Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Wits School of Mining Engineering
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- School of Mining Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1922-
History
The origins of Wits University lie in the South African (Kimberley) School of Mines established in 1896. The School was relocated to Johannesburg as the Transvaal Technical Institute in 1904 and renamed the South African School of Mines and Technology in 1910. It changed its name four times before becoming the University of the Witwatersrand in 1922.
Today the School of Mining Engineering at the University of Witwatersrand is recognised as one of the largest mining engineering programmes in the world.