Business model

NWU BUSINESS MODEL

Academic and support staff (human capital)

Personnel category	Permanent	Temporary	2023	2024
Crafts/trades			23	24
Crafts/trades			117	21
Executive/administration/management professional			91	93
Executive/administration/management professional			6	5
Instructional/research professional			1 692	1 696
Instructional/research professional			1 815	1 803
Non-professional administration			1 352	1 366
Non-professional administration			4 890	4 587
Service			295	283
Service			8	10
Specialised/support professional			532	548
Specialised/support professional			334	300
Technical			251	256
Technical			117	90
Grand total			11 523	11 082

Expertise:

59,08%

of permanent academic staff with PhDs.

Presenting

916

academic programmes
(intellectual capital)
Number of academic programmes

834

Schools reached by our student recruiters through direct marketing campaigns and activities
(social and relationship capital)

13 205

First-time entering undergraduate students
(human capital)

Total number of enrolments per qualification type (human capital)

Budget (financial capital)

Over

R326 million

Spent on capital works, macro maintenance and minor works across the university (manufactured capital)

1 110 hectares

(incl. 1401ha Molewane) The total area occupied by the university’s campuses (natural capital)

12,3%
Increase

in total assets

486 122.026
square metres

The total usable floor area of the NWU

Activities strengthening our financial capital

R'000 000
Presenting 916 academic programmes (intellectual capital)	Income from contracts	181
	Sales of goods and services and other income	321
	Residences and related income	492
	Private gifts and grants	34
	Investment income	692
	Consolidated income from subsidiaries	13
	Total for 3rd stream income from activities	1 733 million

Total number of graduates per qualification type (human capital)

2024 graduates: educational subjects matter distribution (human capital)

Research output 2023* (intellectual capital)
Journal articles	1372,1
Conference proceedings	106,5
Books and chapters	276,2
Total article equivalents published	1754,8
Master’s degrees conferred	750
Research master’s	547,523
Research master’s weighted	547,523
Doctoral degrees conferred	277
Doctoral degrees weighted	831
Total weighted research output	3133,323
Postdoctoral fellows	206
Publication units per permanent academic staff member	1,04

* Please note that there is a two-year lag with regard to the research output.

65,61%

Percentage of graduates who completed their studies in minimum time.

R281 million

We contributed R281 million (2023: R250 million) for student bursaries, which is 7% of the total funds allocated for financial aid.

R46.8 million

(16%) of the funds allocated to financial aid used to award students for academic performances.

95.5%

Success rate of the NWU merit bursary holders

COLLABORATION

(social and relationship capital)

We had

2 688

active agreements and memoranda of understanding

FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

(financial capital)

R1 220,6 million

Net surplus for 2024, as reflected in the consolidated
statement of comprehensive income

OUTCOMES

Our consistent achievements in global rankings have placed us among the cream of the crop of international universities. The Global 200 list of the Center of World University Rankings (CWUR) placed the NWU among the top 4,2% of the world’s best universities for their 2024 edition. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings ranked the NWU among the top seven universities in South Africa, and the university was also among the top seven local universities in the 2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).