Rhodes University (informally Rhodes) is a university located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and is named after Cecil Rhodes. The university has an enrollment of over 5,500 undergraduate and graduate students, about 3,000 of whom live in residences on campus. The remaining students rent out flats or live in their own homes in the town. The university has six main faculties - commerce, education, humanities, law, pharm...
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Rhodes University (informally Rhodes) is a university located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and is named after Cecil Rhodes. The university has an enrollment of over 5,500 undergraduate and graduate students, about 3,000 of whom live in residences on campus. The remaining students rent out flats or live in their own homes in the town. The university has six main faculties - commerce, education, humanities, law, pharmacy and science - and over 30 different academic departments.
University education in the Eastern Cape began in the college departments of four schools: St Andrew’s, Grahamstown; Gill College, Somerset East; Graaff-Reinet College; and the Grey Institute in Port Elizabeth. The four St Andrew’s College professors, Arthur Matthews, George Cory, Stanley Kidd and GF Dingemans became founding professors of the Rhodes University College.
At the beginning of 1905, Rhodes moved from cramped quarters at St Andrew’s to the Drostdy building, which it...
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