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  2. University of the Witwatersrand - Wikipedia

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    The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (/ v ə t ˈ v ɑː t ə s r ɑː n t /), commonly known as Wits University or Wits, is a multi-campus public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg, South Africa. The university has its roots in the mining industry, as do Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand in ...

  3. Campuses of the University of the Witwatersrand - Wikipedia

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    East Campus is home to most of the more historic buildings at Wits. The Gavin Reilly Green on West Campus. When, in 1922, the University College, Johannesburg was granted full University status as the University of the Witwatersrand, a site in Milner Park in Braamfontein was donated to the new university by the Johannesburg municipality. [1]

  4. University Wits - Wikipedia

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    The University Wits is a phrase used to name a group of late 16th-century English playwrights and pamphleteers who were educated at the universities (Oxford or Cambridge) and who became popular secular writers. Prominent members of this group were Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas Lodge ...

  5. University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Science - Wikipedia

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    www.wits.ac.za /science. The Faculty of Science is one of the faculties of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, located in TW Kambule Mathematical Sciences Building on West Campus. The Dean of the Faculty is Professor Nithaya Chetty. [1] The Faculty offers undergraduate Bachelor of Science (BSc) degrees, and postgraduate Honours ...

  6. Student loans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As of 2021, approximately 7.8 million Americans from 18 to 25 carry student loan debt, with an average balance of almost $15,000. [64] For adults between the ages of 35 and 49, the average individual balance owed exceeded $42,000. The average debt for adults between 50 and 61 is slightly lower.

  7. Witwatersrand Gold Rush - Wikipedia

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    The gold rush saw massive development of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand, and the area today is the prime metropolitan area of South Africa. One consequence of the gold rush was the construction of the first railway lines in this part of Africa. As a result of the rapid development of the goldfields on the Witwatersrand in the 1880s and the ...

  8. Student affairs - Wikipedia

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    Student affairs, student support, or student services is the department or division of services and support for student success at institutions of higher education to enhance student growth and development. [1] People who work in this field are known as student affairs educators, student affairs practitioners, or student affairs professionals ...

  9. University of Cambridge - Wikipedia

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    Writers to have studied at the university include the Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe, his fellow University Wits, Thomas Nashe, and Robert Greene, arguably the first professional authors in England, and John Fletcher who collaborated with Shakespeare on The Two Noble Kinsmen, Henry VIII, and the lost Cardenio and succeeded him as ...