List of South African universities by endowment explained

The following table is a list of South African universities by endowment size.

Public universities

The following are the South African universities with the largest financial endowments, expressed in South African Rands at fair value. A financial endowment is a transfer of money and/or property donated to an institution and the total value of an institution's investments is often referred to as the institution's endowment. All sources are official audited financial statements published in the respective fiscal years. For this list, short scale billions (thousand of millions) are used.

Institution	2011 million ZAR	2010 million ZAR	2009 million ZAR	2008 million ZAR
University of South Africa	R4,925^[1]	R4,526^[2]	R3,884^[3]	R3,481^[4]
University of Pretoria		R2,470 ^[5]	R2,166 ^[6]	R1,641 ^[7]
University of Cape Town	R2,548 ^[8]	R2,365 ^[9]	R2,173 ^[10]	R1,896 ^[11]
University of the Witwatersrand	R1,612^[12]	R1,588^[13]
University of Stellenbosch		R1,483^[14]
University of KwaZulu-Natal		R0,844^[15]	R0,769^[16]	R0,659^[17]
North-West University		R0,534^[18]	R0,390^[19]
Rhodes University	R0,310^[20]	R0,296^[21]		R0,429 ^[22]
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Central University of Technology
Durban University of Technology
University of Fort Hare
University of the Free State
University of Johannesburg
University of Limpopo
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Tshwane University of Technology
Vaal University of Technology
University of Venda
Walter Sisulu University for Technology and Science
University of the Western Cape
University of Zululand

See also

• List of universities in South Africa
• Lists of institutions of higher education by endowment size

Notes and References

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21. http://www.ru.ac.za/media/rhodesuniversity/content/finance/documents/Rhodes%20Annual%20Report%2031%20December%202011.pdf{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Consolidated Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2011 Retrieved 11 August 2012
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