in addition to the mount pleasant campus, the university has facilities in several different locations throughout zimbabwe. in harare alone, uz has 46 buildings located outside the mount pleasant campus. the university's main satellite campus, located at the parirenyatwa hospital in central harare, houses the college of health sciences. besides the medical school, additional university properties within harare include blocks of flats for staff and student housing in the avenues, avondale, and mount pleasant. outside harare, uz has facilities in bulawayo, kariba, and teviotdale. the university operates the lake kariba research station, located in the nyamhunga suburb of kariba, mashonaland west, as well as the university of zimbabwe farm, also known as thornpark estate, which lies approximately 8 kilometers away from the mount pleasant campus, on mazowe road in teviotdale, mazowe district, mashonaland central. the farm, in size, is used by the uz faculty of agriculture for teaching and research. several of zimbabwe's newer universities began as colleges and satellite campuses of uz, such as bindura university of science education, chinhoyi university of technology, and zimbabwe open university.