration.
participation to a certain extent, but time zones remain a Reasons given by international/study abroad alumni and
factor to consider. Alumni can use our online platform to students as to why they wanted to study at Mandela vary
update their details. enormously. Some say it is because of what Nelson Mandela
There are too many countries to mention but we can give represents globally, while others say they wanted to study
you an idea of the diverse spread of international alumni somewhere in Africa and South Africa has top universities.
who studied at Mandela University, including our pre- There are those who base their decision on the academic

ALUMNI QUALIFICATIONS

23.9% 3.8% 1
graduates have graduates have one individual has
two qualifications three qualifications seven qualifications

Our statistics up to April 2023
show that we have conferred
178 551 13 637
qualifications have been qualifications were
178 551 qualifications of which conferred on
conferred on
international
169 908 have been conferred 127 718
on South Africans, many now living individuals students
in countries around the world.

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