The University of Pretoria is nationally and internationally recognised for the quality of its research and the extent of its research outputs. The University’s long-term strategy, UP 2025, is built on more than 100 years of scholarship, research and public engagement in complex contexts that require ambitious targets and focused attention on some of the most pressing challenges of the developing and developed worlds.

The annual research reports and reviews published in recent years provide an overview of some of the University’s achievements over time, while its research networks and partnerships underscore the importance of collaboration in an increasingly global and complex world. 

The UP libraries maintain an extensive institutional repository of research, as well as of doctoral and master’s theses. This comprehensive electronic archive of the outcomes of research undertaken at UP is open to the public.