Universities

AFDA

Private university: AFDA is South Africa's leading private higher education institution dedicated to training students for careers in film, television, live performance, creative writing and business innovation.

Boston City Campus

Private university: Boston City Campus is one of South Africa's largest private higher education institutions, delivering accredited higher certificates, diplomas, degrees and postgraduate qualifications through distance learning supported by a nationwide network of support centres.

Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)

Public university: CPUT is a public university of technology in Cape Town offering career-focused diploma and degree programmes, with this prospectus covering its Faculty of Business and Management Sciences.

Durban University of Technology (DUT)

Public university: Durban University of Technology is a multi-campus public university of technology in KwaZulu-Natal offering career-focused higher certificates, diplomas and technology-oriented bachelor's degrees across six faculties.

Eduvos

Private university: A private South African higher education institution with 12 campuses nationwide, offering accredited higher certificates, bachelor's degrees and postgraduate qualifications across the faculties of Applied Science, Commerce, Humanities, Information Technology and Law.

MANCOSA

Private university: MANCOSA is a private, distance-learning focused business school offering accredited undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications across South Africa and Namibia.

Nelson Mandela University (NMU)

Public university: A comprehensive public university based in Gqeberha and George, South Africa, offering higher certificates through to doctoral degrees across seven faculties.

North-West University (NWU)

Public university: North-West University (NWU) is a multi-campus South African public university spanning Mahikeng, Potchefstroom, and Vanderbijlpark, offering a broad range of undergraduate qualifications across health sciences, natural and agricultural sciences, commerce, humanities, education, engineering, law, and theology.

Regenesys Business School

Private university: A private, Sandton-headquartered business school with a pan-African footprint, whose course book is dominated by postgraduate and executive-education programmes but also includes a smaller set of undergraduate qualifications for school-leavers in business, law, public management, IT and education.

Regent Business School

Private university: A private Durban-headquartered business school, part of Honoris United Universities, offering higher certificates through postgraduate qualifications in commerce, management and related business fields across Southern Africa.

Rhodes University (RU)

Public university: Rhodes University is a small, research-intensive public university in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, known for its close-knit residential community and strong undergraduate teaching across six faculties.

Richfield Graduate Institute of Technology

Private university: Richfield is a private South African higher education institution offering online and on-campus Higher Certificates, Diplomas, and Bachelor's and postgraduate degrees across business and IT fields.

Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU)

Public university: SMU is South Africa's only stand-alone health sciences university, training doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and allied health professionals at its Ga-Rankuwa campus near Pretoria.

Sol Plaatje University (SPU)

Public university: A public university based in Kimberley, Northern Cape, offering a growing range of undergraduate programmes across education, economic and management sciences, humanities, and natural and applied sciences.

Stellenbosch University (SU)

Public university: Stellenbosch University is a leading South African public research university based in the Western Cape, offering a broad range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across ten faculties.

Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)

Public university: TUT is South Africa's largest residential university of technology, based in Pretoria, delivering career-oriented diplomas, higher certificates and technology-focused bachelor's degrees across seven faculties.

University of Cape Town

Public university: UCT is South Africa's oldest university and a leading African research institution offering a broad range of undergraduate degrees across six faculties in Cape Town.

University of Fort Hare

Public university: A public university headquartered in Alice, Eastern Cape, with a major campus in East London, historically significant as one of Africa's oldest institutions of higher learning and organised into faculties covering the humanities, science and agriculture, commerce, education, law and health sciences.

University of Johannesburg

Public university: A large, multi-campus public university in Johannesburg offering a broad range of undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications across eight faculties.

University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)

Public university: UKZN is a large public research university spread across five campuses in KwaZulu-Natal, offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes through four academic colleges.

University of Limpopo (UL)

Public university: A public university based in Sovenga (Mankweng), Limpopo, offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the faculties of Humanities, Management and Law, Science and Agriculture, and Health Sciences.

University of Mpumalanga (UMP)

Public university: A public university based in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, offering undergraduate programmes across agriculture and natural sciences, business and development studies, humanities, education and ICT.

University of Pretoria (UP)

Public university: One of South Africa's largest research-intensive universities, offering undergraduate and postgraduate study across nine faculties from its main campus in Hatfield, Pretoria.

University of South Africa (UNISA)

Public university: Unisa is Africa's largest open distance learning university, offering accredited undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications entirely by distance so students anywhere in South Africa (or abroad) can study without relocating or attending classes in person.

University of the Free State (UFS)

Public university: UFS is a public research-led university headquartered in Bloemfontein, offering undergraduate and postgraduate study across seven faculties on its Bloemfontein, Qwaqwa and South campuses.

University of the Western Cape

Public university: UWC is a public university based in Bellville, Cape Town, historically rooted in social justice and access to higher education, offering a broad range of undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications.

University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)

Public university: Wits is a research-intensive public university in the heart of Johannesburg, drawing on its mining-school origins to offer highly competitive undergraduate programmes across commerce, engineering, health sciences, humanities and science.

University of Venda (Univen)

Public university: A public university in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, offering undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications across health sciences, humanities and education, commerce and law, and science, engineering and agriculture.

University of Zululand (UNIZULU)

Public university: The University of Zululand (UNIZULU) is a comprehensive public university in KwaZulu-Natal offering undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications across commerce, science and agriculture, arts, and education.

Vaal University of Technology (VUT)

Public university: Vaal University of Technology (VUT) is a public university of technology in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, offering career-focused diplomas and a smaller number of bachelor's degrees across science, engineering, management and human sciences.

Walter Sisulu University (WSU)

Public university: A comprehensive public university in South Africa's Eastern Cape, offering career-focused diplomas and degrees from campuses in Mthatha, Butterworth, Buffalo City and Komani.