A sizable residential university in Johannesburg is called the University of the Witwatersrand, or Wits for short. In the years and decades that followed its modest beginnings, the University would go on to become a recognized center for higher education and research, producing alumni with international acclaim in many fields, including Nobel laureates.

The excellent Wits University is well known for its commitment to social justice, excellent research, and high academic standards.

The primary goal of any institution is to promote independent thought and the search for knowledge and the truth. In this position, Wits has built a reputation for itself by establishing itself as a top-tier teaching and research institution in the commercial and industrial core of South Africa. Wits’ mission is to build on this foundation while acknowledging its current obligations in South Africa, as well as to maintain and strengthen its position as a premier institution of higher learning in those countries as well as throughout Africa and the rest of the world by upholding internationally competitive standards of excellence in research, teaching, and learning. Wits University is pleased to fill that role both locally and internationally. It satisfies the changing needs of a democratic South Africa and, from its central location in Gauteng, celebrates and represents the cultural diversity of the region. It has attracted foreign students and scholars because to its solid academic reputation and unwavering commitment to fighting social injustice.