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| Spring time on George Campus |
Welcome to George Campus!
One look at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's George Campus is, to paraphrase a well-touted expression, worth a thousand pieces of marketing material.
George Campus must surely be South Africa's most beautiful campus nestled at the foot of the Outeniqua Mountains, amidst indigenous forests and commercial pine plantations and less than 10km from the coast on the Garden Route. The campus’s white-walled lecture halls and residences look out onto the majestic mountains, a nine-hole golf course and other sporting facilities ...
Such laid-back, serene surrounds are surely conducive for studying – if you remember that you are not on holiday.
But George Campus has so much more than a prime location and pristine surrounds in its favour.
It has an exciting future too captured in its strategic plan.
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| A new gymnasium is being build at a growing George Campus |
George Campus is set on becoming – within the greater NMMU brand – “knowledge change agents for a more sustainable future”. In simple language, this means that those who work and study at George Campus will be adding value to society through various “green” initiatives for the long-haul. These “green” initiatives cross all disciplines but particularly within its Natural Resource Management and Business and Economic Science programmes.
And, if all goes according to plan, with Prof Quinton Johnson at the helm as campus principal, the campus will one day be home to the international Global Leadership Institute for sustainable futures.
But let’s not jump ahead of ourselves since much work lies ahead.
In the interim, the plan focuses on increasing student numbers, improving the annual pass rate, improving business processes and increasing grants, publications and postgraduate numbers, strengthening its research and raising the bar for its sport and arts.
Just more than 1 300 students presently benefit from studying at George Campus, some 367km away from Port Elizabeth with NMMU’s five other campuses.
Given this knowledge and that George Campus also offers the following:
* Individual attention in a safe (and beautiful) environment
* close links with industry in providing you with practical experience
* Excellent facilities
* Sporting and cultural activities
* A natural “outdoor classroom”
Why wouldn’t these student numbers increase?
But why take my word for it? Next time you are travelling down the Garden Route, turn off to Saasveld just 7km from the town’s centre and see for yourself and perhaps you will consider becoming an exciting part of the George Campus future too.
And, if all goes according to plan, with Prof Quinton Johnson at the helm as campus principal, the campus will one day be home to the international Global Leadership Institute for sustainable futures.
But let’s not jump ahead of ourselves since much work lies ahead.
In the interim, the plan focuses on increasing student numbers, improving the annual pass rate, improving business processes and increasing grants, publications and postgraduate numbers, strengthening its research and raising the bar for its sport and arts.
Just more than 1 300 students presently benefit from studying at George Campus, some 367km away from Port Elizabeth with NMMU’s five other campuses.
Given this knowledge and that George Campus also offers the following:
* Individual attention in a safe (and beautiful) environment
* close links with industry in providing you with practical experience
* Excellent facilities
* Sporting and cultural activities
* A natural “outdoor classroom”
Why wouldn’t these student numbers increase?
But why take my word for it? Next time you are travelling down the Garden Route, turn off to Saasveld just 7km from the town’s centre and see for yourself and perhaps you will consider becoming an exciting part of the George Campus future too.
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| George Campus at the foot of the Outeniqua Mountains |
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