University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town

 

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is South Africa’s oldest university and one of the continent’s premier teaching and research institutions.

Its more than 100,000 alumni include the late Professor Christiaan Barnard, a world-renowned heart surgeon, as well as three Nobel laureates, Sir Aaron Klug, the late Professor Alan MacLeod Cormack, and JM Coetzee.

UCT also has over 80 specialist research units that supervise postgraduate studies. It is home to more than one-third of South Africa’s A-rated researchers, who are considered world leaders in their fields.

 

 

UCT’s Communication and Marketing Department (CMD) has published a series of fact sheets that focus on the university’s six faculties:

• Commerce
• Engineering & the Built Environment
• Health Sciences
• Humanities (currently being updated)
• Law
• Science.

 

Fact sheets are also available for:

• Centre for Higher Education Development
• Graduate School of Business.

 

Please visit the Students website for more information on, or for, the following:

• Prospective students
• Student life
• Support
• Services
• Studying at UCT

 

Please visit the International Hub website for information on international students and for exchange opportunities for local UCT students.

Please visit the Department of Student Affairs website for information on the following:

• Student Housing
• Orientation
• Student Wellness