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The University of Durban-Westville ( UDW) was a university situated in Westville, a town situated near Durban, South Africa, which opened in 1972. It is now one of the campuses of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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The University of Durban-Westville was established in the 1960s as the University College for Indians on Salisbury Island in Durban Bay. Student numbers throughout the 1960s were low as a result of the Congress Alliances policy of shunning apartheid structures.
Located within an environmental conservancy about 8 kilometres from the CBD of Durban and Pinetown, the Westville campus combines state of the art infrastructure with beautiful natural surroundings. The campus’s Hindu temple and an Islamic place of worship reflect its rich multicultural history.
It was formerly the site of the University of Durban-Westville before the 2004 merger. Westville offers a range of degrees, and will soon be the main home of the disciplines of commerce and management.
The University of Durban-Westville was initially created as an apartheid-era institution aimed at providing tertiary training for the South African Indian population. Over the years it has gone through three phases of transformation.
Study at UKZN, the College of Law and Management Studies offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the fields of Law, Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Information Technology, Public Governance, Marketing & Supply Chain, Business Science and Industrial Relations.
