Explore our diverse undergraduate programmes designed to prepare future healthcare, social, and related professionals to lead, innovate, and make a lasting impact.
Advance your healthcare career with our practice-orientated postgraduate qualifications, drawing from extensive academic, clinical, and research resources.
The Faculty of Health Sciences offers short learning programmes for busy professionals and students to acquire new skills and knowledge in a condensed timeframe.
Curious about becoming a nurse, paramedic, lab scientist or other healthcare professional? Join us for Open Day 2025 and discover real stories, hands-on experiences, and study options in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
The Faculty consists of three schools with 11 departments, focussing on promoting health and social wellbeing through education, research, and community engagement.
Our Faculty advances patient-centered care, interprofessional education, and health research through collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches.
Our Faculty provides comprehensive support to staff and students for academic excellence. Learn more about the Faculty’s unique approach to guiding and inspiring a new generation of leaders.
Our mission goes beyond producing fit-for-purpose professionals and shaping the sectors we serve. Our Faculty is driving transformative change through stakeholder engagement and commitment to serving society.
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We are building a network of change agents committed to creating a better and more equitable society through partnerships and collaboration.
We foster and encourage engagement with communities, continuously exchanging knowledge and resources to promote sustainable outcomes, while working together to improve societal well-being and create transformative impacts in both academic and social practices
Transdisciplinary transcends traditional academic boundaries by integrating diverse perspectives, knowledge systems, and methodologies for holistic problem-solving. Internationalisation is promoted through partnerships that focus on a global student body, internationally oriented staff, curricula, and research, fostering a globally engaged university.
Nelson Mandela University first-year medical students stepped out in funky and mismatched socks last week as part of the #CrazySocks4Docs movement. The global #CrazySocks4Docs is an annual event on the first Friday in June that highlights the importance of mental health awareness within the healthcare community.
Reflecting on five decades of excellence, Nelson Mandela University’s Faculty of Health Sciences, celebrated their 50th anniversary of nursing education.
Staff and postgraduate students from Michigan State University (MSU) recently visited Missionvale Campus, including Dr Kenya Messer and Dr Matthew R Wawrzynski. Dr Wawrzynski has already visited Mandela University nine times.
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