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Rhodes University
Rhodes University
(
RU
or simply
Rhodes
) is a
public
research university
located in
Grahamstown
in the
Eastern Cape Province
of South Africa. It is one of four universities in the province. Established in 1904, Rhodes University is the province's oldest university, and it is the fifth or sixth oldest South African university in continuous operation, being preceded by the
University of the Free State
(1904),
University of Witwatersrand
(1896),
Stellenbosch University
(1866) and the
University of Cape Town
(1829). Rhodes was founded in 1904 as
Rhodes University College
, named after
Cecil Rhodes
, through a grant from the
Rhodes Trust
. It became a constituent college of the
University of South Africa
in 1918 before becoming an independent university in 1951.
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