2018

IABC

International Gold Quill Merit Award: Website Re-launch Awareness Campaign

MACE

Bronze award: Videography Skills: Exam Hack video

Gold awards (winner of each category):
- Design for Visual Media: UFS Women’s Month Billboard
- Design for Digital Media: KovsieLife Student Web Design
- Photography: Feature and Documentary: Africa Month Photographs

Platinum award (winner of each division):
- General Campaigns: Website Re-launch Awareness Campaign

Severus Cerff award: For the institution who showed the most consistency in communication excellence

2017

MACE

Gold Awards:
- UFS 2017 Winter Graduation Ceremonies Communication Strategy
- Student Newsletter

Excellence Awards:
- UFS Rector’s inauguration and welcoming ceremonies

Merit Awards:
- Dumela newsletter
- Visitor’s Guide
- Wayde van Niekerk Campaign
- Qwaqwa Campus Open Day video
- KovsieGear Qwaqwa: Live the brand and set the trend
- Schools Marketing Video
- Corporate Profile and UFS Fingertips brochures

IABC

- International Gold Quill Merit Award for the publication, For such a time as this: A commemorative journey
- International Gold Quill Merit Award the communication process with prospective students through the Sound[W]right: UFS student tone and voice project
- Africa Silver Quill Award for UFS 2017 Winter Graduation Ceremonies Communication Strategy

African Excellence Awards:
- Top three: Video on the Internet Broadcast Project

Related article:
UFS Communication and Brand Management wins for the third time in the 2017 International Gold Quill Awards
UFS departments receive recognition for quality work from MACE

2016

MACE

- Severus Cerff Award for demonstrating consistent and outstanding excellence in the 2016 Excellence Awards Programme
- Platinum award for the KovsieGear merchandise shop

Gold Awards:
- Tone and Voice project: Sound[W]right: UFS student tone and voice project
- Spaces and Places Video- Student Bursary Fund Campaign: Photographs 
- Facilitation of the review of the UFS Language Policy

Excellence Awards:
- Student Bursary Fund Campaign: Video
- Expanded Footprints Publication

Merit Awards:
- Ke Eo Taba Qwaqwa Newsletter
- For such a time as this: A commemorative journey

African Excellence Awards

- Gold: BSafe Take Action campaign
- Top five: Awareness campaign on the requirements of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS)
- Top five: KovsieGear Merchandise shop

PRISA

- PRISM Gold Award from Public Relations of Southern Africa (PRISA) for the UFS KovsieGear merchandise shop

Related articles:
UFS scoops up MACE special award for consistent excellence
UFS Communication and Brand Management Department once again honoured for ground-breaking

2015

MACE

Merit Awards:

- #UFStoday photo campaign
- NSFAS information campaign

PRISA

PRISM Gold Award from Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa (PRISA) for the BSafe Take Action safety campaign

IABC

- International Gold Quill Excellence Award for the social media campaign, UFS #FaceOfFacebook
- International Gold Quill Merit Award for the BSafe Take Action campaign
- Africa Gold Quill Excellence Award for the social media campaign, UFS #FaceOfFacebook
- Africa Gold Quill Merit Award for the BSafe Take Action campaign

International Business (Stevie) awards

- Bronze Stevie award for the social media campaign, UFS #FaceOfFacebook
- Bronze Stevie award for the BSafe Take Action campaign

Related articles:
UFS Communication and Brand Management receives two prestigious international awards
Kovsies proud of a gold PRISM Award for safety campaign

2014

The department conducted a Stakeholder Perception Audit during February 2014, which received the following international awards:
-      Jake Wittmer Research Award from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC);
-      Merit award from the IABC in the category Communication Research and Management;
-      2014 IABC Africa Gold Quill Award;
-      Finalist in the Golden World Awards (GWA) of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA)
-      Bronze medal from the International Business Association (IBA).

IBA

The Bult magazine received a bronze medal.

MACE

Excellence Awards:
- Internet Broadcast Project (category: audiovisual)
- UFS #FaceOfFacebook social media campaign (category: social media)
- BSafe Take Action campaign (category: integrated campaigns)

Merit Awards:
- Redesign of the UFS website (category: electronic media)
- No Student Hungry media campaign (category: media)

2013

The UFS was recognised by the United Nations (UN) as well as by the National Association for Marketing, Advancement, and Communication in Education (MACE), for its communication and marketing publications and campaigns. The university was named by representatives of the UN to receive a special United Nations Award for a leadership communication campaign called ‘Talk to me’. The award, which forms part of the Golden Awards of the International
 Public Relations Association (IPRA), is made annually to the campaign that best supports human development in line with the UN objectives.

MACE

Excellence Awards:
-        The ‘Talk to me’ campaign (category: integrated campaigns and projects)
-        The magazine Bult received a special Excellence Award in the category external publications (as the publication with the highest marks in the history of this award ceremony)

Merit Award:
-        The staff newsletter Dumela (category: internal newsletters)

Related article:
Recognition from the United Nations and MACE

2011

MACE

Excellence Award:
- The staff newsletter Dumela (category: internal newsletter)

2010

ACU

Honourable Mention:
- Corporate Publications (staff newsletter Dumela)